The sound of heaven - Wuding Yi wine song

Wuding is located in the northeast of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, and is the residence of the Luo Wu tribe of the "head of the thirty-seven tribes" of the Historical Xiongguan Yunnan Wuman, so it is also known as the hometown of Luo Wu. Because of its long history and magnificent culture, it is known as the "highest area of Yi culture in eastern China". The Yi people here are called fire-like peoples, and fire-like peoples also have fire-like enthusiasm.

The Han people are expensive in tea, the Yi people are expensive in wine, drinking and singing, there is a Wuding Yi wine song. Wuding Yi wine song is an ancient folk art, it has a thousand years of singing process, is an important symbol of Wuding Yi culture. In the territory of Wuding County, there are 6 major Branches of the Yi ethnic group, such as Naluo, Naisu and Close, and the wine song of the Yi nationality has also become an important bridge for exchanges and communication between the various branches of the Yi ethnic group and the promotion of friendship. Wuding Yi wine song in the form of colloquial language, wine song is rich in content, containing history, farming, sacrifice, religion, food and many other cultural connotations, it contains the Yi people's etiquette exchanges, ethnic migration, customs and habits and other cultural information, for the study of Yi culture has played a great role.

The accompaniment instruments of Yi wine songs are generally three strings, flutes, leaves (blowing leaves), erhu, horns, sheepskin drums, the most common instrument is the flute, these instruments and wine song ensemble can be described as a natural sound.

The Wuding Yi wine song uses wine as the carrier and uses songs to convey affection. Most of the Yi people live in the Yi family cottage at a high altitude, when the distant guests come, the enthusiastic Yi girls will pour their home-brewed rice wine into the horns, a group of girls at the entrance of the village with horn wine, singing Yi wine songs, blocking the road, guests can only drink the horn wine in the hands of the Yi family girls to enter, this wine is called Yi Mountain Gate Wine. This also has the Yishan gate tone and the welcome tune, "Yi family guests come today" singing "the flute pair blows out, the wine altar comes out, the roadside lantana is bright red, the Yi family guests come today", the Yi people express their welcome to the distant guests by replacing the language with wine songs. The Yi family has a fire pond at home, when relatives and friends come to the house, everyone sits around the fire pond, chats and laughs and sings wine songs on the edge of the fire pond, which has a fire pond wine song, such as the lyrics in "Let's Come Together", "Today is a good day, I miss my relatives and friends like thirst, today we finally got together, sat around the fire pond to drink wine and sing the song of thought", through singing to express the joy of relatives and friends to be guests. When relatives and friends want to leave, the Yi compatriots who send guests will sing with cow horn wine and sing "take a step and look at the eyes, which is willing to give you, go is to go, give up is reluctant" to express the inner reluctance. There is a kind of Yi wine song in the Yi language called "Nanga", Chinese means that the other party sings what to follow the answer, belongs to a way of singing, in some wedding banquet occasions, you can see men and women sitting separately, women sit on one side, men sit on the side, around the wine table singing, men sing to women's harmony, this singing can be sung until dawn the next day, everyone with wine to help, to the song of endorsement, in the song to express their emotions, to their beloved girl to express love.

In June 2008, the Wuding Yi wine song was announced by the State Council as the second batch of national intangible heritage list, and the Wuding Yi wine song has thus become a major brand of Wuding national culture and a charming business card of Wuding tourism culture. "Yijia wine can't finish singing, singing one song and countless songs", through selection, 30 representative songs were selected, and filmed and produced into a "Wuding Wine Song Selection Collection". Up to now, the inheritors of Wuding Yi wine songs are also bringing Wuding Yi wine songs to more and wider stages, they have sung beautiful wine songs to Zhejiang Satellite TV's "China Dream Show", sang to the stage on Oriental Satellite TV's "China's Got Talent Show", so that more outsiders can understand the Wuding Yi wine songs, so that the Yi wine songs shine in national art.

The Wuding Yi wine song is not only the soul of the Yi compatriots, but also the artistic treasure of the Yi people and the national treasure of the Wuding people. As a new generation of Yi sons and daughters, it is necessary for us to inherit and carry forward the Yi wine songs, spread the Luowu village sound on the land of China, and sing the Wuding Yi wine songs!

Source: Yunnan Chuxiong Network