Quanzhou guys "rap + nanyin" on CCTV to promote the spread of minnan culture

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Quanzhou guys take electronic rap + south tone on CCTV

Multi-dimensional innovation promotes the spread of southern Fujian culture

Quanzhou Network, January 29 (Reporter You Yibing) "Kicked off the prelude to history, this is my attitude, the reputation of the shijing shizhou people in ancient times, Yunshan Baiyue Road, noodle paste, meat dumplings, soil shoot jelly, radish salty rice into the belly, full of happiness, sent into the ancient city of thousands of households ..."

Recently, 23-year-old Quanzhou boy Wu Xuanhui presented the tide play music "Quanzhou" full of Minnan cultural elements in the large-scale original music program "Sing My New Voice" of the Central Radio and Television Corporation, which is an electronic rap (RAP) and Nanyin mash-up song that not only exploded in the circle of friends of the citizens, but also made more people pay attention to and love Nanyin and Quanzhou.

Host Ren Luyu and Quanzhou boy Wu Xuanhui (right) on the stage of "Sing My New Voice". (Courtesy of Wu Xuanhui)

Give old art a whole new idea

In fact, the song "Quanzhou" has been "red" for a long time. As early as the end of 2020, in the third season of CCTV's large-scale non-genetic inheritance and innovative cultural program "Very Legendary", Wu Xuanhui and the well-known Nanyin singer Zhuang Lifen jointly performed this song.

"Miaoyin fei tian ben volleying, I am like a thorn tong standing like a pine; the twin towers are standing in the city, the bricks are formed into a piece of Minnan hong..." It is reported that "Quanzhou" was written, composed, and sung by Wu Xuanhui, and in addition, he also composed nanyin music with Chen Guimin, a nanyin practitioner. I studied many traditional Nanyin repertoire and found that there were fewer repertoire depicting Quanzhou culture and Quanzhou scenery, so I carried out a new creation, integrating Elements such as Quanzhou snacks and intangible cultural heritage points into it, retaining the rhythm of Nanyin, and then connecting popular music, which can allow more audiences to accept and understand the traditional Nanyin art of Quanzhou. ”

Wu Xuanhui introduced that he strives to combine the current popular electronic music and rap culture with the traditional Minnan opera culture, and integrates the tide play culture with the traditional culture of southern Fujian from multiple dimensions such as visual and auditory. Under such a concept, works such as "Carp Line" and "Quanzhou" also came into being.

It is worth mentioning that in the near future, Wu Xuanhui will also have a song "Husband Zhi" appear on CCTV fifteen sets, the work also added Minnan elements, there is a Minnan lyrics for "my own destiny, I go by myself, my fate is not predestined.".

Use music to speak outward to attract more people to know Quanzhou

The innovative integration of Minnan elements and popular music is exactly the direction that Wu Xuanhui has been striving for, and the original electronic Chinese style music MV "Carp Xing" that he participated in and sang as the lead singer won the love of netizens, especially young people, and his lead singing intangible cultural heritage music video "Zayton Quanzhou" won the only first prize of the second intangible cultural heritage short video competition in Fujian Province.

"My grandfather loves to listen to Nanyin, and as a native of Quanzhou, I grew up with a strong interest in local culture. Finding that many of my peers at present do not particularly understand the culture of southern Fujian, I hope to use my own strength to integrate innovative elements into the traditional repertoire of southern Fujian and let the local culture flourish. Wu Xuanhui said.

With this belief, Wu Xuanhui co-founded the LeJia Filming Team with friends, visiting various non-hereditary heirs and quanzhou people of the older generation, constantly enriching their insights and improving their creative ability. After several attempts, they found that the work should not only stop at copying and adapting the ancient traditional culture and art, but should give the ancient art a new concept. On the basis of respecting tradition, the team strives to keep pace with the times and conform to the trend of the times.

Wu Xuanhui introduced that in his heart, "Quanzhou" is an unfinished work, and he hopes to further innovate and improve this song with more music lovers in the future, and polish it into a more perfect work to spread the culture of southern Fujian. The original intention of this series of music creation is not only to show the feelings of local humanities, but also to speak out, to attract more people to understand Quanzhou and like Quanzhou culture through music, so as to push Quanzhou culture to the world and let the world enjoy Quanzhou culture.