Dahe News Yu video reporter Huang Ting
"To be awarded the Ma Jie Shu Title is the highest honor for us folk artists!" Zhu Yunge, the winner of the 2022 Majie Book Club Book Champion, yudong qin book artist, draped in a big red flower of the book, accepted an exclusive interview with the Yu video reporter of Dahe News after the selection of the book title: "I began to learn art at the age of twelve, followed my family in folk piano books, it has been more than forty years, and I am very excited to get the book title today. ”
On February 13, at the book selection site of Baofeng Ma Street's "Meet Ma Street, Yunshang Book Club", the contestants were Zhuangyuan, Bangyan and Tanhua, who were: Zhu Yunge, a Book Artist of Yudongqin, Yue Jianjun, an Artist of Henan, and Bai Jinshan, an Artist of Henan. Zhu Yunge, the "Queen of Qinshu" in Eastern Henan, helped her to ascend to the stage of the Majie Book Club with her stirring and beautiful singing voice, dignified and atmospheric performance, and smooth, bright and melodious Yangqin.
The reporter saw in the Baofeng County Majie Book Club China QuYi Trading Center that the book venue covering an area of more than 600 acres, without the offline activities in previous years, artists from all over the country showed books and performed here, which was in stark contrast to the artists who were full of people and rubbed shoulders in previous years.
Affected by the epidemic, the Majie Book Club, which has lasted for more than 700 years, canceled offline activities this year, from "the field" to the "network cloud", but this did not stop the inheritance and charm of the Majie Book Club, there are still villagers rushing from all directions to the Majie Book Club Scenic Area, the huge book club square still has more than a thousand people, after seeing the empty wheat field, slightly disappointed.
Dong Suzhen, a villager in Majie Village, told reporters: "Since the eighth day of the first lunar month before the Spring Festival, you can see the short videos of artists on the Internet, there are new programs every day, and you also know that this year's book has been selected online, but this morning I still want to come here to see, after all, so many years of tradition, I have long formed a habit." ”
Zhou Boya, director of the Protection Department of the Pingdingshan Rap Culture (Baofeng) Ecological Protection and Development Center, introduced that around the Lunar New Year, Baofeng continued to hold the "Culture into Ten Thousand Homes, Video Live Broadcast hometown year" - "Meet MaJie Yunshang Book Club" online Majie Book Club series of activities to restore the traditional folk customs of The Majie Book Club. Since the launch of the event, it has attracted folk artists, music practitioners and music lovers from all over the country to sign up to participate. In 2022, the Yunshangma Street Book Fair recorded and collected more than 600 "bright book" videos of national artists, and more than 1,000 (times) were released on the whole platform, so that the national audience could "watch a thousand plays a day and read thousands of books in three days" without leaving home.
Yue Jianjun, a Henan falling artist from Zhongmu, Henan, won the list of the 2022 Yunshang Ma Street Book Club, he told reporters: "I said that the stage of the book is in the fields of ten miles and eight villages, and the Ma Street Book Club is a 'grand event' for our storytellers, I just want to sing our unified culture, civilization new wind and party policies to thousands of households, sing to the hearts of the masses, and will go to Ma Street in the next year to 'bright books'!" ”
Located 7.5 kilometers south of Baofeng County, Henan Province, Majie Street was once a prosperous place of "merchants gathering and property distribution" in history, and now it has become a sacred place of music and art in the hearts of folk artists, the spiritual home of rap artists, and the grand event and traditional program of Chinese music and art circles. Here the folk customs are simple, the land is fertile, the water is beautiful and refreshing, the ancient Ying River in the east of the village and the fire temple by the river pass by, and the green wheat field has become a big stage for artists to rap.
For more than 700 years, in this fertile field, no matter the change of dynasties, natural and man-made disasters, the book club has been endless, and it has stubbornly continued to develop to this day. Every year on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, thousands of rap artists from home and abroad and even more than 20 provinces and cities across the country, drums and pianos, no matter the rain, rain and snow, hardships and hardships, sing all the way to come, appreciate themselves, and then sing all the way away, when more than a thousand rap artists gathered in the book venue covering an area of more than 600 acres, hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people to listen to books, wander around, looking for their own fun, growing inexplicable touch.
Shen Hongxia, director of the Pingdingshan Rap Culture (Baofeng) Ecological Protection and Development Center, introduced that the Ministry of Culture officially approved the establishment of the National Rap Culture (Baofeng) Ecological Protection Experimental Zone in January 2017, becoming the first national-level cultural and ecological protection experimental zone in Henan Province. For the Majie Book Club, the pilot area will hold a seminar on rap culture theory, record measures such as preserving and protecting relevant folk customs, carry out six-step activities such as "entering the campus" and "entering the community", comprehensively protect the repertoire and related folklore of the Majie Book Club, and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
Source: Dahe Newspaper Yu Video Editor: Zhao Pengyu