Du Mingxin: Trace the roots and retain the original folk songs
"The Chinese Folk Song Conference evokes everyone's attention and love for real, national music."
——Du Mingxin
On the stage of the "Chinese Folk Song Conference", we once again heard hainan's classic folk song "Wanquan River Water Is Clear and Clear". The original inspiration for this popular red song was the mountain song in Hainan's Five Finger Mountains.
In the process of collecting style for the creation of "Red Detachment of Women", the composer Du Mingxin interviewed and studied the folk music of Hainan Island, turned the "Five Finger Mountain Song" to a different tune, wrote it more clearly and more powerfully, and made the whole song present a thriving scene, and it became the appearance of "The Water of the Wanquan River" that we hear now.
Regarding the inheritance and development of Chinese folk songs, Du Mingxin put forward two suggestions: "First, retain the original taste of folk songs, and the tone remains unchanged. Even in some places, some folk songs can be sung by the original folk singers in a very authentic, local form, which is of great significance for protecting the original ecological folk songs.
The second is to ask professional composers to conduct research, while ensuring that they can digest folk songs and their culture well, immerse themselves in their own understanding, and then re-create. "In short, we must be careful when changing folk songs, and we must not destroy its original local characteristics, so that the audience can feel kind and easier to understand."
One of the important tasks of the "Chinese Folk Song Conference" is to lead everyone to trace the roots and explore the starting point and the story behind the folk songs. Folk songs are like a national epic, recording the history of the nation and witnessing the growth of the nation.
No matter how far we go, no matter where we go, remember that our roots are there, and we always need to draw water and nutrients from there. "Not forgetting the original" is the moral sentiment of being a human being, and it is also an important principle of cultural inheritance, only in this way can Chinese culture live endlessly and stand proudly among the nations of the world.
Bian Xiaozhen: Carry forward folk songs in the inheritance
"Let our folk songs better inherit and develop, this is a very important responsibility as an actor!" When the reporter asked "how do you think you should look at the folk songs of our country as an actor", the artist Bian Xiaozhen replied, and she suddenly added a little seriousness and seriousness to her words with a smile on her face in the previous sentence.
Chinese folk songs are swept away in the glory of the years, whether it is majestic, high-pitched and tragic, or the expression of the times in Wu Nong's soft language, they all precipitate the sincere feelings of the most simple laborers in thousands of years, and use those accumulated thick melodies to tell the roots and souls of the Chinese nation. In order to explore the stories behind these perhaps long-ago hymns of the times, the reporter specially interviewed Bian Xiaozhen, a famous Chinese singer and national first-class actor, to talk about the folk songs and folk song conferences in her eyes.
Folk songs are derived from the simplest of production and life, created collectively by generations of working people, and passed on orally alone. However, with the continuous evolution of social nature and social relations, traditional culture has also undergone a certain degree of impact in the process of modernization, and the inheritance and development of folk songs are also being severely tortured. In her exchanges with Bian Xiaozhen, she repeatedly mentioned a point of view - to develop on the basis of inheritance.
"The essence of Chinese folk songs is precipitated by time and is broad and profound. In my fifty years of singing career, many songs have been recreated on the basis of the original, making them more catchy and up with the times. For example, the song "Jasmine" is accompanied by orchestras and even accepted by many foreign groups, which I think is conducive to the long-term development of folk songs. Bian Xiaozhen said.
During the recording process of the "Chinese Folk Song Conference", after modern scientific and technological means and ingenious packaging, Chinese folk songs can be displayed with such a shocking "beauty", Bian Xiaozhen said that she was very pleased: "The broadcast of the "Chinese Folk Song Conference" is very timely, and different ethnic groups are singing folk songs at the same time, but also showing their dances and costumes, especially for many young people to understand the folk songs themselves and the culture behind them. ”
At the end of the interview, Bian Xiaozhen, as an old actor, fully affirmed the "Chinese Folk Song Conference": "It has built a bridge between folk songs and the audience, not only showing many original songs, but also highly condensing the charm of traditional culture, calling on people to better pass on Chinese folk songs." ”
At present, the program is being broadcast on the CCTV-1 comprehensive channel and the CCTV-3 variety channel. In addition to appreciating the most primitive and beautiful folk songs from different nationalities, we should also see the five-thousand-year-old civilization accumulation of the Chinese nation behind the folk songs. Chinese folk songs undoubtedly have excellent innate genes, how to pass on this precious wealth, the older generation of artists have been practicing the ideal with actions. "Chinese Folk Song Conference" let us see the zhengzheng hope for the realization of this ideal!