In the Dream Miao Village of Rongshui Miao Autonomous County in Guangxi, they sang the happy life of the children of the Miao family with the most simple voice and the most sincere heart. Today at 21:20 Guangxi Satellite TV "Guangxi in Folk Songs", follow the new folk song experience officer Lu Ting to find Guangxi in Miao Songs!
The ancient songs of the Rongshui Miao ethnic group cover a lot of the history of the Miao people, from the origin of the Miao people, to the great migration of the Miao people, the ancient social system and daily production and life of the Miao people, etc., all of which are all inclusive, and have become the general collection of Miao history. In 2014, the ancient songs of the Miao nationality were listed as the fifth batch of representative items of intangible cultural heritage at the autonomous region level.
The "Lusheng Stepping Hall" of the Rongshui Miao people is a lusheng performance form that combines music and dance. There are more than 100 kinds of lusheng modes, and the main ones are welcome, hospitality and other modes. LuSheng head with the boys in front of the blowing while dancing, the girls followed closely behind, with the lusheng pillar as the center of the circle, around a concentric circle, commonly known as "stepping on the hall dance", more and more girls joined, the circle will be bigger and bigger.
What kind of tone the lusheng head blows, the girls will dance accordingly. Lu Shengtou was the focus of the audience, and the audience's eyes followed his rhythm and dance changes, he sometimes played upside down; sometimes rotated, and the difficult movements were applauded by the crowd. The stepping hall dance is roughly divided into three types of entertainment, competition, and sacrifice, and the step hall dance of the Pohui is more of an entertainment nature, with the distinction of "Wen Da" and "Wu Da", "Wen Da" has a light body rhyme, gentle and gentle, the dancers advance and retreat, the rhythm is slow; "Wu Da" beats excitedly, male and female dance, free and unrestrained, and the pattern is complex.
According to legend, in ancient times, after the Miao people's gods and goddesses and suedes created the sun and the moon, they stole grain seeds from Tiangong and sprinkled them into the ground, but unfortunately the harvest of the sown grain was very poor, and in order to understand the worries, a sue and a confession cut six white bitter bamboo from the mountain into a bunch, and put it in the mouth to blow out a strange music. Curiously, the rice in the field grew very luxuriantly to the music of the bamboo pipe, and there was a great harvest that year. Since then, the Miao family has blown reeds on every festive day.
The combination of Miao legends, archaeological findings, and documentary records shows that the Miao people are one of the earliest ethnic groups engaged in farming in the mainland. The Miao language is the carrier of the Miao culture, and the rich and delicate farming culture words in the Miao language, like a piece of fossil, more or less reflect the miao farming culture.
Generations of Hmong farmers have revered rice and believed that rice has a soul. The soul of the budded rice seedlings seems to be a young girl with spring who can't wait to go out to play, and once the soul leaves, the rice ears of this season are not full, and the rice harvest is lost. Therefore, the beautiful and industrious Miao girls must use the most beautiful and touching songs to awaken the rice seedlings, retain their souls, and ensure a good harvest every year.
Miao embroidery refers to the embroidery skills inherited by the Miao people, which is one of the unique forms of expression in the history and culture of the Miao people, and is the crystallization of the diligence and wisdom of the Miao women. The embroidery process of Miao costumes has its own uniqueness, such as double needle lock embroidery, crepe embroidery, braid embroidery, broken yarn embroidery, silk silk paste embroidery, tin embroidery and so on.
In terms of shape and shape, the embroidery pattern uses a large number of deformation and exaggeration techniques to express the myths and legends of the Miao creation, and the Miao embroidery stitches can be roughly divided into seven kinds: embroidery, insertion, bundling, sprinkling, dotting, picking, and stringing. Thus forming the unique artistic style and embroidery characteristics of Miao embroidery.
Miao embroidery has a long history, and the exaggerated deformation of its decorative patterns is not only concerned with the performance of vibrant objective objects, but also the fantasy color of dreams; the stitching is rich and varied, and the tones are simple and harmonious and bright and bright.
Guangxi Miao marriage customs are mainly distributed in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, located in the northern mountains of Liuzhou, Guangxi, is one of the three major Miao settlements in the country, and is also the first established and the only Miao autonomous county in Guangxi. The rongshui Miao marriage custom has a history of more than 1,000 years.
There are two kinds of marriages, self-arranged marriages and arranged marriages, and the Miao society strictly adheres to the monogamy and the marriage system within the clan and outside the blood clan. The young people of the Rongshui Miao nationality know each other through po meetings, sister walking, au pairs, etc., and have a love affair and a good relationship in production and labor. In the wedding dress of the Rongshui Miao people, different styles such as the Shang Zhou "top and bottom dress", the Spring and Autumn "deep clothes", the "two crotches" of the Han Dynasty, the "half arm" of the Tang Dynasty and the "bandeau" of the Song Dynasty, and the "cloud shoulder" of the Ming Dynasty have been retained, and are known as the "living fossils" of the history of Chinese clothing.
For the Rongshui Miao people, the wine should be mellow and sweet, and the wine culture contained in it is to highlight the characteristics of the Miao culture, of which the representative wine culture is the "alpine flowing water" toast ceremony.
The hospitable Miao family compares guests to acquaintances, and all guests come and go, which is the highest courtesy of the Miao family. Miao girls dressed in gorgeous costumes lined up in a row with horn cups filled with fine wine. A bowl higher than a bowl pours out fine wine like a small waterfall, stack after stack flowing into the mouths of guests. The scenery of the mountains and rivers is all in the wine. Note that you can not touch the wine bowl with your hands, after touching it, you must drink it all, if the amount of wine is small, you don't need to worry about getting drunk, you can stop at any time, which is a symbol of the hospitality of the Miao family.
Edited by 丨 Lu Ting
Responsible editor 丨 Qing Lin Qiang