Culture and Art Network - Culture and Art News (All-media reporter Liang Feiyan/Wen Mihao/Photo) On the evening of November 3, a live class with the theme of "Endless Yellow River Water, Endless Singing Of Letters and Heavenly Tours - National Non-Hereditary Heir Wang Xiangrong Talks About Northern Shaanxi Folk Songs" was held at Xi'an Jiaotong University, which was the second national live broadcast meeting class of the school's core general education class "Music Appreciation" on the Wisdom Tree Platform this semester. The course invited Mr. Wang Xiangrong, a national first-class actor and representative inheritor of northern Shaanxi folk songs, to share northern Shaanxi folk songs with students. The course was taught by Associate Professor Li Juan of the Music Education Center.
With the theme of the national intangible cultural heritage - northern Shaanxi folk songs, this special topic systematically describes the historical and cultural construction process of northern Shaanxi folk songs and the unique musical aesthetic characteristics. In the classroom, Wang Xiangrong sang high-pitched, straightforward and warm, vivid and vivid folk songs of northern Shaanxi for the students, so that the students had a more complete, in-depth and emotional understanding of this folk art.
In the interactive session of the class, the students used popular songs against Wang Xiangrong's northern Shaanxi folk songs, singing the joys and sorrows of people of different eras, sweet and sour, and spicy, which pushed the classroom atmosphere to a climax. In addition, Wang Xiangrong also told the students about the revolutionary process of folk songs in northern Shaanxi, and interpreted the transformation process of "Dongfang Hong" from folk songs to revolutionary folk songs. When referring to the topic of the inheritance and protection of folk songs in northern Shaanxi, Wang Xiangrong said emotionally: "Northern Shaanxi folk songs are an encyclopedia of northern Shaanxi culture, and in my eyes, every folk song in northern Shaanxi is a natural sound. I hope that children can like it, fall in love with it, and consciously pass on the excellent national culture. ”
It is reported that since March 2018, Xi'an Jiaotong University's "Music Appreciation" mooc has been launched successively in the Wisdom Tree, Love Course, and Academy Online (Chinese edition, international edition), and so far nearly 450,000 students and social learners have studied in the country, and the number of similar courses has ranked first in China's colleges and universities. Since December 2019, "Music Appreciation" has been rated as one of the top 100 courses in The Nation by Wisdom Tree Network for four consecutive times; in 2019, "Music Appreciation" mooc was selected as the "Learning Powerhouse" Shaanxi Learning Platform of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee; in 2020, it was awarded the "Mixed Online and Offline First-class Undergraduate Courses in Shaanxi Province"; in 2020, the chapter of the course "Chinese Red Classic Music" was included and broadcast by the People's Daily "People's Number" platform; in 2020, the course was selected as the "first batch of national-level first-class undergraduate courses".
"The national live broadcast class of "Music Appreciation" of Xi'an Jiaotong University invited famous artists to teach folk songs in northern Shaanxi, so that folk culture into the campus and folk art into the classroom have been fully developed, strengthening the students' recognition and love for the Chinese nation's own culture, and practicing the concept of national cultural self-confidence and cultural rejuvenation. At the same time, on the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the Party, making students realize that the integration of folk art and the Chinese revolution in a special period is a profound understanding of Chinese literary and art theory, and also an in-depth guidance of the teaching team to the ideological politics of the curriculum. Li Juan, the main teacher of this course, said.