The house boat (Miao nationality) was born in a water town with vertical and horizontal rivers and water networks. In this living environment, the house boat created a water song-salty water song, full of water feelings.
People created culture in the history of development, and culture also influenced people in the history of development.
Understanding, protecting, inheriting and developing hometown culture is conducive to enhancing the sense of identity with hometown culture, enhancing the cohesion of hometown people and promoting the development of hometown.
Therefore, this paper will introduce the local characteristic folk song-Xianshui Song in Zhongshan in detail from the aspects of origin, development, content, characteristics and value, and finally tell the story of me and Xianshui Song and my feelings during my study.
I hope readers will have a * * voice, so as to strengthen their understanding of hometown culture and enhance their understanding of life.
Keywords: Zhongshan salty water song; Water folk songs; Type and content; Artistic features; Value and function; Protection, inheritance and reform and innovation; Salt water song and me
First, the introduction of salty water songs
Salty water songs were called "Jiajiaqu" in ancient times, also known as "Shatian folk songs" or "water folk songs".
Guangdong water residents are called "Miao people". They mainly live and flow in the intersection of salty and fresh water along the South China Sea. The songs they sing are called "salty water songs" in Cantonese, which means songs sung by people who grew up drinking salty water.
Salty water songs are a form of expression of Han folk songs in Guangdong Province, which are mainly spread among farmers and fishermen in coastal areas and river network areas such as Zhongshan, Panyu, Zhuhai and Nanhai in Guangdong Province, and Tanzhou in Zhongshan is the representative area of the Pearl River Delta region.
It is a folk song sung by the local Han working people when they entertain themselves and love each other in the fields, around the base areas and under the river banks. With local characteristics.
Zhongshan Tanzhou Salty Water Song is very representative, so this paper will focus on Zhongshan Tanzhou Salty Water Song.
Second, the origin and causes of salty water songs
There are many disputes about the origin of salty water songs, and there is no conclusion yet.
The first person to record salty water songs in ancient books was Qu Dajun, a writer in Ming Dynasty, who recorded in "Guangdong Xinyu" that "boats are people's homes.
When a man doesn't find a job, he puts a pot of grass at the tip and produces a matchmaker.
When you get married, you are greeted by crazy songs. When the male song wins, it wins the female boat. "The' Man Song' here refers to the salty water song.
Salty water song not only appeared earlier, but also was a kind of China folk song that foreigners first knew.
Before the Opium War, an English businessman was very interested in the salty water song, so he specially recorded it and compiled it into a book, which was called "China Love Song".
Therefore, the salty water song became one of the earliest China folk songs to go to the world.
As for the causes of salty water songs and people's early way of life and production.
People live by boat and spend most of their time on it, which is restricted by bad natural conditions, such as bad weather and limited production and living conditions, such as lack of entertainment measures.
Therefore, singing has become an indispensable way for them to express their feelings, convey information and cheer up their spirits.
Miao people work in the vast sea all day, so they don't go with foreigners. Singing can let them vent their inner anguish, drive away physical and mental fatigue, dare to express their true feelings and abandon their introverted and conservative psychology.