If you want to know how many songs I have, I will count the sand on the beach. If you want to know how many dances I have danced just count the leaves on the hillside.
In the songs and dances of Nu people, Nu people are unique. Every dance has a fixed score and music accompaniment. There are major chords and chords on the score. Accompaniment instruments include pipa, piccolo and stringed instruments.
There are two kinds of female pipa: trapezoidal and oval. Although its appearance is not very delicate, its color is bright and expressive. It is generally made of nanmu, covered with a thin plate with sound holes, with a string column above the piano pole and a bamboo pole nailed in the outer string. It's fricative, not phoneme. Only beeswax is used as a phoneme marker. The length of this piano is about 7 centimeters. He played three strings in his early days, but now he plays four strings. Sheep intestines used to be used as ropes, but now steel wires are used instead. Pipa is usually played by men.
This kind of oral thread is for women only. Nusu language calls it "several flavors", which have one string and three strings. Three chords are more complicated than one. There are three notes, one of which is fixed, and the interval relationship is 162 and 512. This kind of thread is beautifully made and easy to carry. It is usually placed in a rope barrel engraved with delicate bird patterns and hung on the chest as decoration. When playing, the left hand grabs the tail, and the right hand pulls up the head, which makes a * * * sound with the flute at the mouth. The volume is controlled by the airflow in the mouth. The voice is deep and melodious. It is not only played in dance, but also an instrument for young girls to confide in their loved ones.
piccolo is played by men and women, but it is mainly played by women in dance. Nu language is called "the only Lila", which is a common folk musical instrument. The flute is 4 inches long, with 4 sound holes and 6532 tones. The music is soft and beautiful.
In addition, there is a straight flute called Pipa, which has six sound holes. Blowholes are made of wax instead of reeds. The timbre is delicate, smooth and beautiful. This is an instrument for entertaining oneself.
As ukulele is called "Dabie Mountain" among Nu people, people further call music and dance activities "Dabie Mountain". In Dabie Mountain, the whole history of migration, development, production and life of Nu people was recorded in the dance vocabulary. So a writer once said, "Dabie Mountain is the whole life, philosophy and history of Nu people."