Daliuzi is an ancient folk musical instrument ensemble that is widely spread in the Tujia area. It has a long history and many tunes. It is also a unique art form of the Tujia people. Tujia Dailiuzi are mainly distributed in Longshan, Baojing and other places. So, how much do you know about Tujia Daluzi?
Next, let’s take a look at it from the perspective of national culture!
The origin of Daliuzi
Daliuzi, a unique style of percussion music of the Tujia people, has a long history. Judging from the ancient custom of Tujia people beating pots and drums to drive away the so-called "Tiangu" that "swallows the moon" during the current "lunar eclipse", it is possible that Daliuzi originated from the primitive fishing and hunting era. When people hunt animals, to celebrate, they knock fishing and hunting tools as well as pots, bowls, pots, pots, ladles, bowls and other "daggers". Therefore, to this day, the Tujia people still call Daliuzi "beating fellows". Entering the copper and iron age, it was probably replaced by copper and iron "guys". The use of musical instruments such as gongs and cymbals is obviously very late. From the fact that there are no music scores in the music playing, we can only see its original simplicity by imitating nature to reflect people's feelings about life.
The artistic characteristics of Daliuzi
In the process of historical development, Daliuzi has formed its own distinctive characteristics, and its music and performance characteristics are:
(2) Various forms and flexible techniques. Make full use of changes in speed, timbre, intensity, and beat to organically connect a variety of different tunes into a set, and add to the musicians' superb acting skills to show various vivid images and interests.
(2) The rhythm is fresh and lively, and the beat changes frequently. Most of the music is based on a pattern, with various tempo changes in between. The beginning and tempo changes of the music sections are often converted into 1/4 beats, which is smooth and free, with a sense of stability and a sense of movement.
The glorious history of Daliuzi
In 1998, "Daliuzi" from Chuanshanping Village, Renheping Town, left the Tujia village for the first time and entered the Hubei TV station's "People's Spring and Autumn" column.
In 2001, he won the first Chutian Dandelion Music Gold Award in the province.
In 2002, "Running to welcome rare guests" won the gold medal in the first middle-aged and elderly cultural performance in Yichang City.
In 2004, he participated in the "National Children's Dandelion Grand Prix" in Nanjing, Jiangsu and won the silver medal.
In 2007, Nanhe Gongs and Drums were selected into the Wufeng primary and secondary school textbook "Gaze at the Five Peaks".
In 2008, he participated in the "Eighth China Art Festival" performance.
In 2008, he participated in the county folk art performance and won the gold medal. Selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection projects nationwide.
In 2009, Jian Boyuan, a daliuzi artist, was named the third batch of representative inheritors of Tujia daliuzi, a national intangible cultural heritage project in the country.
In 2013, he was invited to participate in the Macau Lantern Festival.
Tujia Daliuzi has a simple style, distinctive rhythm, beautiful melody and changeable tunes. It is called "the symphony of Tujia people". In the instrumental music art of my country's ethnic minorities, Daliuzi's unique combination and superb performance skills form a system of its own and are extremely representative. It can not only provide important materials that cannot be ignored for the study of ethnology and sociology, but also serve as one of the extremely precious specimens of native national culture for the study of timbre and melody in musicology.