Before 1949, Mashan folk songs were in a spontaneous state. Representative figures who sang Mashan folk songs during this period included Wang Shengbing, Cai Difeng, Liao Chuanfa and others. In early 1955, the Social and Cultural Department of the Hubei Provincial Culture Bureau organized 12 well-known figures in the literary and art circles, including Zhang Jing'an and Sha Lai, to stay in Mashan to collect Mashan folk songs and compile more than 50 songs. In October of the same year, the Mashan Folk Song Troupe participated in the County Folk Song Performance Conference, where singers gathered together and the event was unprecedented.
As early as the 1950s, some works of Mashan folk songs were recorded as excellent Chinese folk songs by the Wuhan Record Company and exported to Western Europe and Southeast Asian countries. It is now listed as a music teaching material in primary and secondary schools, and both men, women and children enjoy singing. The poem "Singing Mao Zedong" in the collection of Chinese folk songs "Red Flag Ballads" is a folk song in the Mashan area. In 1957, Mashan folk singer Wang Zhaozhen and others sang "Trumpet Tune" and "Peng Bang Tune" at Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai, Beijing, and were warmly received by Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi and other central leaders. In 1960, "Chinese Folk Songs" published by China Music Publishing House officially published the five major tunes of Mashan folk songs. In September 2003, CCTV's feature film "Chu Songs Now and Then" shot in Mashan was broadcast on the CCTV International Channel's "Traveling in China" column, introducing Jingzhou Mashan folk songs to audiences at home and abroad. In 2009, the Ministry of Culture confirmed Wang Zhaozhen as the inheritor of Mashan folk songs with the "Notice of the Ministry of Culture on the Announcement of the Third Batch of Representative Inheritors of National Intangible Cultural Heritage Projects" No. 6 [2009].
Number: 03-0863
Information: Wang Zhaozhen, female, Han nationality, Jingzhou District, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province. In order to inherit and protect Mashan folk songs, the Jingzhou District Culture Department cooperated with the Jingzhou Art Institute to establish a Mashan folk song rescue and protection agency, and hired experts and scholars to participate in the collection, arrangement, and research of Mashan folk songs. The collected original recordings of Masan folk songs were made into CDs, the music scores and related materials were centrally archived and saved, and a special collection of Masan folk songs (a separate volume of Gangneung folk songs) was edited and published.
In addition to collecting and sorting out, Jingzhou District has also adapted and innovated traditional Mashan folk songs, giving them new connotations, and launched folk songs and dances such as "Cars, Gongs and Drums", "Burning Pancakes", " A batch of new Mashan folk songs represented by "Phoenixes and Drums Ming Together", "Opening the Rice Planting Gate", "Night Fishing", "Folk Songs Producing Farmhouse Joy", etc., make Mashan folk songs more contemporary, closer to life and closer to the masses. .
Mashan Town also used Mashan Primary School as a pilot project and mobilized students to collect the lyrics of 32 Mashan folk songs, compiled the Mashan folk songs into the "Hometown Folk Songs" local music teaching material, and included it in the teaching content of music courses in primary and secondary schools. , promoted and used in schools throughout the town, allowing students to "sing hometown songs and think about hometown affairs." We also invited city and district folk song experts to give lessons to the students, and required each student to learn to sing more than 5 Mashan folk songs during the winter vacation. The response was good.
On this basis, in June 2005, Jingzhou District cooperated with the Jingzhou Art Institute to start the process of declaring Mashan folk songs as Hubei provincial and national intangible cultural heritage projects. After review by the Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Project Expert Committee, Mashan folk songs were included in the first batch of intangible cultural heritage lists in Hubei Province and were announced online. In 2008, Mashan folk songs were included in the national intangible cultural heritage list.