Lujiahe Folk Songs

Lujiahe folk song is popular in Lujiahe Village, Guanshan Town, Danjiangkou City, Shiyan City. Almost every family here has singers, who are all over the mountains and ridges of the village. Lujiahe is located at the junction of Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi provinces. It is deeply influenced by Bachu culture, Qin Chu culture and local Taoism culture, so the folk songs have formed distinctive characteristics in the process of dissemination.
Lujiahe folk songs are a collection of folk songs that are gradually summarized, developed and inherited by the masses of people in Lujiahe through extensive oral singing in their social life practice. It is simple, approachable, vivid and flexible.
Lujiahe folk songs have a long history and have been widely spread as early as King Xuan of Zhou. It is divided into yang songs, yin songs and long narrative poems. Now more than 5000 Lvjiahe folk songs have been collected and sorted out, and 79 kinds of tunes have been recorded.
Yangge is closely related to daily customs, and can be divided into festive songs, lantern songs, drinking songs, birthday greetings songs, labor songs, children's songs, etc.
Yin songs are specially used for funerals. They are usually sung at night, so they are also called "night gongs and drums". The content is abundant, accounting for almost 70% of the total number of Lujiahe folk songs. This part of the content is often based on materials of different times and places, connecting the ancient and modern history, singing all the anecdotes at home and abroad, singing until the branches on the moon, and then singing until dawn.

In addition, Lvjiahe folk songs also include long narrative poems, a kind of libretto with story plots. Such as Longsanjie's Birthday Celebration, Du Jilian's Crying over the Prison, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, etc. These songs can be sung as yang songs or yin songs, as long as the tune is changed. According to statistics, more than 15 long folk narrative poems have been circulated in Lvjiahe.
The folk songs of Lvjiahe, which blend the north and south, gather the east and the west, sing all things, sing all people, and love duets, have been inherited with distinctive regional characteristics, and have profound research value in Qin Chu culture and Chinese folk music.
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