| "Galao", which is translated into mandarin Chinese as "Grand Song of Ethnic Dong Minority", is a unique folk multi-voice chorus singing form in the southern Dong minority area. As one of the cultural symbols of the ethnic Dong people, with its profound connotations, it has evolved all the way with the formation and development of the Dong people. It is a unique "encyclopedia" with profound essence of the correctional nature. The core function of "Galao" lies in its cultural heritage. The unique succession and cultural context have shaped generations of the Dong people and their unique national traits, which is just the charm in the Dong people's traditional cultural education. Today, the roots of the traditional cultural heritage are persistently extending in the soil of Yandong of the Dong region. This traditional culture, through the baptism of the times, still maintains its vitality and strong vigor. It has become a typical "living" culture state of the Dong people. The heritage inheritance has been successful. All this has strongly enticed the author into an in-depth study to examine the motives of its heritage succession and its specific operational mechanisms, to analyze its heritage value (educational function), and to further ponder upon how China's ethnic people have successfully carried forward their excellent cultural traditions, for the purpose of summing up the universal regularity for successful national cultural heritage successions through the "living" cultural heritage mold, which will be conducive to sustainable development of national cultures.This paper is comprised of five chapters. The content design intends to highlight the two aspects of "seeking things" and "seeking truths". "Seeking things" mainly means that the author has visited the Dong people's habitat many times, taken Yandong Village as the survey venue, conducted in-depth field studies of the folk form of multi-voice chorus-"Galao", collected a large number of first-hand materials, summed up and sorted out the materials, and generalized, as complete as possible, the detailed contents and cultural evolutions of the heritage of the Galao culture. "Seeking Truth" focuses on emphatic analyses to grasp the ontology composition of the Galao heritage, the Galao heritage inheritance mode, and the Galao heritage's educational function. Based on reflections on educational anthropology, the paper outlines the general laws of the inheritance of traditional culture and our response tactics. Details are as follows:Chapterâ… :No.1 village of the Galao cultural heritage-an overview of Yandong Village. Through the cultural ecosystem perspective, at the macro and micro levels, it observes and describes Yandong Village, the No.1 village of the Galao cultural heritage. The macro level includes Yandong Village's physical geography, historical origin, and other aspects, while the micro level covers Yandong villagers'material life, spiritual life, etc. The two levels back up each other, and together, they constitute the ecosystem on which the Galao cultural heritage is based in its existence.Chapterâ…¡:Composition of the Yandong Village Galao heritage. Through the author's many field surveys in the region, the paper defines the concept of "Galao", collects, records and sorts out categorical compositions, music patterns and song lyrics characteristics of the Yandong Galao heritage, with a view to present to the outside world the Yandong Galao heritage compositions and features in a more real, more objective and more accurate manner. At the same time, from music, anthropological point of view, it offers theoretical and cultural perspectives of the music morphology of the Yandong Galao heritage, so it is no longer analysis in a pure sense of music form, but a presentation of objective existence of the sound form with a strong imprint of a characteristic culture.Chapterâ…¢:Field surveys of the Yandong Galao heritage inheritance mode. It is discovered through the in-depth field studies in Yandong Village that, although the inheritance of the Galao heritage has a close system in the countryside, as far as the inheritance channel is concerned, it has already transcended the local community and the local ethnic culture and merged with the background of the contemporary society. Also, from the trunk evolution mode come other modes of inheritance, namely, mentoring heritage, drum-tower antiphonal style singing heritage, artistic performance heritage, and school education heritage. This study terms the first two "traditional heritage" and the other two "modern heritage", and offers detailed and in-depth descriptions and analyses of the four types of the Galao heritage inheritance modes in terms of inheritance purposes, inheritance contents, inheritance processes, inheritance characteristics, etc. respectively, with a view to comprehensively interpret the selection mechanisms of the Yandong Galao culture in the contemporary contexts.Chapterâ…£:Educational function of the Yandong Galao heritage. Based on the detailed and in-depth field surveys of the Yandong Galao heritage as the background, from the perspective of educational anthropology, reviewing the four types of cultural inheritance modes, namely, mentoring heritage, drum-tower antiphonal style singing heritage, artistic performance heritage, and school education heritage, the paper makes an in-depth study of the current Galao heritage through the "integrated-four-dimension" model of cultural heritage to discuss their unique heritage values, namely, educational function, for the realization of socialization and enculturation of human beings.Chapterâ…¤:Modern reflections on the Galao cultural heritage. Through interpretations of relevant theories of educational anthropology, the paper analyzes the nature of the perennial Yandong Galao cultural inheritance dynamics and put forward general regularities of national culture heritages. Namely, culture heritages must meet people's needs, and they must be realized through cultural selections and education. It further proposes protective measures for the national culture heritages of China. That is, we must achieve "organic integration" of traditional and contemporary cultural heritages", ensure the "basic elements" to carry forward culture heritages, and promote the "integration of elements" in national culture heritages.To sum up, the heritage of national traditional culture is a social activity with practice as the carrier, and it is based on practical and realistic adaption of traditional culture. Some of the measures and methods based only on "paper work utopia" cannot solve practical problems faced by national traditional cultures, and nor can they propose inheritance strategies with high practical values. So we must start from the actual conditions in ethnic minority areas to understand traditional culture inheritance mechanisms, characteristics and values, and major needs of the ethnic people. We should identify coordinating balances to reconcile traditional cultures and modernizations, and find out universal inner regularities and necessary conditions for modern inheritance of traditional cultural heritages. Analyses of these issues will be of great significance and research value to our national cultural heritages and protection. Only when we are deeply involved in ethnic areas to conduct surveys with anthropological methods can we find the answers to these questions.
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