Daur Historical Changes On Traditional Music Culture In Xinjiang

Daur is one of the nations that have a long history in the north of China. It moved westward to Xinjiang in Qianlong twenty eight years (1763) because of many reasons, which formed Daur, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang as the main habitable distribution of the"big mixed, small settlements".In Xinjiang, due to the environment of a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, the changes in Daur musical culture reveals distinct regions.The essay aims at adopting the research results that the forefathers possessed with Daur traditional music and the author's rewarding field investigation for Daur musical present situations in Xinjiang as the main theoretical basis. According to the development characteristics of Daur in their own history, the author summarizes Daur history changes on traditional musical culture in Xinjiang in three main stages: pre-westward fishing, hunting, farming moved west hunting during the transition period and contemporary agriculture. The methodology about ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology can be utilized to compare its diachronic with general study. Based on the above analysis, we can come to the conclusion that it has various types of nations and development of traditional music in common during the change features in Daur traditional music in Xinjiang. After two hundred years since the Westward Movement, Daur production life was changed in Xinjiang, including the fleeting loss of Daur traditional culture. As an essential part of these, the adjustments and changes on Daur musical culture in Xinjiang can be made to accommodate the times. Given the circumstances, the author puts forward the proposals for protecting and developing Daur traditional music culture in Xinjiang.