A Survey On Characteristics Of Miao Ethnic Group's And Tujia Ethnic Group's Folksong In Baojing County Of Western Hunan

The research of this subject falls into the category of regional ethnology and comparative musicology. It involves such disciplines as morphology, geography, linguistics, folklore and psychology. The research attempts to break through the limitation of the simple label-like formula of "background + form = culture", to take music as one of the organic components of national traditional culture, to explore the history of some ethnic folk music, its current situation and its development rules from the inner relationship between material culture and spiritual culture, and to interpret the essential features of these folk music and their cultural properties.This dissertation carries out detailed analysis of Miao's and Tujia's folksong in Baojing County of western Hunan, showing the characteristics of Miao's and Tujia's folksong in this region respectively: Miao's folksong has maintained its own features doggedly, while Tujia's folksong demonstrates the tendency of its blending with other ethnic music. Based on the presence of the two kinds of different basic modes that are being/have formed in the development of these two clan folksong-the keeping mode and the changing one, the dissertation intends to find out the origin of the generation of these two modes veiled behind its music form, to master the characteristics of different folk music deeply, and make some preliminary interpretation about the development of these two clan folksong. Due to the different ecological structures which consist of such elements as geographical environments, language systems, ethnic origins and psychology, to what extent Miao and Tujia were influenced by other ethnic groups and Han varies, therefore, the ways differ in the development of their folksong: Miao's folksong has the system of its own, showing the tendency of being relatively conservative and stable; Tujia's folksong has not only maintained the already existing cultural factors but also absorbed a lot of cultural factors from the outside, especially those of the Han nationality. In this way, Miao's folksong possesses the characteristics of integration. In general, Miao's folksong has inherited and maintained more ethnic characteristics vertically, thus, the development of its music is sure to be constrained, being in the state of isolation for a long time; Tujia's folksong is active in absorbing, merging and developing the music of Han and other ethnic groups horizontally, but comparatively speaking, the ethnic characteristics of its folk song is obviously desalinized.