The Tragic Characteristic Of Traditional Hua'er In Liupan Mountain Area Of Ningxia Province

Tragedy opens out the tragic essence of humanity life. As one type of high-pitched tunes regional folk song, widely spreading in the Liupan mountain area, Ningxia province of northwest China, Hua 'er perfectly reflects the tragic mood of this time as well as love related tragic subject. This article first deals with the basic theories about the concepts such as tragedy and tragedy consciousness, lists a few examples to show the tragic characteristic contained in the art of Hua'er under a broad music cultural context; then a thorough analysis is given about the tragic characteristic of Hua'er both from the music side and literature side, the tragic thinking characteristic of the music is thus summarized, together with the tragic cultural information loaded in the lyrics of Hua'er folk songs; finally, from the features of geography environment, humanities characteristic, religious belief, ethics notion, nationality consciousness as well as the life and psychological experience of Hua'er singing individual, the paper expounds deeply the formation whys of the tragic characteristic in the Liupan mountain Hua'er. It is clearly pointed out in the paper that Hua'er could be basically considered as a kind of elegy, which conforms to the tragic spiritual essence of humanity, and further to that, reflects a universal feeling under competition crisis. This explanation attempts to indicate why the Hua'er art kept popular in the history and does not fade until today.