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Yangtze River Three Gorges Region Reseach Of Tujia Folk Songs

Posted on:2011-08-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X TanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360332455916Subject:Minority literature
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Tujia, descendants of Cubans, is good at inging and dancing. Tujia people follow the tradition of the Palestinian people on the basis of the traditional songs and dances and they live a more poetic living, creating a lot of folk songs with strong ethnic characteristics. Their most representative folk songs are the Tujia's "Folk songs", "Waving Songs", "Weeping songs", "Jump funeral song" and so on. "Folk Songs" are the most important part of the Tujia's folk songs,which are rich in content and beautiful in song lyrics and are best loved folk songs by Tujia people. "Waving Songs" are sung in unique festival activities, in which Tujia people worship gods through waving to pray for blessings. "Waving Songs", which can be described as Tujia national epic, are good at using a variety of rhetorical techniques and myths colors. "Weeping songs" are the songs which Tujia girls sung when they are about to get married. "Weeping songs" are rich in content and language life image.The use of a variety of metaphors reflects Tujia's worship towards unique numbers, and there are other uses of allusions, colloquial and dialect, and strong ethnic characteristics. "Playing the funeral drum" is a unique funeral custom of Tujia, which in turn can be divided into the "jump mourning" and "sit mourning." "Funeral Drum Song" is "playing the funeral drum" during the singing of songs, which is rich in content, language, pay attention to rhythm, but also good at using the allusion. "Love Songs" are most loved folk songs by the people in the Yangtze River Three Gorges region. They use plain language, emotional, sincere and willing to speak one's mind with the Tujia folk character. In addition, the Yangtze River Three Gorges region of Tujia folk songs include "children's song," "plate song," and so on. Although there are a wide range of Tujia folk songs, but overall the Tujia Tujia folk songs are of a lyrical style.The outstanding Poetry is a creative collective wisdom of Tujia people through thousands of years,and an advandce literary style of Tujia ethnic characteristics.
Keywords/Search Tags:the Three Gorges, Tujia, reseach of Folk songs
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