The Handing Down And Modern Evolution Of Zhuang Singing Culture In Jingxi County In Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

A cultural study on regional groups is one subject to which anthropology pays attention. The singing culture in Jingxi is the one with profound historic humanism, varieties of forms, rich contents, vivid and lively figurative lyrics, fresh and natural rhythms and exquisite and moving tunes. It covers a wide range which reaches Gaoping province in Vietnam in the south, Funing county in Yunnan province in the west, Daxing county and Tiandeng county in Nanning in the east and Youjiang areas in the north in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, forming unique characteristics of national culture in south-western Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. However, all of this is rarely known. With anthropological field investigating methods, in the way of handing down and innovation, macro views and micro ones, the singing culture in Jingxi is stated, paid attention to, followed, described and the like so that it can be further probed into. To understand those brought by the singing culture in Jingxi, to raise certain questions and to consider rationally aims to reveal the styles of regional culture and the particular aesthetic spirit in Jingxi, from the angle of civilization style. Thus, it cannot only activate the cold, still and poor situation of the current cultural study on nation and folk culture, but also show what people should save and develop most nowadays. The original people in Jingxi are Zhuang with long history and simple custom, and the handing down and evolution of its singing culture roots deeply here. After the singing culture in Jingxi is historically expounded lengthways and investigated breadthwise, its real status quo can be presented and the modern handing down system of the singing culture can be reflected from different angles. At present, the globalization moves so rapidly that inevitable changes of the singing culture are taken place, from which minority's talking rights and national identification are reflected to be strengthened continuously, which also represents the progress of the era. The singing culture in Jingxi shows its own characteristics in the aspects of the singers, the singing custom, the singing arts and so on, which has unique social functions and is worth noticing. The "shaking aesthetic feeling and psychological satisfaction"after singing in antiphonal style are good medicine for the spiritual loss of modern people. We cannot simply summarize the current developing status quo of singing culture as that any cultural art experiences being born, developing and coming to an end, but need serious consideration and reflection. It means that we should care for and understand every "cultural adaptation"of the current singing culture with "cultural consciousness"advocated by Fei Xiaotong so that we can truly understand the connotation of singing culture, the non-material cultural heritage, and then it can be effectively handed down, innovated, protected, saved and developed. Singing culture is one that can be handed down generation after generation with striking "handing down power", because of which nation and folk culture can be continued and the vitality of nation's traditional culture can be preserved and blooms in modern life. In the meantime, singing culture is a dynamic one that must change and develop during its being handed down. Its modern evolution is obvious and positive. No unchangeable singing culture exists, the most crucial of which is how it changes and what it will result. In modern society, Zhuang singing culture in Jingxi is confronted with the same problems that other nation and folk cultures in China, even in the world are, however, as a whole, only if can we understand it, love and esteem it and cherish it, its being handed down and modern evolution still belongs to a "normal child".