Gansu Yongchang Xian Research

Xianxiao, also known as blind strings, is popular in Northwest China,especially inGansu, Qinghai provinces, talking and singing an ancient art. The performers aremostly Han Chinese blind artists, the use of instruments is mainly sanxian, siHu,mostly solo performances, occasionally two or more performances, manyperformances will be added touch bell, wooden fish and other small percussioninstruments to render the atmosphere. Because of this rap most of the content of artis to praise virtuous people in loyalty, and thus persuade people to perform gooddeeds, advising people to virtue, filial piety, it was named Xianxiao.Xianxiao-long history, many experts and scholars in recent years, are committed toYian Xiao-source research, but with little success, and many of the claims aresupported on the lack of historical data, so the upper limit of Yian Xiao-generationtime can only be in the Ming Dynasty.According to geographical distribution, divided into Xining XianXiao andGansu Xianxiao. Xianxiao mainly in Gansu Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture ofGansu Hexi region. Linxia state located in River State called Linxia Xianxiao, locatedin the Hexi region are Liangzhou Xianxiao and this Yongchang Xianxiao the object ofstudy.This article first Yongchang County Regional Overview and dialect features wereoutlined, and as the traditional track Yongchang Xianxiao and Yongchang analyzedthe music features, the main issues related to the Tune Yongchang Xianxiao features,song lyrics feature tune features, concert features, inheritance and other aspects ofanalysis, and based on the analysis of Xianxiao-song, LuoWanji（Story of the scaldingbowl） the case study to illustrate its Yongchang Xianxiao the typical significance.Research methods used in this article: Ethnomusicology basic approach to fieldinvestigation and post-desk notation, music analysis based. The field collecting folksongs, literature reading, music, text analysis, the combination of a comprehensivestudy.