Naxi Folk Song And Clan Relations-a Case Study Of Xiao Rulian’s Family

Based on the tower one of urban and rural families in Lijiang in Yunnan Province as the research object, and study of its singing folk inheritance activities and behavior. An women folk singer and his family become famous but normal farmer because of the Naxi Folk Songs.What does their singing mean?Why do they sing? The author intends to writing focus on human dimensions, sounds and cultural backgrounds, thus showing the relevant Naxi folk singer Humanities and social changes in the narrative.The article is divided into five chapters:Chapter One method of Field Investigation of Musicology Tacheng geographical and cultural environments are described, and the research literature to summarize the folk heritage overview Living Situation and overall Tacheng region; the second chapter is the main leader of the family of things Xiao Rulian and his family relations as the main writing object, oral history of its expansion, in order to explore mutually constructed between the individual and the social and historical relations; the third chapter is Xiao Rulian as the identity of the song interpretation, and its traditional Naxi folk songs sung notation analysis, is a musical body presents; the fourth chapter analyzes theXiao Rulian impact on future generations in the folk tradition, and their offspring among Naxi folk songs interactive; Understanding the relationship between music and the people, and from the age of intergenerational folk heritage. Which describes and illustrates a cultural phenomenon:the singing behavior of a family clan can act on the construction of civilization. Music has demonstrated the cohesion of the people, which will help build a harmonious cultural function of family or society; the fifth chapter is the conclusion.Naxi folk of Tacheng, in special circumstances, in a specific order or hierarchy of rank seniority in order to start a different type of folk singing; folk culture of the region showed some cultural complex features. In the course of the individual’s life, his actions, experience, motivation, and attitude it can not be easily separated. Social attributes determined as singer, whose singing all bound by social development. Therefore, Naxi folk song as a cultural symbol with a carrier, personal fate will carry between three generations of descendants. If the clan as maintaining social development of important groups, clans bear the function and duties of village autonomy. Shore Offspring hold atotal of "Dongba descent" and double "folk House" and "identity" is undoubtedly the development of local arts and culture and other aspects of a significant impact. Singing behavior of a family, the members of the family relationship is closely linked to the family into the "cultural elite" circle of local Naxi community; a family through intergenerational folk tradition, as construction of the Naxi people "Clan civilization."...