Study On The Shehuo Of Xingtai Music

Shehuo is a traditional celebration in the north of our country's folk carnival activities,which is a kind of folk belief of people for thousands of years the continuation of the left vein.Located in Southern Hebei,XingtaiShehuo is to play shangu and yangko dance,which the heritage and development of thousands of years has formed its own district characteristic,has become a regional color in the form of folk art.Although the shehuo activities derived from thousands of years ago,but for the research,especially in Xingtai,there is little research about it.In this paper,I put the "February 2" in Xin Liu Zhai village as the starting point,to study the shangu,yangko dance as an example of the Xingtaishehuo.This study based on the theory of ethnomusicology research methods,based on the field investigation,the related research results and the literature data of previous studies,through a combination of history,geography,folklore,sociology,cultural studies and other research areas,both starting from the point of view of music,music of XingtaiShehuo study.The four main aspects of this study includes the steps of Xingtai Shehuo ceremony,shangu music morphology,yangko dance steps and related cultural aspects of thinking.The first is the "Dragon Festival" temple ceremony process,first expounds theorigin of "Dragon Festival" in the 2th day of the second month of the Chinese lunar calendar,and then from the two aspects of shangu and emphatically analyses the yangko dance music and steps on the part of the village of Xin Liu Zhai " February 2 " at the ceremony in the process.Xingtai area shehuo is mainly composed of shangu,yangko and composition.Shangu also called " Taiping drum ",used by beggars tools and their singing style evolved,shangu is a musical instrument which is made up of its head,handle,the decorative ring that composed of three parts,is a set of singing and dancing.This instrument is a tool for the believers pray,and prostrate.The lyrics of shangu are "motet" and "whisper" two categories,during the performance,the shangu fan will usually improvise some general improvisations,pray for peace or small household affairs in daily life.This paper explains the lyrics from the lyrics,singing,musical lyrics and other aspects,and discusses the "godliness song","ritual songs" and "caution song","good song" and "form song" from the functional division of the song in the difference.Moreover,this paper also illustrates the "circle formation" and "nebula formation","dragon tail formation" and "column formation","U form formation" and "cross formation" and "horizontal formation ”,the seven kinds of the common formation of shangu playing.Yangko aspect,this paper discusses the predecessor and its development process,and then put its main dance form as the breakthrough point.Describes the characteristics of the yangko action of the shoulder,hip,knee,foot,and its mainly accompaniment instrument,the suona's techniques.In the aspect of social function,the three aspects of yangko are the entertainment function,catharsis function and education function.All along,the spread of the Yangko to the people is a kind of unremitting struggle,freedom of praise,the pursuit of a good life of positive energy,so it has been one of the popular entertainments.Later the thinking about the chemistry of the XingtaiShehuo is the extension.This paper summarizes the methods and improvement of traditional Xingtai Shehuo facing thesurvival environment and the needs of its inheritance and development.The loss of survival soil,the loss of inheritance,the loss of modern commercial characteristics,the lack of financial resources and the loss of the shangu fan make this kind of folk shehuo,such as shangu and yangko dance activities is very difficult to survive and develop.So it is particularly important to protect and inherit.The author writes this article,trying to make my own ability,to make the situation of this kind of folk activities can attracted attention,finally can make the traditional Xingtai fire protection and development.