Research On The Linguistic Characteristics Of Dong’s Pipa Song

Pipa song of Dong Minority,known as "al bic bac" in Dong language,is the spiritual product of Dong people,the embodiment of cultural diversity,and the direct response of language in the application of entertainment and education.Hugo once said that "music is the sound of thinking",Dong Pipa Song is the way of thinking expression of Dong people,and it is a higher-level construction of language organization.Pipa Song has rigorous rhythm,various types and unique style.With Pipa of Dong as the accompaniment instrument,it is an art form integrating education and entertainment,enjoying a high social status among Dong.Dong language is a tonal language,and the richness of the tones gives the language a musical sense.Pipa Song pays more attention to rhythm,so that the sense of music more prominent.The main rhyming forms of Dong Pipa Song are tail rhyme,hook rhyme and sentence rhyme.Endrhyme is a rhyme that is arranged in the last word of each section of a verse.A song may be free of hook and intra rhyme,but it must not be free of endrhyme.Endrhyme is the main rhyme of a song.Hook rhyme,also known as waist rhyme,is a section of the rhyme between the top and bottom sentences,to play a link between the effect;Rhyme is a rhyme between the syllables in a sentence.Compared with the end rhyme,hook rhyme and intra rhyme are flexible and can be used or not.There is no fixed requirement on the position.Pipa Songs also has many characteristics in terms of rhythm.In addition to the relatively fixed structure of the head and tail,other contents change according to the local language habits and the uniqueness of rhyme.Even if the same song is sung in different regions,the original rhyme and rhythm will be changed under the influence of the local language.There are two kinds of singular syllable and even syllable in the sentence pattern.Sentences with singular syllables include: three words,five words,seven words,nine words,etc.Two-syllable sentences include four-syllable sentences,six-syllable sentences and eight-syllable sentences.Dong is a subtle and simple ethnic group,the song is the concentration of all people’s thoughts and feelings,all the ineffable words can be shown in the song in a beautiful form.There are many special words in Pipa Song,which are different from spoken words.The figure of speech of Pipa Song is changeable,and the common figure of speech includes metaphor,repetition,exaggeration and borrowing.These figures of speech with ethnic characteristics show the implication and inner deposits of Dong people incisively and vividly.Prosody and rhetoric are the first conditions to identify the language style and characteristics of poetry.Based on the study of Sanbao Pipa Song,this paper systematically analyzes the characteristics of rhyme and rhyme,sentence rhythm and language rhetoric in poetry,and presents the language thinking and creative thinking of Dong people.