"How can you sing this kind of song?" The tourist asked curiously, "Didn't Director Lu say that even his own nation can't sing it?"
"Well." He Huan said, "When I was helping the teacher move his office, an audio tape fell out from the bookshelf. This is the music of the ethnic minorities that the teacher and the others collected after traveling among the ethnic minorities in the mountains and visiting many elderly people.
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In fact, the teachers couldn't translate it accurately, but they roughly knew the meaning of the lyrics. I borrowed it to listen to it and followed the old people in it to learn sentence by sentence. Those old people are almost dead now, right? There are even fewer people who can sing."
Everyone sighed: "Why don't their own people pass it on? It's really nice! The lyrics are very simple but full of philosophy!"
He Huan sighed, "The Dulong people are the smallest ethnic group in our country. They live on the banks of the Dulong River, and the mountains are blocked by heavy snow for half a year, so they are isolated from the world.
After being discovered, many people of the Dulong people came out of the mountains. As the various ethnic groups lived together, they could speak the languages of other ethnic groups, but the language of their own ethnic group gradually disappeared."
"It sounds really good!" said the handsome guy from Northeast China, "I used to think that Yunzhou folk songs were just like the old driver's musical divinations!"
Everyone laughed and said, "Yes! I didn't expect it to be so desolate and primitive!"
He Huan nodded, "Those popular Yunzhou divine songs on short videos cannot represent Yunzhou folk songs. Yunzhou folk songs are actually very simple and beautiful."
Everyone nodded.
"But they are destined to be difficult to spread. On the contrary, those vulgar songs are more widely spread. Many of them are taken by young people in rural areas with their mobile phones to attract audiences. The ones that can be spread are all cheerful.
The geographical environment of Yunzhou is very complex, with mountains and rivers. Many of the folk songs hidden deep in these mountains and rivers have their tunes derived from nature, and their taste is desolate and simple.
Before liberation, the Dulong people still used knotting ropes or carving wood to record events, just like primitive people.
When they work and meet with relatives and friends, including when they get married, they all do it in the same tune. The lyrics are all simple and plain, with the accent added to their normal speech.
Because the Dulong people worship ghosts and advocate witchcraft, witchcraft exists among many ethnic groups in the southwest. They believe that every plant and tree has a soul, so they use many analogies, and they also highlight some romance in their simplicity.
In addition to these, there are also songs about complaints, which are sung when you encounter any troubles. When two people meet, you start to quack, and they start to sing."
Everyone laughed.
"Dulong Township is the last village in my country with access to roads. Now that the Dulong people have emerged from the depths of the mountains, and people from outside can enter, these things will naturally disappear."
Everyone nodded and couldn't help but sigh: "I don't know if this is a good thing or not."
"The reason why the ethnic minorities in Yunzhou have so many folk songs is because the songs are easy to impress and spread. If they are just spoken, they cannot be passed down.
They lack written inheritance, so they can only pass it on orally. And the best way to pass it on orally is to make it into songs, just like birds.
They used to live by hunting and gathering, and the variety of animals and rich sounds in the mountains gave them expressions like birdsong and ape cries."
Everyone was very impressed and finally understood why there are so many folk songs in Yunzhou!
"The Dulong people are the indigenous people of the Nujiang River Basin, but the indigenous people have always been the most oppressed ethnic group."
"Why?" a tourist asked curiously.
"Because those who dare to step out of their own territory and expand outward are inherently aggressive."
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Everyone nodded.
“In the history of our country, northern nomads have been migrating southward, which is understandable. Although life on horseback is free, living and working in peace and contentment is everyone’s yearning.
The Dulong people have always had a primitive patriarchal commune system, but the Lisu people who moved from Mongolia and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have already adopted a feudal system, as well as the Naxi chieftains and the Tibetan slave system.
The leaders and lords of these ethnic groups continue to invade their lands and make them pay tribute and become slaves. Therefore, the Dulong women have their faces tattooed with pot ashes when they are twelve years old, just to avoid being kidnapped by foreign tribes.
In order to resist the oppression of foreigners, they must unite and implement a group marriage system and a large family system to connect blood relatives of the clan. The whole clan is obliged to avenge one person's hatred.
They help each other, are good at educating their children, and have very noble moral character. But in this big family that shares blessings and hardships, they are a nation with free love and arranged marriages."
"What does freedom of love mean and arranged marriage?" the tourists asked curiously.
He Huan said with a smile: "In fact, many people nowadays are no different from them! You can fall in love casually, but you have to listen to your parents when getting married."
"Ah!" Everyone nodded with emotion.
"They implement a one-way circular group marriage system. For example, a woman from a clan is fixedly married to a man from her uncle's family. A woman from her uncle's family is fixedly married to a man from her aunt's family. It's an uncle's marriage.
As for the clan, no matter whether they are blood relatives or not, they are not allowed to intermarry. Proposal to marry a daughter is also a matter of agreement among the elders, and neither the man nor the woman involved will show up.
People usually get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, so when it comes to freedom of love, how long does it take? They have just begun to fall in love, and they are almost ready to get married. Therefore, the most difficult thing is for young men and women, who often have to marry another person just after they have found the person they love.
Therefore, they also produced many love songs, but their love songs are very sad. They are basically sung directly to someone and named after the other person. The content is very romantic, but the endings are mostly about taking poison and jumping into the river."
Everyone couldn't help but sigh, the Northeast handsome guy's girlfriend's eyes were red.
"From the inside out, this is a nation full of suffering and deeply oppressed. Many ethnic minorities have many festivals, but the Dulong people only have one festival - Kaquewa, which is equivalent to our Chinese New Year.
The Nationalities Garden celebrates the New Year every day, and there are numerous ethnic minority festivals. Most of the songs sung for tourists are hymns, and everyone is here to have fun.
But this will make people think that ethnic minorities do nothing all day long and are always so free and happy. So I say that in the ethnic park, it is okay to watch the fun, but it is not okay to really get to know them.
For a suffering nation, the dissolution of culture represents the progress of living standards and the openness of ideas. There must be gains after losses, and the ones who are more sad should be themselves. So it is understandable that he cried when he heard it."
Listening to He Huan talking about the history of the Dulong people, everyone felt sad. Now we can fully understand why the lullabies are so desolate!
"Because they originally belonged to this land, but in order to avoid foreign oppression, they fled from the Nujiang Bazi to the deepest valleys of the snow-covered mountains. They became the smallest ethnic group. When the Republic was founded, there were only more than a thousand people.
There are so few people and such a suffering nation, but they have created so many beautiful tunes. This is the "living" of an indigenous nation! Therefore, among the four tribes in the canyon, I have a special liking for the Dulong tribe."
Everyone also lamented that the young Dulong people no longer know Dulong songs, and they don’t know whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing!
"Xiao Bailong, can you sing the baby tune just now in Mandarin?"
"Are you sure?" He Huan looked at them and said, "My children, father is telling you..."
Hearing his ungrateful laughter, the sadness that the tourists had just created by him disappeared in an instant, and they chased after him and surrounded him.
"Look, these brats are unteachable!" He Huan ran away.
Lu Kuan walked slowly behind, watching them playing with a smile, "Little Bailong! As soon as he opens his mouth, it's up to him whether he makes you cry or laugh!"