Shibing County is located in the eastern part of Guizhou and the northwest of Qiandongnan Prefecture. The county has a total area of 1,543.8 square kilometers and governs 4 towns, 4 townships and 60 administrative villages. There are 17 ethnic minorities, including Han, Miao, and Dong, and 1 ethnic group to be identified, with a total population of about 150,000. Ethnic minorities account for 52.2% of the county's total population. The Miao "Big Song" circulated in Shibing County is a masterpiece of the Miao "Ancient Song". It is called "Xia Que" in the Miao language. "Xia" means song in the Miao language, and "Que" means big. It is literally translated as "big song" and translated as "big song". It is mainly circulated in the Miao villages (commonly known as Gaopo Miao) in the towns of Yangliutang, Shuangjing, and Chengguan in the county. The most intact one is the Tun Shang Miao Village in Yangliutang Town, Shibing County. The Shibing Miao "Ancient Song" is mainly sung by Miao young men when they stay in the guest village in the twelfth lunar month. The song is divided into "twelve routes", with more than 31,000 lines. It is huge in content, long in length, and mainly narrative. It is the most numerous, most widely spread, and most influential narrative epic among the local Miao oral narrative poems. According to its content, it can be divided into the following categories: 1. The heroic group portrait of the creation of the world. This route includes "Digging a Nest", "Transporting Gold and Silver", and "Casting the Sun and the Moon". "Digging a Nest" describes the birth, growth, marriage, and raising of children of the ancestor of mankind, Bian Liao Man (Butterfly Mother). "Transporting Gold and Silver" and "Casting the Sun and the Moon" describe the gods and yin and yang, as well as the process of heroes such as Wangbo, Gou Xiong, Ba Que, and Gou Dang creating the world, mining gold and silver, and metallurgical creation of the sun and the moon. 2. The heroic group portrait of fighting against heaven and earth. This route includes "Floods Flooding" and "Bian Xiangyou". "Floods Flooding" tells the story of the separation of the brothers Lei Gong and Jiang Shi (Aye). Lei Gong got all the property in the sky, and Jiang Shi got the world, and Jiang Shi was dissatisfied. Jiang Shi killed Lei Gong's ox in the name of borrowing an ox to plow the field, teasing Lei Gong, and Lei Gong sent a flood to punish the human world. Although Lei Gong was extremely powerful, Jiang Shi was very smart and finally subdued Lei Gong. "Bian Xiangyou" tells the story of a rebellious hero who dared to violate the rules of heaven and make a big fuss in heaven. The name of the song is the name of the hero Bian Xiangyou. He stole the divine fruit in heaven and became immortal. He violated the rules of heaven and was forced to chase everywhere. After escaping to heaven, he still did not "turn over a new leaf" and traveled with the daughter of the king of heaven. In the end, he was caught and died tragically in heaven. 3. Anthropomorphic group portraits of heroes and ghosts. This group of songs includes "Bian Se Jiao", "Five Good Men" and "Twelve Treasures". "Bian Se Jiao" tells the story of the person who was born from the third egg of the twelve eggs born by Man Bian Man Liao. She is a representative of the suffering people. She grew up in a very bad environment, was plagued by diseases, was abandoned by people, and was listed as a poor and evil ghost by people. "Five Good Men" are the ghosts and gods born from the fifth and sixth of the twelve eggs. They are brave and good at fighting, exorcising demons and catching ghosts, and are listed as home guardian gods by people. When people are haunted by ghosts and cannot be cured after long-term sacrifices, "Twelve Treasures" often narrates many other ghosts and gods besides the people, gods, thunder, snakes, tigers, centipedes, etc. in "Bian Se Jiao", "Five Good Men" and "Floods". They have names and surnames (mostly women), often tease humans, stir up disputes, cause wars, do all kinds of evil, and make people lose their fortunes and die. Therefore, these songs are clearly stated in the arrangement of songs, and they must not be sung without the master's advice. 4. A group of heroes reflecting freedom of marriage. "Yang A Sha" is a marriage epic among the twelve great songs of the Miao people, and is an ancient love narrative poem. It is known as the "most beautiful song" among the people. It mainly describes the process of Yang Asha's birth, choosing a partner, marrying the sun and then the moon, reflecting the shackles and disasters that unhappy marriages bring to mankind, and praising the struggle for marriage freedom and a happy life. 5. Reflecting the heroic group of eliminating evil and violence. This group of songs mainly includes "Xiang Jianma" and "Zhan Long". "Xiang Jianma" tells the story that Xiang Jianma's grandfather killed Xiang Jianma's adoptive father in order to seize the throne, and then put Xiang Jianma's mother in death row to eliminate future troubles. This group of songs has been sung by the Miao people for generations, and has been continuously modified, supplemented and improved to form a group of poems with a unique Miao style. "Zhan Long" tells the story of Jin Tuilei (or Jiuha), a hero who dared to go down to the deep pool to kill the evil dragon and eliminate harm for people. "Shibing Folk Literature Collection" published the Miao folk story legend of "Dragon Boat Rowing by the River and Playing Lusheng on the High Slope". 6. Reflecting the group of heroes who are smart and intelligent. This group of songs includes "Floods" and "Ganila". "Ganila" tells the story of a pair of knowledgeable and good singers and Lizu (old ancestors), reflecting the wisdom of the Miao people. In short, the Miao "Ancient Songs" is a group of epic poems that praise various heroic groups. It has a long history and is widely circulated. It is the most classic "encyclopedia" of Miao oral narrative epics. The Miao "Ancient Songs" circulated in Shibing County are the source of oral creation of the Miao people. This group of oral narrative epics is a traditional folk song that the Miao people love to hear and see. Its scale is generated from the five-degree mutual generation system. It is a branch of the national pentatonic scale system in my country. This song is rich in unique Miao colors, mostly in four degrees and five degrees, and mainly in Hui mode. It is sung in Miao language, especially by Miao male youths. Its performance form is mainly duet, two people in a group, one singing the lead and the other singing the accompaniment. The melody is unified, harmonious, deep, vigorous, and the singing is high-pitched and melodious, heroic and unrestrained, with strong appeal. In the 1950s, Yang Tongsheng, a Miao expert in Shibing County, began to collect some Miao "Ancient Songs". In the 1980s, the Ethnic Affairs Commissions of Shibing, Huangping and Zhenyuan counties excavated, sorted and classified the Miao "Ancient Songs" circulated among the people in the three counties. After seven or eight years of hard work, they collected and sorted out a relatively complete Miao "Ancient Songs", translated them into Chinese, and compared the Miao and Chinese lines, totaling more than 31,000 lines. Since then, many scholars have further studied the social development, philosophical thoughts, marriage system, religious concepts, aesthetic consciousness and the composition, historical background, inheritance, cultural connotation, social function and other aspects of the Miao epic from different perspectives based on the original data provided by the Miao oral narrative epic "Ancient Songs". (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)