Bouyei folk song (Good Flower Red Tune)
The Buyi folk song "Good Flowers and Red Flowers" is a folk song from the Buyi village in Huishui County, Guizhou Province. It originated in Maojiayuan Township, Huishui County. Huishui County is located in Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. It borders Guiding County and Pingtang County to the east; Luodian County to the south; Changshun County to the west; Guiyang City and Longli County to the north. Maojiayuan Township is a region where the Buyi population is relatively concentrated, and the Buyi population accounts for 45.1% of the total population of the township. The melody of "Good Flowers and Red Flowers" is simple, with only four sentences and two sections. It is a Yu-mode folk song. The song is composed of five notes of ladoremiso. The lyrics follow the seven-character four-sentence folk song of the Han nationality. The melody inherits the tune with the characteristics of the Buyi people. As the same song head, there are thousands of endings. The song leads to the song, which can be composed and sung at the same time. Love, marriage, labor production, customs and habits, and even political events can be included in the theme. It is closely related to life and close to the times, and has distinct characteristics of the times. The lyrics are simple, bright, melodious and euphemistic, which expresses the aesthetic taste of the Buyi people, reflects the fresh, beautiful, mellow and passionate psychological quality and the agitated and upward spirit of the Buyi people, and forms a regional representative folk song tune, which has become the representative of the Buyi tune. In the past, singing was mainly used to keep in touch and find the one you like. Generally, when men and women sing love songs, they first sing the guest song, then the greeting song, and finally the love song. After gradual trial and error, when both parties reach a state of affection, they use the good flower red as the song head and sing to their heart's content. The "good flowers" in "Good Flowers" refer to the thorns. The thorns are not afraid of wind, frost, rain, snow, and the tenacious vitality of taking root, sprouting, blooming and bearing fruit everywhere. The stamens, pedicels, and thorns on the fruits of the thorns, which symbolize love, wealth, happiness, and fortitude, perfectly coincide with the Bouyei people's pursuit of perfection, tenacity, and passion. It has become a specific national cultural symbol of the Bouyei people and has a unique national cultural symbolism. As a unique musical art form, "Good Flowers" has a gentle melody, refined lyrics, and a slow rhythm. It can be sung as soon as it opens its mouth without the need for instrumental accompaniment. It is antique in singing and has the original and simple characteristics. In the process of development, a new form of poetry has gradually formed. The number of words, sentences, rhymes, four tones, and flat and oblique tones in the lyrics have a fixed format, and the same song head but different endings, which is basically the same as the characteristics of the heavy head style of the small order in Sanqu, so it has a more typical qupai style. With the development of the times, it has evolved from the initial solo and duet to small chorus, large chorus, polyphonic chorus and other forms of expression, with strong openness and plasticity. The basic characteristics of "Good Flowers and Reds" such as inclusiveness, extension, regionality, nationality and timeliness reflect the process of changes in national traditional culture, and have important academic value for studying the dialectical unity of inheritance and development of Buyi traditional culture in the long historical process. The distinctive national aesthetic ideals and aesthetic consciousness embodied in it have important reference value for studying Buyi traditional music. However, due to the influence of the process of globalization, the social foundation on which the original Buyi folk songs rely for survival and development has changed. Most of the singers in the heyday of "Good Flowers and Reds" have passed away, and the old artists and singers who are still alive are over 70 years old. Nowadays, singers under the age of 30 who can sing Buyi folk songs "Good Flowers and Reds" are basically extinct, and the endangered status has become an indisputable fact.