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Flowers Everywhere: Dongxiang People

2009/9/30 18:13:00 58

Dongxiang nationality

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The Dongxiang people live in the mountains and hills of the arid hinterland of central Gansu. The four rivers around them are tightly surrounded by Dongxiang: the north is the Yellow River, the west shore is big, the north is Lintao, and the south is the Guang Tong River.

Perhaps because of this closure, she has more fully retained her mother tongue, Dongxiang language and Islamic religious beliefs, as well as the long history and culture carried by her mother tongue, and folk art of art, such as "La La Gao" and "Shi Ni Bi".

Year after year, watch the mountains, and let the Dongxiang people live in the mountains and visit the four sides. Her mind seems to have never been blocked by the waves of the big river and the dangerous mountain water.

From ancient times to the present, some foot brothers, raft guests, rolling felt makers sang the unique folk songs of their hometown.

Flower

"Go all the way to the south of the motherland, and walk through the land of the western part of the motherland."

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were records in the records of the river states: "many vendors in Dongxiang".

"Foot family elder brother" is one of the negative sellers. They are the mules who are carrying the pack and use their feet to measure the hardships of thousands of mountains and rivers.

Usually employed by a wealthy businessman or a small peddler.

The foot brothers run long distances instead of single teams. The gang is a man catching up with four or five mules, and from himself, and the pack is a team of four or five to help the mule to form a mighty team.

Throughout the year or Sichuan, or Shaanxi, or Qinghai, or

Tibet

Or in the capital city of Lanzhou, the hardships they have experienced have long been deposited in an ancient flower with great sadness and bitterness: "one hill and two hills, three slips of hills, and the foot brothers have gone down to Sichuan.

Although the foot brothers of Dongxiang are suffering hardships, they are larks on the ancient Silk Road. They go all the way to sing all the way, and spread the melodious flowers in all directions. They pour out their bitterness and misery, and miss their parents, wives and homestead. However, more love is tearing up the lungs, especially those who are eager to stand in the village.

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Feet brother

The best skill is to "walk mules".

Pressing mule is also called training mule. Its purpose is not to gallop, but to train and walk.

A good mule walked up the mountain path as smoothly and comfortably as a sedan chair.

A good rider saw a mule walking well, and put a bowl of water on the saddle to allow the mule to fly like a bird.

Taking the mule training well, carrying the goods, accompanied by the rhythm of the ring bell, walking with the pace of music melody, he walked with the special training of "straw flying", and came over like a whirlwind.

"Dongxiang flower" sang like this: the whip of the horse was thrown round, and the steps of the mule walked in disorder.

The mule's walking hand is the hydrangea on its tail.

People who engage in water pport are called.

Raft

Customer.

Dongxiang area is surrounded by rivers, so there are more ferry crossing, and there are many tourists in Dongxiang.

According to a brief history of the Dongxiang ethnic group, there are few ferry bridges before 1949, and pedestrians cross rivers by rafts and sheepskin rafts.

Before 1949, the ferry crossing on the Yellow River in Dongxiang had black town crossing, salt field crossing, Hongya ferry and Hejia ferry. The ferry crossing on Tao River had horse Lane ferry, Hongliu beach ferry, and song Dadan ferry crossing.

Rafts will be lumber along the the Yellow River, Tao River, Da Xia rivers and other lumber lumber (each raft has dozens of roots) and then drift downstream along the river.

There are dozens of people supporting rafts on each raft, and dozens of rafts are linked together as a whole. It is the main way to pport timber in Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and other places in the past. At that time, there were more than 1000 Dongxiang families in Dongxiang.

A flower sang like this: "a row of arrows in the canyon, the rafts, the waves, the flower seeds of Shangrao, the paddle plate shook a three point water, and the flowers were in the back of the river."

Rolling felt is also a traditional handicraft of Dongxiang people.

Because Dongxiang mountain ditches deep, more than 2400 meters above sea level, is the alpine zone, blankets are essential for the high and cold zone, so rolling felt is a better skill of Dongxiang people.

There are more kinds of felt in Dongxiang, such as spring felt, sand felt (goat hair) and cotton felt (Mian Yangmao). Usually, there are 46 felt, 57 felt, single felt and felt blankets.

Felt can also be made into felt hat, felt shoes, felt scales, etc.

The Dongxiang felt is famous for its soft, comfortable, symmetrical, clean, beautiful appearance and durability.

The Dongxiang group's rolling felt and long narrative poem "the" La La Gao black "were selected for the second batch of state non-material items announced by the State Council.

cultural heritage

Directories.

Today, the descendants of the Dongxiang family, the brothers, the rafters and the rolling mattsmen, still carry the spirit of eating great hardships and great hardships, singing flowers and coming out of the mountains in the hot years of reform and opening up.

Dongxiang has a long history of hand Catching mutton. It is a unique food culture brand of Dongxiang county. It was known as "Royal bone marrow and Cape lamb" as a tribute of royal family as early as the Yuan Dynasty. It has delicious taste, fresh meat quality, moderate fat content among meat fibers, no smell of mutton, fat and not greasy, favored by consumers. It has been steadily occupied by Linxia and Lanzhou markets and extended to Northwest China.

In the Dongxiang area, "flower" is known as the song of "going out".

Dongxiang people's flower music is very rich, there are sixty or seventy kinds, such as "River State Da Ling", "river state two orders", "white peony order" and so on.

The Dongxiang people's flower music is mostly matched with the lyrics.

Multiple words

Characteristics.

Its mode usually consists of five tones or quotient, and the melody structure is a single segment structure. With a large number of liners in the singing, the tone is loud, long, loud and clear, and very infectious.

Nowadays, the brothers of the foot family and the children of the rafts go to work in the days of going out to work, singing and walking in the song like years, and some of them become singers.

I believe the song of Dongxiang's going out will be more and more distant.