Hunan Daily, Xinhunan Client, January 24 (Correspondent Yang Jian, Chen Xiaoyou) On January 24, good news came from the provincial capital Changsha that the Golden Yao Nationality Township in Xinning County was named "the hometown of folk culture and art in Hunan Province".
The golden Yao nationality township has a profound cultural heritage and obvious characteristics. The township's "Song of Kunshan Mountain" and "Drum Drum Altar of Eight Yao Mountain" have been included in the list of provincial intangible cultural heritage protection. "Kunshan Song" is an important part of the traditional culture of the Xinning Yao people, the ancestors of the Yao nationality in the long-term production and labor and life process, gradually formed and produced their own unique Yao song, is a positive reflection of their thoughts, feelings and ideals, the main forms are mountain songs (divided into high cavity, flat cavity, hum cavity), trumpet, field song, minor key, custom song and so on.
In addition, the local minor tunes represented by "Four Seasons of Acacia" in the township, the field songs represented by "April Tian Tian August Harvest", the trumpets represented by "Dragging Tree Trumpets", and the custom songs represented by "Yo-Yo Song" and "Toast Song" are all beautifully tunes and distinctive features. In 2013, Xinning County participated in the large-scale mass literary and art performance of "Happy Xiaoxiang" in Hunan Province, and the folk music painting "Yaozhai Sound Rhyme" adapted and performed by using the mountain song Heng Cavity "Just Walking Song" won the third prize of the province.