Chuida
01 · Historical Records
The Jielong wind-and-percussion music is a folk instrumental genre of Jielong Town in Banan District of Chongqing; it had certainly been formally established by the late Ming dynasty. The main tune patterns of Jielong wind-and-percussion music include Da Hao Pai, Chao Pai, Jiang Jun Ling, Shui Long Yin, Nan Luo, Liu Yao Ling and Feng Ru Song. Banan District of Chongqing now has more than 260 bands and nearly 2,000 musicians, and preserves 26 ancient instruments over a hundred years old, four of which are more than 200 years old. In 1991 the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Culture named Jielong Town the 'hometown of folk wind-and-percussion music', and in 1999 it named Jielong wind-and-percussion music one of the 'Ten Great Folk Arts of Bayu'.
02 · Core Techniques & Process
After more than four centuries of transmission, Jielong wind-and-percussion music has developed and flourished considerably. It has three broad categories — wind-and-percussion music, gong-and-drum music, and wind-and-percussion with singing — and seven varieties: the Yaxi mode, the Xiahe mode, the Qingshan mode, kunci, the jiaoyi mode, general's gong and drum, and dance-accompanying gong and drum, with 983 pieces in its repertoire. The bands not only perform often at the weddings, funerals and birthday and longevity celebrations of local people, but have also repeatedly gone as troupes to competitions and performances at municipal and district (county) level, and have been filmed by district, municipal, central and Taiwan television stations into documentary features broadcast nationwide and overseas.
Jiang Jun Ling
One of the tune patterns of Jielong wind-and-percussion music, of magnificent and stirring character, used mainly for celebrations and ceremonial processions.
Shui Long Yin
One of the tune patterns of Jielong wind-and-percussion music, a traditional celebrated piece of wind-and-percussion music.
Liu Yao Ling
One of the tune patterns of Jielong wind-and-percussion music, a survival of the ancient ci-tune tune patterns.
Feng Ru Song
One of the tune patterns of Jielong wind-and-percussion music, a survival of the ancient ci-tune tune patterns.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
Jielong wind-and-percussion music is transmitted in Jielong Town of Banan District, Chongqing, and its surroundings. There are now more than 260 bands and nearly 2,000 musicians, and 26 ancient instruments over a hundred years old are preserved, four of them more than 200 years old; in 1991 Jielong Town was named the 'hometown of folk wind-and-percussion music' by the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Culture. Its main tune patterns include Da Hao Pai, Chao Pai, Jiang Jun Ling, Shui Long Yin, Nan Luo, Liu Yao Ling and Feng Ru Song; the genre is divided into seven varieties, the Yaxi mode, the Xiahe mode, the Qingshan mode, kunci, the jiaoyi mode, general's gong and drum and dance-accompanying gong and drum, with 983 pieces in its repertoire.
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04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
At the same time, the roughly 800,000-character book 'Jielong Wind-and-Percussion Music' and the more than 200,000-character 'New Rhymes of Local Music — Selected Essays on Jielong Wind-and-Percussion Music' have been published. Jielong wind-and-percussion music, with its rich repertoire, its many bands and musicians and the parallel development of theoretical research and artistic practice, stands out among the wind-and-percussion music of Bayu and is quite distinctive. Tang Youlun (official archival record of the associated inheritor): Male, Han nationality, born in 1960, a native of Chongqing. Representative inheritor of the second national-level batch of the intangible cultural heritage item wind-and-percussion music (Jielong wind-and-percussion music). From the age of ten he studied the Yaxi mode from his father Tang Jiazhao, and also learned from Tang Xuzhou, Weng Qinghua, Luo Qingzhong and others; he handles the suona, gong, cymbals, cymbals and drum used in wind-and-percussion music with ease, can perform more than three hundred pieces, and served as deputy director of the Jielong Folk Wind-and-Percussion Art Troupe, taking part many times in national and provincial and municipal performances and winning awards. Li Zichun (official archival record of the associated inheritor): He has mastered all the original tune patterns and pieces of the 'Li family troupe' and the whole set of skills in kunci wind-and-percussion — suona playing, gong and drum percussion and the singing of the words — and at the same time the performing skills of such varieties as the Qingshan mode and the Yaxi mode. Both his suona playing and his gong and drum percussion can be called superb. Male, Han nationality, born in March 1964, died in April 2011, a native of Chongqing. Representative inheritor of the third national-level batch of the intangible cultural heritage item wind-and-percussion music (Jielong wind-and-percussion music). He trained the sixth generation of inheritors of the 'Li family troupe' and guided that sixth generation in training a seventh generation, and saved 'kunci', this Bayu wind-and-percussion genre, from loss.
05 · Associated Representative Bearers
Representative bearers recorded under this item, organized by national nomination batch:
- Tang Youlun 02-0296
- Zhang Dengyang 02-0297
- Li Zichun 03-0845
06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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