Jizhong Sheng and Guan Ensemble
01 · Historical Records
Dongzhangwu village lies in Luofa Town, Anci District, Langfang City, Hebei Province; the music society current in this village is Buddhist music of the Chan Linji and Caodong schools transmitted together, brought from the temples into the folk at the end of the Qing dynasty. In the Boxer Movement the Dongzhangwu village set up its altar in 1900, and the music society joined in and played a positive part in it.
02 · Core Techniques & Process
Besides wind instruments such as the sheng, guan and flute, Jizhong sheng-and-guan music also uses such percussion instruments as cloud gongs, drums, nao, cymbals and clapper bells. The pieces of sheng-and-guan music fall into three kinds: suites, short pieces and independent sets of percussion music; of these the suites are of great length and complex structure, and form the main part of the whole performing repertory. The repertory of the Dongzhangwu music society is very rich, the most important of it being such famous Buddhist pieces as San Gui Zan, Pu An Zhou and Wang Sheng Zhou. The musicians created pieces such as Shang Ma Tai, E Lang Zi, Pu Ma Zha and Ku Huang Tian to suit the situation of the time, in support of the development of the Boxer Movement. It is particularly worth noting that the musicians of the Dongzhangwu music society once went into battle with the music playing at the Luoha blocking action, so that ancient Buddhist music, as the military music of the Boxers, was drawn into the fighting against the invaders and wrote a stirring and mournful song of Chinese farmers defending national dignity with their own bodies and resisting foreign aggression. In order to commemorate the martyrs and carry forward the patriotic spirit, the Boxer music society of Dongzhangwu preserved these pieces well and plays them on festivals and in the slack season. The Dongzhangwu Boxer music society has more than twenty members today, its instruments are complete, and it can perform skillfully more than thirty pieces.
San Gui Zan
The repertory of the Dongzhangwu music society is very rich, the most important of it being such famous Buddhist pieces as San Gui Zan, Pu An Zhou and Wang Sheng Zhou.
Pu An Zhou
The repertory of the Dongzhangwu music society is very rich, the most important of it being such famous Buddhist pieces as San Gui Zan, Pu An Zhou and Wang Sheng Zhou.
Wang Sheng Zhou
The repertory of the Dongzhangwu music society is very rich, the most important of it being such famous Buddhist pieces as San Gui Zan, Pu An Zhou and Wang Sheng Zhou.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
Jizhong sheng-and-guan music is current in nearly thirty counties and cities south of Beijing, west of Tianjin and north of Cangzhou and Dingzhou; it is a drum-and-wind music peculiar to the Jizhong Plain, popularly called a “music society” by the people, and, because it is led by the guan and accompanied by the sheng and other instruments, also called “sheng-and-guan music”. Jizhong sheng-and-guan music is found all over the Jizhong Plain; the farmers of this region form societies by village, borrowing instruments to meet, and play in local sacrificial rites, funerals and other folk activities, handing it on from generation to generation in their own distinctive way.
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04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
The Dongzhangwu Boxer music society has a history of more than a hundred years of transmission to the present. But as time goes by the music is showing worn-out equipment and a shortage of successors, and needs protection and transmission.
05 · Associated Representative Bearers
Representative bearers recorded under this item, organized by national nomination batch:
- Feng Yuechi 02-0302
- Cai Yurun 02-0303
- Shangxuezhi 02-0304
- Hu Deming 02-0305
- Xia Laofei 03-0849
- Liu Qin 03-0850
- Wang Ruhai 03-0851
- Hu Guoqing 04-1528
- Shi Junping 05-2083
- Shao Shutong 05-2084
- Cai Baoheng 05-2085
- Zhang Zhanmin 05-2086
- Jia Tingxin
- Lizhanglin
- Pan Desen
06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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