2 23 Guangxi 9th Zhuanghuan Mountain Song Competition was held in Maping Town Photo courtesy of Maping Town Public Cultural Service Center.
In the winter slack time, the masses of Maping Town, Xiangzhou County, Laibin City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, gathered in front of the town's public cultural service center. As a form of singing for the Zhuang people to express their inner feelings, Zhuang Huan has been deeply rooted among the Zhuang people in Xiangzhou County for thousands of years, and the Xi of singing "Huan" has been passed down from generation to generation and has endured.
With a total area of more than 2,000 square meters, the Maping Town Public Cultural Service Center is a well-known "big place", with complete cultural, sports and entertainment functions, including a stage, a rehearsal room, a recreation room, a Zhuanghuan exhibition hall, a book reading room and other functional rooms. The Zhuanghuan Literature and Art Propaganda Group and the Volunteer Service Team of the Rural Practice Station often carry out propaganda and literary training activities here, which is a good place for local people to learn Xi, entertainment and leisure.
Maping Town is a Zhuang township with strong cultural heritage, "Maping Zhuanghuan" was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of the autonomous region in 2010, and Maping Town was also rated as "Guangxi Zhuanghuan Township". In recent years, relying on the local Zhuanghuan culture, the Maping Town Public Cultural Service Center has actively promoted the inheritance and development of Zhuanghuan, promoted the integration of agriculture, culture and tourism in Maping Town, and empowered rural revitalization with a thousand-year-old rhyme.
The world is happy to come out of the horse. "By protecting and inheriting the literary and artistic brand of Haozhuanghuan, which is rich in regional characteristics, the characteristic literature and art have warmed the hearts of the people, and effectively promoted the prosperity and development of Maping's cultural undertakings. Huang Jinghua, director of the Public Cultural Service Center of Maping Town, said that Maping Zhuanghuan is deeply loved by the local people, and doing a good job in the protection and inheritance of Zhuanghuan is a powerful starting point for public culture to empower rural revitalization.
Do farm work during the day, and practice at night. This is a portrayal of the life of Qin Wenjing, a villager in Dadian Village, Maping Town, and most of the villagers. Since the establishment of the "Zhuanghuan Gewei" demonstration site in Dadian Village, the Maping Town Public Cultural Service Center has relied on the volunteer service project of Xiangzhou "Cultural Tourism Partner" and introduced social forces such as Zhuanghuan inheritors, Xiangzhou County History Office, and Guangxi Traditional Craft Incubation Center to carry out Zhuanghuan intangible cultural heritage inheritance training for villagers in Dadian Village. At the same time, it also built Zhuanghuan Square in the village, set up Zhuanghuan Gewei, created Zhuanghuan cultural landscape, and held Zhuanghuan cultural tourism brand activities, which became the golden signboard of Dadian Village, attracting a large number of tourists from inside and outside the province.
In order to build a good brand of "Zhuanghuan Township", the Public Cultural Service Center of Maping Town actively excavates Zhuanghuan resources and improves the inheritance team of mountain songs. In 2013, Maping Town established the Guangxi Xiangzhou Maping Zhuanghuan Research Society, attracting Guangxi singers such as Liao Yinbang, the singer of Guangxi. Over the years, it has continued to organize and carry out training in Zhuanghuan singing, square dance, literary dance, etc., with an average of more than 20 training sessions per year. Organize the Zhuanghuan propaganda group, carry out the activities of Zhuanghuan into the villages, communities, and schools, and help the Zhuanghuan songs to be passed on from generation to generation. Today, there are a total of 17 song polders in Maping Town, and Zhuanghuan inheritance bases have been set up in Maping Middle School and Maping Longxing Primary School. There are more than 360 registered members of the Zhuanghuan Research Society, thousands of folk singers scattered in various towns and villages, and tens of thousands of people who love Zhuanghuan folk songs.
With the deepening of the rural revitalization strategy, the Maping Town Public Cultural Service Center actively organizes and carries out a variety of cultural activities, and organizes more than 50 literary and artistic galas every year by using traditional festivals such as "March 3rd", "Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Chongyang", showing the essence of national culture in the form of grand joy and folk dance. During this year's "March 3rd", the 9th Guangxi Zhuanghuan Mountain Song Competition and the "Bagui Folk Festival, Zhuang March 3rd" folk song meeting was held in Longtou Village, Maping Town. Nearly 100 mountain song lovers from Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Buyi, Gelao, Maonan and other ethnic minorities from Guizhou, Hunan and Guangxi gathered together to stage ancient and modern folk songs passionately, watch beautiful scenery, appreciate folk customs, watch intangible cultural heritage, listen to folk songs, enjoy delicious ......Let the contestants and the people of all ethnic groups on the scene really feel the prosperity of Maping culture and the achievements of rural revitalization and development.
December 9, 2023 China Culture Daily
A special report was published in the second edition.
"Maping Zhuanghuan" has a new sound of thousand-year-old rhyme
Editor-in-charge: Chen Chen.