Singing Along The Way: Lisu People

Lisu girl

In the southwest of China, there is a magical land gathered in famous mountains and rivers. There are towering high gaer Gong mountains, the world-famous Nu River Grand Canyon, and the world natural heritage "Sanjiang parallel flow" natural landscape.

The Lisu People mainly live here because they are accompanied by songs, "salt can not eat one day, and songs can not be sung one day".

The alpine River Valley can not stop the Lisu People's yearning for free passage. They invented the breathless "sliding rope". Men, women, old and young were speeding along the river, and won the reputation of "flying Lisu".

And the construction of the "thousand feet landing room" adapted to the climate features of the mountain gorge makes them the permanent owners of this land.

The natural barrier makes the Lisu People's home far away from the clamour of the outside world, but the enclosed environment can not cover the flying of Lisu songs. Those songs about life and love, those longings for freedom and happiness, those struggles for survival and development, all flow in the mysterious place of this paradise.

The "concentric wine" full of "cloth juice" and "chicken foot paspalum", the fragrant roast suckling pig and the pleasant "Xia La", express the nation's hospitality to friendship and solidarity, life and life.

"Let us all raise our glasses and drink this cup of wine together; we all raise our cups and wish for a better tomorrow"; "you go east, I rush into the west, brotherhood and friendship melt; you pass the mountains, I separate from the water, separated from the mountains and separated from the water."

This Lisu wine song, which is full of joy and peace and bliss with happiness, interprets the harmony of a nation and celebrates the progress of a nation.

This is how the Lisu People turn their homes into "sea of songs" with the passion of their lives.

In this special language, we recorded the long history and unique culture of Lisu, such as "Genesis", "production tune", "escaping marriage tune", "seed melon tune", "shepherd tune", "Jin Zhu tune", "marriage tune", "hunting tune", "vegetable tune", "seed Mai tune", "Fang Fang tune", "tell the tune", "visit to the tune", "please work tune", "birthday tune", "New Year's tune", "funeral song", "funeral tune", "sacrifice tune", "soul song"... Songs, which spread joy, convey hope, songs become history, become culture, songs, and even Lisu People.

The "Lisu folk songs" and "ah Mu shaving" which have been included in the State Council's first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list have confirmed the charm of this poetic existence.