Jingzhou Miao Ge Teng
2024-06-25
According to standards of content, melodies, and styles, Miao Ge Teng can be divided into multiple types such as tea songs, wine songs, rice songs and mountain songs. Its lyrics mostly include seven words and four sentences, mainly sung in the local Miao dialect, covering various aspects such as historical legends, sacrificial rituals, production and labor as well as marriage and love.
Jingzhou Miao Ge Teng is not only an important carrier for recording the living conditions, interpersonal emotional communications and cultural inheritance of the Miao ethnic group, but also has high academic value, artistic value and practical value.
It’s known as the “living fossil of original ecological folk songs”. In 2006, it was selected as one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.
