On January 29, Yang Chen, a professor of the School of Music and Dance of Yunnan Normal University, who had just finished the Spring Festival holiday, led the team to arrive at Di Shi Village, Azahe Township, Honghe County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and began the field research in the new year. The field research on the research of wind instruments of ethnic minorities in southwest China is planned to continue until the end of February. During this period, the collected instruments of ethnic minorities will be enriched into the collection of the "Digital Exhibition Hall of Intangible Cultural Heritage Music and Dance Education Resources in China, South Asia and Southeast Asia". The exhibition hall was built by Yunnan Normal University at the end of last year. It is the first musical instrument exhibition hall in China that focuses on the display of minority musical instruments in southwest provinces and radiates the characteristic musical instruments of South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Collect more than 300 national musical instruments in ten years

On February 12, Yang Chen met the Wa artist Yan Cong for the third time in the village of Nataoba, Mengka Town, Ximeng County, Pu'er City. Yan Cong is one of the rare "treasure masters" who can make more than 8 musical instruments in Yunnan. The first time the two met was in 2016. Yan Cong was the first folk artist Yang Chen started the research and visit of ethnic wind instruments. The second meeting was in 2018, when Yang Chen took two fellow disciples to record Wa musical instruments. This time, he took his graduate students to visit Yan Cong for the third time and recorded his performance of "Orphan Tune" and "Dance Tune" with the newly made Wa instrument "De" and "Kuiyam". The old man inadvertently said, "I will rely on your young people to publicize when I'm gone", which made Yang Chen deeply moved

In the past ten years, Yang Chen and his graduate team have conducted field investigations in ethnic minority villages in southwestern provinces, visited more than 200 folk artists, and collected more than 300 ethnic musical instruments, most of which are hidden in the "Digital Exhibition Hall of Intangible Cultural Heritage Music and Dance Education Resources in China, South Asia and Southeast Asia". "The rich and colorful ethnic musical instruments have valuable original characteristics, but there is an urgent need to inherit. Therefore, in the future work, we should strengthen the digital collection of instrument selection, production skills, performance and interviews with grassroots folk artists, which is an important basic work for the study of ethnic musical instruments." More than half of the time of this field research, he has collected the Wa "Wo", "Kuiyam", "Silo" More than 20 musical instruments, such as Hani "Meiba", "Rabi" and Yi "Fili", will continue to be added to the collection of the exhibition hall.

The musical instrument exhibition hall makes full use of the wall to display musical instruments

Radiate the characteristic musical instruments of South Asia and Southeast Asia

China - The Digital Exhibition Hall of Intangible Cultural Heritage Music and Dance Education Resources of South and South-East Asian Countries is the first exhibition hall in China built by Yunnan Normal University, which focuses on the display of minority musical instruments in southwest provinces and radiates the characteristic musical instruments of South and South-East Asian countries. Yunnan is located in the southwest border of China, bordering Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, and adjacent to South Asia and Southeast Asia. In recent years, Yunnan has made great efforts to promote the construction of a radiation center facing South Asia and Southeast Asia, and has taken various measures to build a new highland for opening up, and made new progress in promoting opening up through innovation. Yunnan Normal University has promoted the collection and digital development of musical instruments and music and dance in China, South Asia and Southeast Asia through the construction of musical instrument exhibition halls.

There are more than 200 musical instruments in the museum, including Miao and Dong Lusheng, Bouyei and Zhuang sister xiao, Yao Niujiao horn, Zhuang Tianqin, Dong and Dong Pipa, Lusheng flute, Yi Erhu, Sixian, Yi, Lahu, Wa, Lisu Hulusheng, Tujia, Yi, Miao Suona, Han Pipa, bamboo flute, Indonesia Anglon, Laos Paisheng, India Tabra drum, etc. "The view of the musical instrument exhibition hall is not limited to Yunnan. In addition to the traditional musical instruments of ethnic minorities in southwest China and Han nationality, it also displays the characteristic musical instruments of South Asia and Southeast Asia, which is very helpful to understand the cultural origin of South Asia and Southeast Asia.

In addition to the musical instruments collected by Yang Chen and his team, the musical instrument exhibition hall also received donations from teachers and folk artists of Yunnan Normal University. For example, Su Bingye, a teacher of Yunnan Normal University, donated her traditional Chinese lute, which she has collected for many years, to the exhibition hall, and Xu Weisheng, the inheritor of Guangxi Yao intangible cultural heritage music and dance, donated five musical instruments made by her, including the traditional Yao Lusheng, the multi-tube Yao Lusheng, the Han Yugu, the Yao Long Drum, and the Zhuang Bone Hu.

Xu Weisheng is the singer of the "Song of the Twelve Family Members of the Yao Nationality in Fuchuan, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region", "Song of the Song of Candles", "Song of the Thousand Cave Sources", "Song of the Young Embroidery", the folk dance of the Yao nationality "blowing sheng and stepping on drums", and the performer of the "Yao Eight Tones". When donating musical instruments, he explained the production process of five folk music and dance instruments for teachers and students in detail, and introduced Guangxi Yao folk music, including folk songs, dance, ritual music, etc. "Folk artists are very simple. During field research, some folk artists even talked with the interviewer about giving us musical instruments." Yang Chen said that these ethnic musical instruments may not sell much on the market, but they are priceless for the musical instrument exhibition hall, and the music culture they carry cannot be measured by money.

Use public space to create music atmosphere

Unlike the common exhibition halls with independent exhibition halls, the digital exhibition hall of intangible cultural heritage music and dance education resources in China, South Asia and Southeast Asia is built by using the public space on the first floor of the college and the periphery of the concert hall. This is the second exhibition hall in colleges and universities in southwest China to use public space for exhibition after the Instrument Exhibition Hall of the Conservatory of Music of Guangxi Normal University. The musical instrument exhibition hall creates a regional music culture atmosphere in the school. Every time the teachers and students pass the hall on the first floor of the teaching building, they can "meet" the musical instruments displayed here. "In the past, foreign students came here to study, and some of them did not have the opportunity to contact with Yunnan minority musical instruments for several years, which is very regrettable." Yang Chen said that the musical instrument exhibition hall is an important platform to improve the cultural characteristics of the college, promote the development of the college discipline, and improve the quality of students.

The layout of the exhibition hall should not only take into account the ethnic division and types of musical instruments, but also take into account the beauty. The exhibition location should be adjusted according to the shape of musical instruments, so that visitors can enjoy the sight. The building area of the musical instrument exhibition hall is only 375 square meters, but the hall on the first floor of the teaching building is six meters high, and the wall display space is sufficient. "We should make full use of the wall to display musical instruments." Yang Chen and his graduate team cooperated with Guo Che, a teacher of the Academy of Fine Arts, and his exhibition design team to discuss and repeatedly modify the layout design. The exhibition hall was divided into three parts: the West Gate Hall exhibition area, the South Gate Hall exhibition area, and the North Corridor exhibition area. A fixed display cabinet was built on the wall of the hall to display musical instruments, and more than 20 independent display cabinets were equipped on the ground to display some details of musical instruments. Hu Yanyang, a graduate student in the team, also wrote a paper on the curatorial study of musical instruments in the exhibition hall.

In the new semester, the instrument exhibition hall will be closely combined with classroom teaching. "Before, many of the instruments explained in the classroom only stayed on the slides. Now, students can not only see the physical instruments, but also see the appearance of folk artists playing and hear the sound of the instruments. This intuitive feeling is very helpful for understanding the instruments and feeling the music." Yang Chen said that the future instrument exhibition hall will continue to adjust the exhibition content, develop and expand the exhibition space, And use network technology and digital technology to improve the influence and comprehensive exhibition capacity of the musical instrument exhibition hall.