Suona is a folk wind instrument with a long history, wide popularity, rich skills and strong expressiveness in my country. Its pronunciation is cheerful and bold, high-pitched and loud, with softness in rigidity, and rigidity in softness. It is deeply loved and welcomed by the majority of people, and is widely used in folk ceremonies such as weddings, funerals, weddings, weddings, rituals, music, ceremonies, and sacrifices.
Suona, called "bouying" in Qiubei Zhuang language, is in the same vein as the Han suona. While inheriting the traditional suona tunes of the Han nationality, the Qiubei Zhuang people also integrate the traditional folk music of the local Zhuang nationality, forming the Zhuang suona tunes with obvious regional and national characteristics.
The Qiubei Zhuang suona can be described as a folk musical instrument with great joy and great sorrow. It uses the cyclic ventilation method when playing, and it is done in one go. The tunes are divided into marriage customs and funerals. Wedding tunes are full of festive atmosphere, such as "Crossing the Street", "Opening the Door", "Waiting to the Hall", "Placing the Bowl and Serving Vegetables", "Ancestors", "Toasting", "Thanks", etc.; Funeral tunes The tunes are like “Entering the Door”, “Red and White”, “Funeral”, “Exiting the Funeral”, “Walking around the Coffin”, “Halfway Tie”, “Separate”, etc. Wedding tunes or funeral tunes have rich artistic appeal and sincere emotional expression.
There are more than 100 suona artists of the Zhuang nationality in Qiubei, and there are relatively fixed organizations and performers. The Zhuang Suona has appeared frequently in large-scale folk activities and exhibitions such as the Zhuang "March 3 Festival", the Zhuang "Tasting New Festival", the Yi "Flower Face Festival", and the "Tourism Fair". Hundreds of suonas sing in unison, with a magnificent momentum and a spectacular scene, and are deeply loved by people of all ethnic groups and tourists. As the saying goes, "Suona is the king of all kinds of musical instruments." It is rare for the Qiubei Zhuang people to have so many suona inheritors, so many tunes, so many scales and so many activities. Qiubei Zhuang Suona is simple and mysterious, shocking and magical, and is an important part of Zhuang traditional culture.
In recent years, Qiubei County Culture and Tourism Bureau has strengthened the protection of the inheritance and protection of Zhuang suona, and attached great importance to the inheritance and development of Zhuang suona culture. Zhuang suona performance has gradually shifted from folk ritual music to ritual music for foreign cultural exchanges. The Qiubei Zhuang Suona has taken root in the colorful Zhuang Township and has become a wonderful flower in the large garden of minority culture. It is showing the fascinating beauty of this sentimental landscape with its unique artistic charm.