Zhang Zhengqiang, a Yi suona player who lives in Zitang Village, Zhujie Township, Changning County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, is a suona player of the Yi nationality. It has played a positive role in promoting national unity and progress.
Suona performance is called "Chuida" in Changning, and the artist who performs suona is called "Chuuda master". At present, there are still three or four hundred suona tunes circulating in Zhujie Township, and the content is mainly divided into two types: happy tune and worry tune. On different occasions, play different tunes, and play the suona to express emotions, render the atmosphere of the scene, and set off a happy or sad atmosphere. Zhang Zhengqiang, 60 years old this year, is the provincial intangible cultural inheritor of suona music of the Yi nationality in Zhujie. He has been in touch with suona for more than 40 years since he was 17 years old.
In Zhang Zhengqiang's more than 40 years of "wind and beat" career, he not only continued to inherit the skills of his predecessors, but also continued to experiment and innovate. Known far and wide for its unique skills, suona music was named as a provincial, municipal and county intangible cultural heritage project, Zhang Zhengxiang was awarded the provincial intangible cultural inheritor, and the other team members were awarded the city-level and county-level intangible cultural heritage projects. Cultural inheritor. Under the leadership of Zhang Zhengqiang, the Zhujie Yi Suona Team, with its superb skills, has participated in the province's national folk song and dance music competition for many times and won gold medals. Today, suona has become one of the important ways for the Yi people to express their feelings and sing praises for a better life.