Recently, the Guizhou Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism announced the list of "Guizhou Folk Culture and Art Township" for 2021-2023. Dam District and other 42 are on the list! In order to carry forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, demonstrate the effectiveness of the advantages of folk cultural resources to promote the integration of culture and tourism, and help rural revitalization, a series of reports on "Telling Guizhou's Stories and Inheriting Folk Culture" are specially launched. The reporter of this newspaper will walk into 42 villages, start from the origin of an object and a traditional folk custom, and tell the story of each "hometown of folk culture and art in Guizhou" for readers.

In Huadong Village, Agong Town, Zhijin County, Bijie City, the sound of the flute is melodious in the depths of the bamboo forest. A voice of love, but also a cultural note.

Wang Hongquan is playing the three-eyed flute

Wang Hongquan, inheritor of Sanyanxiao culture, introduced to reporters after lovingly playing the first half of "Across Mountains and Waters, Difficult to Meet": "This piece is handed down from ancestors, expressing the young man's love for the girl, and It has now become an excellent traditional culture.”

In the final of the 13th CCTV National Youth Singer TV Grand Prix in 2008, Yang Dehu, Xiong Zowen, Wang Hongquan, Wang Yunying, Xiong Huafen, Yang Yan from Guizhou composed the original ecological folk song sung by the "Miao Three-eyed Xiao" group, and won the 17th place good grades. It was through this competition that TV audiences across the country got to know for the first time a unique musical instrument used by Miao compatriots in Guizhou - the three-eye flute.

"It was the first time I participated in a national competition, and it was also the first time I went to Beijing. We were very happy and proud. We brought our excellent traditional culture of ethnic minorities to the capital to showcase, and many contestants came to inquire about our musical instruments." Wang Hongquan Say.

Huadong Village, A Gong Town, Zhijin County, the Hometown of Folk Culture and Art in Guizhou

The structure of the "three-eyed flute" is very unique, not only because it has only three sound holes, but also because the production of "three-eyed flute" must use the seven sections of the local unique golden bamboo as the raw material. Rolling Ran".

"Zanran has seven sections, seven sections and three eyes; Ganran can't say what she wants, so she will use it as firewood." After a brief introduction to the three-eyed flute, Wang Hongquan led the reporter to the depths of the bamboo forest to find the materials for making the flute. "Golden Bamboo".

"This looks suitable." He tapped the bamboo with a bamboo chopping knife, and then squeezed it with his hand to measure the thickness. "One, two, three..." The seven sections are cut, which is the raw material for making the flute.

Wang Hongquan is selecting the materials for making the three-eyed flute

When he got home, he used iron pliers to remove the middle section of the bamboo, and used a sickle to cut out the mouth of the flute. With years of experience in making flute, he could accurately find the first sound hole by weighing it with his hands, and took out the red-hot iron from the fire. Clamp, blue smoke rises, the first sound hole has been made.

Then, take the root end of the bamboo tube as the upper end, cut down the 1.5 cm part of the back to form an oblique mouthpiece, and cut a sounding hole at 3 centimeters on the front; above the sounding hole, the left and right are cut into the air blowing fork, which is embedded in the fork. A thin reed made of bamboo. The reed covers a quarter of the sound hole, and the two sides are sealed with rice straw or wheat straw. Drill a sound hole on the back between the holes. After half an hour, the production of the three-eye flute was completed, and Wang Hongquan played the music with ease.

Wang Hongquan is making a three-eyed flute

Passed down from generation to generation, passed down from generation to generation. Today, Wang Hongquan's child, Wang Xianfu, can also play the three-eye flute proficiently, and has also chosen a music major in college.

"The tune played by this xiao is very expressive. It is especially used by young men and women to ask and answer questions when they are in love, so as to convey their feelings to each other. It is a 'sound channel' between Miao compatriots, especially young men and women." Wang Hongquan said.

Sanyanxiao Music and Art Institute, A Gong Town, Zhijin County

In the Sanyanxiao Music and Art Institute in A Gong Town, Zhijin County, there are Miao costumes, traditional looms and other rural cultural memory items.