Folk music "Lahu Love Song" from the album "Music Map of China Hear Yunnan Lahu, Zhuang and Dulong Folk songs Music Collection"

Lahu Love Song. Lahu love song

Folk music Nationality: Lahu Nationality Region: Yunnan

Lusheng: Shang Zesan

As an ancient nation, Lahu has its unique cultural traditions, including its special marriage customs. For a long time, within the Lahu clan, the matrilineal and patrilineal systems existed side by side, forming their two-line extended family and bringing to them a long-standing attitude of equality and affection towards men and women. Today, from the annual lunar June 24 torch Festival to the busy season of spring farming the following year, is the season of Lahu young men and women "string marriage", during this period, they sing and dance, meet their beloved, in the two love after the family presided over the engagement, and held a wedding during the twelfth month and the Spring Festival.

Lahu people love the Lusheng, an ancient musical instrument that has been popular for more than 3,000 years and is favored by the Yi, Lahu, Lisu, Naxi, Miao, Wa, Hani, Li, Nu, Pumi and other ethnic groups. Its shape is a sheng dou made of gourds, with a thin bamboo pipe attached to the mouthpiece and five to seven sheng pipes on top. When the customs of Nanzhao were recorded in the documents of the Tang Dynasty, it was mentioned: "The young people marching in the streets at night, blowing the Lusheng or blowing the leaves, and in the sound, they all express their feelings and call each other."

This Lahu love song played by the Gourd Sheng is full of fresh emotions, as if the scene from acquaintance to love comes into view in the spread and progression of the phrases. At first, like two people with a tentative response, careful approach, look at each other's eyes and hold the caper, then, the melody stretch, like two people relaxed and happy dialogue, the volume of the dialogue with the mood more and more high, the two melodies gradually more and more in tune, intertwined with each other, two hearts closer and closer, more and more warm and happy, irresistible emotions and surprises, It gradually spreads from the heart to the whole body and becomes a joyful dance.