Baishou song

　　Tujia language is called " club they have ". Tujia wizard TIMA Baishou activity to sing in the series of ancient songs collectively. The Qing emperor Yong Zheng years repair " Yongshun house records, magazine " contains: " every years old of lunar January 3 to seventeen, men and women gathered, Gong, drumming, dancing and singing, were on hand. " Visible Baishou song with his activities, by waving dance is named, and is quite popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. His activities included sacrifice classical instrument Baishou dance, sing, dance, performance Gusi Baishou song Mao, games and other activities, and later increased Zouqinfangyou, be concerned with love and romance, commodity trading and so on.

　　Wave activity is Tujia festivals after the grand festival activities. From the content of the lyrics, Baishou song divided into human and heaven and earth source, national songs, song moved to agricultural production, family life, song song hero story song. The origin of heaven and earth and human sources is TIMA Baishou Song Festival singing the ancient song, with a strong color of the myth and solemn style, is the Tujia nationality creation epic. Other Baishou song content is extensive, involve the Tujia people in all aspects of life, is the Tujia folk narrative poems, narrative poems, labor and heroic narrative poem. Look from formally, Baishou song is sung by Tujia language free verse poetry, have fixed libretto, also have improvised ingredients.

　　Origin of song for fixed line, farming songs much improvisation. Baishou song with its rich splendid content and gray and old forms, constitute a unique epic, is the gem of the Tujia folk literature and essence. In 1989 Yuelu Press published the " Baishou song " is currently the most complete Baishou song collection.