The Last Tsar: An Overview of Bulang Culture and Music Culture

Bulang folk songs are rich in content and numerous in tunes. Young people like singing when they get married, move, celebrate the New Year or work. Bulang folk songs are very rich, which can be roughly divided into Suo, Sheng, Zi, Night and Creation. Due to regional differences, some tunes also have their own characteristics. In addition to short songs such as labor songs, folk songs, immigrant songs, hate songs, carols, love songs and children's songs, there are also long lyric poems and narrative poems, such as Bitterness, New Year's Tune, Ai, Chopping Wood and so on.

Daogaolang, popular in Jinghong County, Xishuangbanna, is a long narrative poem describing the love tragedy of Miss Brown and Miss Dai. The stories of Bulang people include legends of mountains and rivers, immigration and rural construction, love stories, animal and plant stories and so on. There are also stories of anti-exploitation, anti-oppression and anti-aggression in modern times.

Various legends about the leader of the Bulang nationality, the "King with Four Eyes and Four Ears". ); The story of beautiful women changing three times a day; Zhang Ai's series of jokes, satirical stories and humorous characters are also full of national characteristics.

Jinghong City of Yunnan Province has strengthened the protection of national intangible cultural heritages such as Dai, Bulang and Jinuo in accordance with the requirements of Notice of the State Council on Strengthening the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Opinions of General Office of the State Council on Strengthening the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China, Regulations on the Protection of Ethnic and Folk Traditional Cultures in Yunnan Province and Regulations on the Autonomy of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture.

Protect Xishuangbanna's unique representative Bayo culture, festival culture, water culture, farming culture, costume culture and song and dance culture, so that Xishuangbanna's colorful national culture and customs can be better inherited and protected.