Hakka music from Ganzhou, southern Jiangxi, China
A selection of performances of Anyuan Nan Xiang Da Tang Yinyue (安远南乡大堂音乐), a form of traditional ensemble music of the Hakka (客家) people of the southern towns and villages of Anyuan County (安远县), a rural county in Ganzhou (赣州市), southern Jiangxi province, southeast China. Ganzhou is also known as Gannan (赣南). This music is performed for weddings, funerals, birthdays, and other festive events.
Probably filmed in Anyuan County (安远县), Ganzhou (赣州市), southern Jiangxi province, southeast China, c. 2014.
Anyuan Nan Xiang Da Tang Yinyue began in Kongtian town (孔田镇), the location of Donglin Temple (东林寺), the largest Buddhist temple in the area, which burned in a fire in 1952, causing the temple musicians to scatter. The tradition, which probably inherited elements of the former temple ensemble music, is still centered in Kongtian, although it has also spread to the nearby Fengshan township (风山乡), Zhengang township (镇岗乡), Sanbaishan town (三百山镇), Hezi town (鹤子镇 Longtang township of Dingnan County (定南县的龙塘乡), and Egong Township (鹅公乡). Only ten qupai (曲牌, named tunes), known as the Ten Major Tunes (Shi Da Diao, 十大调), have been handed down to the present.
The group's instruments include suona (唢呐, shawm), houguan (喉管, double reed pipe), dizi (笛子, transverse flute), erhu (二胡, 2-stringed vertical fiddle), and sanxian (三弦, long-necked fretless lute with snakeskin-covered soundbox). Percussion instruments are not used in this tradition. One of the suona players in this video is the only acknowledged master of Anyuan Nan Xiang Da Tang Yinyue, Li Peiqin (李培欽) of Shangzhai village (上寨村), Kongtian town (孔田鎮), Anyuan County (安远县), Ganzhou (赣州市), southern Jiangxi province, southeast China.
The pieces performed in this video include:
● 00:15 - Yin Fan Yang 《阴反阳》
● 04:28 - Suishou Diao 《随手调》
● 09:19 - Ya Que Guo Pai 《鸦鹊过排》
● 13:38 - Dao Shui Lian 《倒水莲》
● 16:54 - Qingting Dian Shui 《蜻蜓点水》
● 22:56 - Guo Jiang Long 《过江龙》
● 25:30 - Bei Ci 《北词》
● 28:34 - Minjian Xiao Diao 《民间小调》
● 40:15 - Minjiang Xiao Diao 《民间小调》
● 49:32 - Liuyang He 《浏阳河》
As late as the 1940s and 1950s, Anyuan Nan Xiang Da Tang Yinyue was a popular pastime in the southern towns and villages of Anyuan County; after farmers had a meal, they would often gather together to play this music for their own enjoyment. However, with the changes of the times and the impact of modern entertainments, this music has been gradually fading out of people's vision and facing the danger of extinction, most of its performers being very old and without much support. Fortunately, through the efforts of the relevant departments of Anyuan County, Anyuan Nan Xiang Da Tang Yinyue is being effectively documented, protected, and passed down. In 2008 Anyuan Nan Xiang Da Tang Yinyue was included in the second batch of the Jiangxi Province Province-Level List of Intangible Cultural Heritage (江西省第二批省级非物质文化遗产名录). Additionally, since 2007 well-received performances of Anyuan Nan Xiang Da Tang Yinyue have been included in local festivals and activities focused on ecotourism and the local orange-growing industry.
The Baidu Baike article about this tradition states that Anyuan Nan Xiang Da Tang Yinyue, with its unique and distinctive artistic features, has been passed down to the present for hundreds of years, showing its tenacious vitality and solid foundation with the local population. It is a little pearl in the treasure house of Chinese folk culture, and has its own unique artistic value.
(安远南乡大堂音乐，以其独特鲜明的艺术特色，几百年来传承至今，显示其顽强的生命力和浓厚的群众基础，作为中国民间文化宝库中的一颗小明珠，有其独特的艺术价值。)
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Probably originated in Southeast Asia,[4] oranges were already cultivated in China as far back as 2500 BC. Between the late 15th century and the beginnings of the 16th century, Italian and Portuguese merchants brought orange trees in the Mediterranean area. The Spanish introduced the sweet orange to the American continent in the mid-1500s.
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