The Cultural Memory and Contemporary Inheritance of Manchu Folk Songs in Sijitun,Heilongjiang Province:Sorting and Thinking Based on He Shihuan's Dictation
He Shihuan,an old woman from Sijitun in Heilongjiang Province,is known as a"living fos-sil of Manchu language".She is one of the few old people who communicate in Manchu language every day.Her life witnessed the development and changes along the Heilongjiang coast over the past century,and her oral stories also presented the local distinctive Manchu folk customs.On the basis of field research,this arti-cle applies Yang Asman's cultural memory theory,combined with He Shihuan's dictation and the oral per-formance of Manchu folk songs,music score and song content analysis,to reproduce the wishes and emo-tions of Manchu people,such as praying for a better life,hoping for the continuation of the ethnic group,and criticizing the poisonging of the old society.Finally,the article summarizes the contemporary inheritance of Manchu folk songs,in order to provide reference and inspiration for the contemporary inheritance and devel-opment of Manchu folk songs.
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