The Songs Research Of Gelao In North Guizhou

Gelao is an ethnic group in the area of southwest of Guizhou. Gelao live in each counties of Guizhou. What’s more, they have a large population. The folk songs of Gelao in North Guizhou have extensive subjects and they can be devided into: Porter, Brawling Songs, Wedding Wailing Songs, Pastoral Songs and Ceremony Songs. The songs have some breakthrough in the creation, depending on it music characteristic. If we want to know more about the songs of Gelao, we should collect more material about their history, the ways of generation, the law, now environment, development and so on, making they be full of vigour. We should take action to protect Gelao by many ways, such as multimedia keeping, character keeping, education keeping and folk art keeping. And also, we are supposed to find a suitable means of developing for them on the basis of intellectual thinking and objective analysis.