Investigation And Study Of Musical Culture On Qi County Club Fire

Qi County is located in central Shanxi, with the rising ofJinzhong Commercial Group in Ming and Qing Dynasties, it becamethe most wealthy financial centre in China. Business booming andrich life provided sufficient power to the prosperity of the cultureand arts. As a collection of music, dance and performance, Club Firewas warmly pursued by the merchants of Qi County for its abundantprograms, the busy scene and the auspicious meaning ofworshipping gods and driving diseases. The larger the scale, thehigher the performing skills. Today, as the representative of ShanxiMerchant Culture, Qi County Club Fire has already become animportant cultural brand in Qi County and Shanxi Province.Nowadays there are more than ten kinds of dance in Qi CountyClub Fire, they are roughly divided into three categories, stavesdance, immersive dance and walking dance. They have negligibleinfluence on the existence of the Club Fire music. Club Fire music isnot a specific musical form, but a constantly changing diverseexistence. Today the life of music and culture has becomeincreasingly rich, Qi County Club Fire mucic shows a fusion oftraditional music and modern music, but it has a general feature,that is, the music always keeps Qi-tai Yangko, drum music and the eight-tones blow and beat as the main body. Hidden behind thisphenomenon, is the identity and adherence of Qi County people fortheir local folk culture. They are a true reflection of the people’slocal accent and folk custom, and it adds vitality into the Club Fireperformance.In addition, according to the theory of John Cage, an Americanavant-garde composer, Qi County Club Fire is filled with a variety ofcheers, talking sound, applause, footsteps and even the voiceresponse from the inner heart of the audience, all those soundstogether with Qi-tai Yangko, drum music and the eight-tones blowand beat, make up the acoustic environment of the Club Fireperformance, can be regarded as a special Club Fire music.Considering the effect of Club Fire music, it doesn’t have ageneral dance music’s function that can promote the developmentof plot, show dance moves, inspire creation of the dancer, and so on.It has an untight connection with the dance, there are loosecooperations between the dance and the musical accompaniment,the musical content and the dance performance. The reason isrelated to the Club Fire’s feature that focus more plastic arts thanplot development, more self-expression than action program.As the two major Club Fires in Shanxi, Shanxi Merchant ClubFire (represented by Qi County Club Fire) and Southeast ShanxiIdolatrous Procession have a significant difference. The Club Fire inQi County has a small scale and short time, emphasizesself-entertainment, improvisation and strong secularity, while theClub Fire in Southeast Shanxi has a large scale and long time,emphasizes sacrifice, program and religiousness. The geographical environment, ghost-god beliefs, economic development as well asthe remains of the Yuehu (one kind of registered musicianhousehold) of two places are the reason for the difference.Qi County Club Fire has deep ties with the local culture and thearts. Qi-tai Yangko originated from Qi County Club Fire in Ming andQing Dynasties, and gradually developed in the Club Fireperformance. With the gradual perfection of the art form, thereappeared a lot of programs that describes the scene of Qi CountyClub Fire, and it again nurtures the Club Fire, enriches the programtype. Qi County Club Fire and Shanxi Opera are homologous. QiCounty Club Fire absorbs Shanxi Opera’s tunes and charactermodeling, Shanxi Opera performance reflects the props and skills inQi County Club Fire, both learn and influence on each other, buildthe win-win situation for the inheritance and development forthemselves.The people of Qi county rely on and combine their naturalenvironment and social environment, then create their ownculture—Qi County Club Fire. The spirit of Shanxi merchant,morality, unity and vigor have outstanding performance in Club Fire.Qi County Club Fire is thriving nowadays, but it doesn’t cover thecrisis that the Club Fire is losing a large number of traditional skillsand some old Qupai. How to Inherit and protect Qi County Club Fireis an urgent problem to Qi County Party commitee, the countygovernment and the Club Fire artists. As the organizers and directparticipants in the Club Fire, they should work harder to solve it.