A Study Of The Boatmen's Horns On The Zhangweinan Canal

As part of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal,the Zhangweinan canal section starting from Qinghe county runs through the whole Gucheng county,and it reaches a length of 75.5 kilometers.It brought unprecedented changes to the life of the people in Gucheng county.At the same time,it also bred rich canal culture,including the Zhangweinan canal boatman's work song studied in this article.Judging from the reference materials available at present,there are few materials analyzed from the perspective of music specialty in the study of Zhangweinan canal boatman's work song in Gucheng county,Hengshui city.This article fills the gap of this study.The Zhangweinan canal boatman's work song was formed gradually in the labor.It was extended in the form of family inheritance,teaching and professional influence.After hundreds of years of inheritance,like a bright pearl,which has important historical,cultural and scientific value.In recent years,although Zhangwei south canal boatman song has been successfully applied for the intangible cultural heritage,but it is very difficult for our inheritance,therefore,the author focuses on the carding of the historical context and the analysis of its score text,so as to record this precious musical event and make contribution to the canal culture study.The article includes the introduction,the main body of the three chapters and the conclusion.Firstly,the article introduces the formation and development of the Zhangweinan canal boatman's name,explaining its formation from the two aspects of the history and culture of the Zhangweinan canal and the generation of the Zhangweinan canal boatman's name.Secondly,it tells the historical evolution of the Zhangweinan canal boatman's name,clarifying the development sequence of the Zhangweinan canal boatman's name from two aspects of the Yuan,Ming and Qing dynasties and modern times.Next,it introduces the artistic features of Zhangweinan canal boatman's work song in detail,including type division,music form,lyrics connotation,situation in the field and other contents,and it analyzes the music noumenon of the existing songs.Finally,this article discusses the cultural value of Zhangweinan canal boatman's work song.The boatman's work song is not only aliving specimen of the canal culture,a concise embodiment of people's unity spirit,but also a precious heritage of public art.To begin with,this article applies the method of literature research to sort out the historical changes of Zhangweinan canal boatman's work song.Then,it excavates the modern form of Zhangweinan canal boatman's work song through the method of on-the-spot investigation.At last,it uses the descriptive research method to summarize its artistic characteristics.