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Chinese musician preserves folk art and rural life of his hometown through music
发布时间:2020-03-31 作者: 奈特英语
"Singing is my life and my life is singing, just like other veteran folk artists living in rural areas. Even when they are speaking, you feel like they are singing."
Zhang Gasong, a folk singer born in a mountain village of Northwest China, yearns to become one with his music.
Incorporating Japanese and English into the folk music of Northwest China, Zhang and his creative music videos have gone viral on Chinese social media, capturing the attention of netizens including Shui Junyi, a well-known Chinese journalist also from Northwest China.
Although Zhang now lives in Dali, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, he still returns to his hometown in Northwest China's Gansu Province every year to search for inspiration.
"I spend two or three months each year walking around rural villages and talking with folk artists in Northwest China. I have talked to more than 100 folk artists. They are so good at diverse folk arts including dance and telling folk stories," Zhang told the Global Times.
Zhang said he is trying to use his music to preserve the culture of the rural villages in Northwest China, which have been changing a lot in recent years, and record the many kinds of folk arts in the region, which are gradually disappearing.
"I am also calling on more people to record and remember all these things that make up the true history of the region together with me."
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