Who is the original singer of Danzhou Tone Classic in Hainan?

Danzhou Tone originated in the Western Han Dynasty, and originated in Sandu, Eman, Tom, Lanxun, Song Lin and Guangcun in the northern coast of Danzhou, Hainan. It is a Han folk song sung in Danzhou dialect, and its genre is similar to folk minor.

The melody mainly expresses love and happy life, and spreads in Danzhou, Sanya, Changjiang, Baisha, Dongfang and other places with the characteristics of beautiful melody and group entertainment. As a result, Danzhou was named "the hometown of Chinese folk art" by the Ministry of Culture.

There is no fixed occasion and time for singing. It can be performed in the slack season and holidays, in hillside fields and township markets, mainly for young men and women to express their feelings with songs, especially on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month.

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There are 278 training teams in Danzhou City, and nearly 10,000 people participate in training performances and sports competitions. The artistic features of Danzhou tune have broken through the inherent forms of expression of folk songs, with endless tunes and active singing. No matter the lyrics, tunes, rhythms, melodies and modes, they are in line with the personality characteristics of young people and are popular activities among the masses.

Danzhou tune mainly refers to that young men and women spontaneously sing songs to express their feelings and love at the township market or hillside during holidays or slack seasons, and hold duet competitions. In particular, the annual Mid-Autumn Festival Song Festival is particularly lively, with thousands of participants.

Danzhou has beautiful tunes, loud singing, enthusiasm and liveliness, with men singing and women answering, which has distinctive local characteristics and unique artistic style. The duet between young men and women in Danzhou is mainly based on tone. When singing, the men's group and the women's group stand in two horizontal lines, with a distance of about 3 meters.

Before the song begins, the players in each column hook their fingers, lead, conduct and choose words from the beginning of the song. The men's team sings first and the women's team answers. After singing the first paragraph, they sang a tune or two instead of musical instruments, and then sang the second paragraph. The formation changes at any time, sometimes in a semicircle and sometimes in a word. The singer hooks his hands and swings his feet back and forth and left and right rhythmically. There is no time limit for the song until it is "finished" (the other party can't answer it).