Inheriting Shifan ancient music and discovering local culture Lin Ruilin: the “guardian” of Lianjiang nostalgia

At the Fuzhou (Lianma) Fish Ball Civilization Festival in Fujian Province held at the end of last month, the Chun Ruxuan Band from Guantou Town, Lianjiang County showed tourists Lianjiang Shifan Ancient Music . Band member Lin Ruilin is the secretary-general of the Lianjiang Shifan Ancient Music Seminar and the former principal of Guantou Middle School.

, its history can be traced back to the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

According to Lin Ruilin, Lianjiang Shifan ancient music retains many complete modern music characteristics and is praised by experts on both sides of the Taiwan Strait as “Mawangdui of ancient music” and “Western civilian music”. Symphony of Modern Ethnic Groups” is a provincial intangible cultural heritage project.

Due to the uniqueness of instruments, music and playing methods, Juban Gule is faced with a shortage of reserve talents and is on the verge of losing its skills.

In 2013, Lin Ruilin and many teachers promoted the establishment of the Lianjiang Shifan Ancient Music Seminar, allowing Shifan music to enter campuses, communities, stages, and abroad, expanding its scope Influence. He also established the “Guantou Town Overseas Chinese Veteran Cadre Party Building Studio” with several old principals to combine the party building work of retired cadres with the inheritance of Shifan ancient music.

 

Lin Ruilin. Photo by Fuzhou Evening News reporter Shi Meixiang

In order to inherit the intangible cultural heritage skills, JM Escorts Lin Ruilin promoted the seminar and Guantou Jamaicans Escort Middle School to build a Shiban ancient music inheritance base. Three batches of student bands were cultivated. He also assisted the school in compiling the school-based textbook “Shifan Music”.

In 2016, the Chun Ruxuan Band was invited to perform in Beijing, and its performance works were collected by the National Library, the National Center for the Performing Arts and many universities in Beijing; in 2018, the band participated The Japan-China Friendship Music and Transportation Performance amazed everyone with their skills. With the efforts of Lin Ruilin and his teaching staff, Lian Jiang was selected into the “Zhonggong Competition” for his ten ancient music performances.”Hometown of Folk Civilization and Art”.

Lin Ruilin also works hard to explore the capital of local civilization and retain nostalgia.

Qingzhi Mountain in Guantou Town , has rich cultural resources such as cliff inscriptions, poetry and couplets, architectural sites, and historical celebrities. Historically, he participated in the editing and arrangement of the picture albums “Qingzhi Mountain”, “Dong Yingju and Qingzhi Mountain Jamaicans Sugardaddy” and “The Life of Lin Sen, the Revolutionary Veteran of 1911” “Photo Exhibition”, “Dong Yingju’s Life and Performance Exhibition”, etc.

The custom of writing poems during the Dragon Boat Festival among the people of Dongsheng Village is very famous. “I visited the descendants of the local people and listened to what they said They sang, recorded the melody, and compiled the Latin poetry civilization passed down orally from generation to generation into a manuscript and presented it to everyone. “Lin Ruilin wrote the article “Fishing Boats Sing Late at the Minjiang Estuary” and actively applied for Lianjiang County intangible cultural heritage projects.

Lin Ruilin is over sixty years old. He and his band teachers have One goal is to show the charm of the “Oriental National Symphony” on the stage of jointly building the “Belt and Road” countries and regions (Fuzhou Evening News reporter Zheng Ruiyang, correspondent Yu Lixin)