侗族劝世歌评析

The Appreciation of the Dong Nationality

侗族劝世歌应用于两种场合。一种是发生了纠纷的场合,一种是社交活动场合。侗族劝世歌以深入浅出的道理劝人和解,或者劝人从善,有非常好的说服力。侗族劝世歌在社会生活中发挥着十分重要的调适人际关系和引人积极向上的作用。在没有自己民族文字的侗族来说,侗族劝世歌就是人生的教科书和调解文本。它以歌唱的形式和具有文采的歌词而为广大侗族人民所喜闻乐听,很有艺术魅力。

The Quan shi folk song of the Dong nationality is usaually sung on the two occasions.One is the occasion on which people quarrelled with each other and the other on which people take part in social activities.The folk song,which is composed to persuade people to live in harmony and be kind to the offers is very convincing and play a very important role in mediating the relation between persons and educating people to be kind to others.To an minority nationality without its own written Language,the folk song seems just like a text-book of life and a book of the mediation of famity quarrels and isfull of art Charms.Its singing forms and graceful words are deeply loved by the Dong people.