湄洲岛元宵妈祖信俗活动中湄洲鼓的艺术特征

The Artistic Futures of the Meizhou Drum in Mazu Traditional Religious Activities

湄洲岛元宵妈祖信俗活动中,湄洲鼓地位崇高,无可替代。它是妈祖音乐中古老的一支,更是贯穿整个妈祖文化的精华,在妈祖音乐文化中被誉为"鼓头",在妈祖音乐里占据主导地位;它既有独特的宗教色彩,又散发无穷艺术魅力,更包含丰富的民俗内涵,它的演奏技法成熟、制作工艺精湛,器乐性能稳定,是莆仙地区民间音乐的重要一支;在妈祖音乐文化上千年的历史变更中,它既吸取各家所长,又保留传统演奏风格,并在此基础上不断变革,是海岛劳动人民智慧和精神的体现,更是中国海洋音乐文化的瑰丽流传。

On the Meizhou island, Meizhou Drum plays an important role in the Mazu traditional religious activities during the First Full Moon Festival, which is the most sublime and irreplaceable instrument among all. Meizhou Drum is one of the ohtest instruments in the Mazu cultural music. Iit is essential and penetrates deeply into the entire Mazu culture. It has occupied the leading position in the Mazu cuhural music hence it was hailed as the Leading Drum. Meizhou Drum not otaly has the unique religious shades, but also diffuses infinite artistic charm and contains abundant folklore implication. Its mature performing skills, superb craftsmanship along with the stable instruments performance are all the significant stream of the folk music in Putian and Xianyou area. In the evolution of the lhnusands-years history of the Mazu musie cuhure, Meizhou Drum has absorbed the advantages of other instrumental performing styles. However, it never loses its most aboriginal and traditional performing styles, and even reforms itself continuously on top of what it has. It is the exemplification of the wisdom, spirit of the working people who live on the Meizhou lsland, and the magnificent spread of the Chinese ocean music.