The Xoan and Ghéo folk songs are a unique art form in the land of To, associated with the ancient legend that: Hung King's wife became pregnant, until the date of birth, abdominal pain forever but couldn't give birth. A maid said: Should welcome the beautiful Que Hoa, good at dancing, good at singing, singing and dancing, can help with pain and birth.
The King's wife listened, and invited Que Hoa to come. The voice is clear like a bird singing, the spring is flowing, the limbs are flexible like silk, soft as a bun, making the wife of the King forget the pain of giving birth easily, the Hung King rejoices, praises Que Hoa and transmits to the The princess has to learn to dance.
The head of a Xoan ward (or Xoan family) is a tycoon. The tycoon is an experienced social worker and writes letters to lead a lengthy number of written texts. Each Xoan ward usually has 15 to 18 people or more. Except ward boss, the other members are usually young people aged 16-18. Men called dual, female called peach, the number of peaches often outnumbered the double numbers, only around 15 and 16 years old played the spear drum and cannon cannon. Xoan Ward practices before the summer season. The festival sometimes they sing until a couple of months.
During the singing days at the communal house, the girls dug up towels, patent pants, blouse, and black belts with blue or pink sacks. The first double wrapped scarf or turban, the black shirt, white pants, neck wrapped around interference.
Xoan singing usually starts at dusk, after the ritual of sacrifice. In the family, there are elders, officials and villagers watching. Xoan singing and dancing in the middle chamber called communal house.
Opening the song, the ward boss and the celebrant of the village festival that year stood out in front of the song to sing like a ritual prayer. After finishing singing, a couple of about 15 and 16 wearing in front of a small drum stood out in the middle of the yard to make a spear and cannon spear. These two styles have rhyming in the form of four-letter poetry. Young people play the drum at the same time doing the singing and accompaniment of the collective behind. The empty spear and cannon spear serve as a prayer for the harvest and prosperity of the village.
After the drum spear and cannon cannon, the young uncle retreated to make way for the four girls to sing and sing incense. The four girls stood in line in front of the incense court, their hands lifted the fan spread out in front of them singing and doing the same movement as offering incense. This devotional song is pensive, solemn.
After completing the poem performance, Xoan ward will continue singing. Closed in the semantics is the end of the festival, but actually close the funeral with literary content with lustful romantic colors only ends the first stage in the process of performance.
The second stage in the singing process of Xoan singing is the performance of fruits. There are 14 results: the way Giang, Nham way, Mai mai way, Lower time, Thu time, Four people ...
The language of the fruits reaches the level of virtuosity, the smooth and polished words. Singing fruit is considered as a part of worship. In the past, there were communal houses devoted to one night for wards to take turns singing. Any ward that sings correctly 14 songs will be awarded.
The most interesting and lively part of Xoan singing is the performance of repertoire: Play with a girl (also known as a love affair), sing a walk, sing a flower, crossword puzzles, a flower song.
In Xoan, Ghẹo, and singing, it is a reciprocal scene between men and women. This is also the most attractive and passionate game so people also call Xoan ward as Dam ward.
Price is considered to be the end of the singing process of Xoan singing. This is also a scene of lively, naughty singing and dancing. There are places like in Cao Commerce village, "elders" are the Xoan guilds. The boys gathered in a circle, singing mouths, dancing and swinging hands, dangling like water waves. After finishing singing the sentences, the peaches play the role of the tutelary god to bless the village. After the celebrant's sacrifice, the "eldest" is lifted from the altar to become a human again.
At the end of the performance, the ward boss and the celebrant walked up to the court to sing, a reading of prayer.
Xoan, Ghẹo is a lyrical song, a voice of the soul, an expression of the people and the era, originating from the time of King Hung. It forever has a worthy place in the national folk song.
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