侗族大歌的保护与传承

侗族属于古代百越民族骆越人的一支，主要居住在湘、黔、桂三省区交界处，周边峻岭连绵、群山阻隔、外出艰难，历来封闭。这导致其浓郁的原始遗风及其群居生活长盛不衰。侗族大歌从产生到繁荣和发展的过程，就是与自身的生态环境不断发生关系的过程。侗族的社会发展、自然环境、审美意识、社会习俗等决定了侗族大歌的内容和形式，它负载着侗族文化的传承与发展，有着流行音乐所不可取代的功能和作用。而侗族大歌的保护与传承对西部民族文化的发展有着十分重要的意义。

Protection and Inheritance of the Big Song of Dong Nationality

I myself took part in the ninth annual convention of Chinese minority nationality music,that was the Big song seminar of Dong Nationality at Liping county of Guizhou province,in september 2002 and proceeded the thorough investigation and research in the region of Dong nationality and composed this thesis,on the base of the analysis of the current situation of the Big song of Dong nationality.The article was composed of three parts :(a)The existing environment of the Big song of Dong nationality;(b)The Big song and the folk culture of Dong nationality; (c) The protection and inheritance of the Big song of Dong nationality.The article primarily discussed how to protect and inherit the music of minorities in the development of western region and promote the traditional music culture in the modern society.