A New Way to Inherit the Living Culture of Fishing Songs of Poyang Lake

Fishing Songs of Poyang Lake, with the changes of production modes and living conditions, has appeared a tendency of partial disappearance and even an inclination of being forgotten by history, like many intangible cultural heritage cultures. However, Poyang square dance has injected a new vitality into Fishing Songs of Poyang Lake and Poyang Fishing Drum. The living inheritance to Fishing Songs of Poyang Lake conforms with General Secretary Xi Jinping’s thought of “living inheritance of traditional culture”. By drawing attention to the explicit influences of square dance, a national fitness movement that enjoyed the largest population, on the inheritance of traditional culture, the article probes into the internal connection between Fishing Songs of Poyang Lake, Poyang Fishing Drum and Poyang square dance. By adopting material method, surveying method and inductive method, the paper focuses on artistic elements such as Daoqing, rap, music and dance in Fishing Songs of Poyang Lake, makes comparative studies on the clothing, props, forms, creation and performance of works in the Poyang square dance, and explores a new path to the living inheritance of Fishing Songs of Poyang Lake.