重庆、四川自古有着舟楫之利,川江水路运输行业有着久远的历史。然而川江上,航道曲折,山势险峻,水急滩多,全程水位落差较大,特别是险要的三峡出川。在千百年的木船航运时代,江上木船的动力却来自船工的身体。每当逆江而上或者船过险滩的时候,船工们拉着纤艰难地前进着,同时,从他们的嗓子里会进发出一种充满力量的声音,这就是川江号子。川江号子是川江船工们为统一动作和节奏,由号工领唱,众船工帮腔,合唱的一种一领众和式的民间歌唱形式。川江号子,有即景唱景,有狂野情歌,有戏谑的玩笑……代代船工口传心授。如今,川江号子已形成了数十种类别和数以千计曲目的川江水系音乐文化．滚滚川江上,仅凭川江号子的起伏,人们就能描摹出一条跌宕起伏的“江”。“一条大江走下来,平水、上滩、抢滩、下滩、一套复杂的号子就全部演绎完成了。”平静的江面,船工会唱起旋律舒畅、悠扬动听的“平水号子”；而在凶滩恶水,会唱起气促紧张、惊心动魄、高亢尖利、气势夺人的“上滩号子、拼命号子”；交替重叠,领唱和声,呼哨长啸与短促合应,相互交织,构成复杂的多声部合唱织体,音乐丰 Chongqing, Sichuan has a boat from ancient times the benefits of the Chuanjiang water transport industry has a long history. However, on the Chuanjiang River, twists and turns of the waterway, the steep mountains, water and many beaches, the larger the water level gap, especially the Three Gorges dangerous. In the era of thousands of years of wooden shipping, the power of wooden boats on the river comes from the boatman’s body. Whenever the river up the river or the ship crossed the ravine, the shipmen struggled hard while marching, at the same time, from their throats into a powerful voice, which is the son of Chuanjiang. Chuanjiang son is a uniform action and rhythm of the Chuanjiang boatman, led by the number of workers, boat workers help, a chorus of public and public form of folk singing. Chuanjiang son, there King Kong King, a wild love song, joking jokes ... ... generation boatman oral heart granted. Today, the Chuanjiang son has formed dozens of categories and thousands of tracks of the Chuan River music culture. On the Chuanjiang River, only by the ups and downs of Chuanjiang’s son, people can trace an ups and downs of the “river.” “A river to go down, Ping Shui, on the beach, beach, beach, a complex set of numbers on the completion of the deduction.” Calm river, the boatman will sing melodious, melodious “flat water son” and In the fierce flood, will sigh breathtaking, soul-stirring, high-spirited profit, imposing momentum “on the beach son, desperately sign”; alternately overlapping, lead singing harmony, whistling shouts and short coexistence, intertwined , Constitute a complex multi-part chorus tissue, music abundance