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Rong media reporter Zheng Ye Chen Lanqing
"A long time ago, the conch on the head of the shell mound was filled with "Open a big ship, go fast, start a big house"... Recently, in the Pingtan Shell Hill Head Ruins Park, the "Pingtan Shell Hill Head - South Island Language" 2021 original song collection activity ended, and the top ten songs and gold, silver and bronze award songs were released. The song "Hometown of the Austronesian Language Clan", composed by Pingtan musician Lefeng and co-written by Pingtan writer Yu Xiaoyan and Lefeng, was selected as one of the top ten songs and won the Silver Award.
Hometown
Nursery rhymes sing fishing songs full of sea flavor in the lyrics
"Tangpu people, drive a big boat, hurry up, get up the big house, please the old wife, raise the boy Jun, make a room shop, cheer..." The Pingtan dialect nursery rhyme at the beginning of "The Hometown of the Austronesian Language Clan" is sung, which is very island-specific.
Why the song uses dialect nursery rhymes, lyricist Yu Xiaoyan said: "Pingtan dialect belongs to the Fuzhou language family, and it is very distinctive for singing. 'Tangpu people' refers to men, Pingtan is born to the sea, Pingtan men mainly rely on going to the sea to make a living, and in pingtan customs, starting a house, giving birth to a baby, and pleasing a wife are all major events in life. Dialect nursery rhymes are catchy, funny, and the most authentic Arashishima life. ”
"I grew up in Pingtan, picking snails by the sea, picking grass in the casuarina field, and singing Pingtan songs when sheding cattle, so this time I specially injected island elements when composing music." Lefeng said that dialects can be described as "sound birthmarks", while folk songs can dig out the local culture.
LeFeng graduated from the Fuzhou Cultural and Educational Vocational Secondary School Music Class in the late 1980s, and in the dilemma between the admission of the Music Department of Xiamen University and the recruitment notice of the Military Cultural and Labor Corps, he resolutely chose to seek art from the military. After more than 20 years of military career, lefeng devoted himself to military bands and military literary and artistic creations, and his works were deeply loved by officers and soldiers, and now he works in the provincial organs, often using his personal hobbies to create songs.
In order to write this original song, the music style can be described as a lot of effort. He believes that Pingtan has a profound musical cultural heritage, and pan poems, ciming operas, fishing songs and even lullabies sung by Grandma are all unique musical expressions of Pingtan. Pingtan's musical code is formed from bits and pieces of life, which has been formed over thousands of years, and is also the historical and cultural treasure of Pingtan.
"I think it makes sense to be able to love a city because a song can fall in love with a song. I hope that pingtan musicians can gather strength and write songs that can advocate for the promotion of international tourism in Pingtan. LeFeng said.
↑ Illustration by Zhao Shu based on the song "Hometown of the Austronesian Language Clan"
Roots
Write the original nostalgia of Pingtan Wanli search for roots to summon the wanderer to return
Lefeng left his hometown for decades, in the face of the earth-shaking changes in Pingtan, after learning about this original song collection, his heart surged with creative inspiration.
The prehistoric sites of Pingtan are the city's precious historical wealth, with unique regional cultural characteristics such as "sea silk", coastal defense, fishing and farming. The Shell Hill Head Site is the earliest Neolithic site found in the coastal area of Fujian Province, and it is also a key area identified by the international academic community as a key area for the study of Austronesian language groups.
"Yunshu Thousand Cranes, Hai na Bai Chuan, the beautiful Haitan is the hometown of the Austronesian language family..." The lyrics express the feelings of the wanderers wandering in the South Pacific to find their roots and migrate to their homeland.
"The Austronesian language family probably originated more than 6,000 years ago, migrating from the southeast coast of Chinese mainland to Taiwan and then to the Pacific Ocean. Their descendants are scattered in the island countries along the Pacific Ocean, and in 2011, they rowed a canoe for more than three months to find their roots in Pingtan, which is the nostalgia for their hometown and the nostalgia of the wanderer. Le Feng explained.
In addition, "Shellfish in hometown", co-created by Lefeng and Pingtan writer Yizhou, was also selected as one of the top ten songs of this event. The music style of more than half a hundred years old has created dozens of songs and songs for his hometown so far. "Winning the Silver Award this time is the biggest encouragement to us, and we hope to successfully launch the symphonic suite of "Kirin Soaring"." LeFeng said. At present, Lefeng is creating a long symphony suite describing the thousand-year-old culture of Pingtan Island, "Qilin Soaring", which will integrate taiwan's "hometown" cultural elements, such as the fusion of Taiwan's ethnic minority instruments and songs.
"This collection of original songs can also be expanded into works of art such as music, painting and dance, so as to better promote the highlights of the Austronesian language family and combine archaeology with cultural tourism." Fan Xuechun, president of the Pingtan International Austronesian Language Research Institute, said.
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Le Feng, a musician from Pingtan, was formerly a full-time composer of the army and the leader of the military band, and is now part-time assistant to the artistic director of the Fujian Symphony Choir and a resident composer.
Since engaging in the literary and artistic work of the army, he has created hundreds of songs, as well as many symphonic suites, wind music, choruses, instrumental music, and dance arrangements, among which the military works "When a soldier is in Coastal Defense, the wind is flowing and magnificent", "I am a company target reporter", "Daddy's Eyes" and other compositions have won the first prize of the army parade. The music creation of many of his films and television series has also won the Excellent Music Creation Award, etc., and songs such as "Hometown Pingtan", "One Word Nostalgia", and "Wind Exhibition Red Flag Like Picturesque" have received strong responses.
Home of the Austronesian language family
Lyricist: Le Feng Xin Tong Composer: Le Feng
Tangpu people ah / open a big boat ah / fast and fast / up the big house
Pleasing the old woman / Raising a boy Junya / Noisy hall shop / Rejoicing
The wind blows through the hills and across the ocean through the island
The Austronesian language clan is full of natural sounds
Travel along the South Pacific in search of your hometown
Along the road of the shell hill, the sea becomes mulberry field, which is the original hometown of the Austronesian language family
Once in a thousand years The beautiful Haitan temple is the hometown of the Austronesian language family
On that hill, stone was laid to build a home
The Austronesians chopped the waves The sound of life stirred
Crossing the strait through vicissitudes to find the original hometown
Along the road of the shell mound, the vicissitudes of the sea are a smile that has been passing for thousands of years
Yunshu Thousand Cranes Haina Baichuan The beautiful Haitan is the hometown of the Austronesian language family
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Source: Pingtan Times