"The village and village beat the drum and beat the gong, and Ah Wa sang a new song. Chairman Mao's glorious eyes shone on the frontier mountains and laughed at the people, and the people's commune built a bridge of happiness. Alas, the road gets wider and wider.
"Hey, Jiang Sanmu Luo, the village village hey beat the drum and beat the gong, ah wa sang a new song." Chairman Mao's brilliance illuminated the frontier mountains, laughing at the water and laughing at people's joy. The people's commune has built a bridge of happiness, and the road is getting wider and wider.
"Oh river Sanmu Luo, mountains and mountains, songs, red flags fluttering, flashing silver hoes falling." Chairman Mao called for learning from Dazhai, the qing river on the slopes of the river, and the green terraces of tea gardens to turn over the golden waves. Hey, dazhai flowers bloom in thousands of thousands.
"Hey, Jiang Sanmu, the people of all ethnic groups are united and moving forward, and their ambitions are shaking the mountains and rivers." Chairman Mao said what the Wa people did, followed By Chairman Mao and followed the Communist Party. Oh, the Wa people sing new songs and sing new songs; hey, Jiang Sanmuluo, follow Chairman Mao, follow the Communist Party. Hey, the Wa people sing new songs and sing new songs, hey, Jiang Sanmuluo..."
Speaking of "The Wa People Sing New Songs", the people of the whole country are familiar with it.
This song, which was created in the early 1970s, quickly swept the country and became popular among the population as soon as it was sung.
Yang Zhengren, songwriter and military songwriter, said: "This warm and sincere song is written for gratitude and for a hard-working, kind, simple and brave nation. ”
The sight returns to Lancang, the secret place of southwest China.
In this secret place, the ceremony of the traditional marriage custom of "Wa Prince" Yan Kun and "Brown Princess" Yuhong is being held - "tethering the line".
At the scene, 82-year-old Yang Zhengren also came. After inquiring, I learned that he was Yan Kun's righteous father.
"When I was a soldier in the Pu'er area, I met Yan Kun, whose parents died early, and became his righteous father. Decades have passed, and now that the child has finally started a family, my righteous father can also rest assured. ”
In the hearty laughter, Yang Zhengren's honesty and boldness were revealed.
This Bai old man also witnessed the scene of the Wa and Brown people getting married at this time. For him, the wish was enough.
The first time I dabbled in the secret realm, I felt a lot
Since childhood, Yang Zhengren has loved music very much; every time he has music lessons, he is as happy as a festival.
After class, he has a "hobby": he often stands outside the window of the rehearsal room of the song and dance troupe and listens to others playing; when he is lucky, he can also hear the folk musician Lei Mantian playing the violin in the street teahouse.
When he was in middle school, Yang Zhengren developed a strong interest in "writing songs".
When he first started learning to write small songs, he was praised by teachers and classmates. When he entered Kunming Normal School, he took music lessons as a kind of enjoyment, not only learning to play the accordion, violin, erhu, but also learning to play the flute and flute.
In the appreciation class of Chinese and foreign famous songs, he was influenced by songs such as "Su Wu Shepherd", "Man Jiang Hong", "Shen Sha Falling Geese", "Evening outside Moscow", "Hawthorn Tree" and other songs, laying the basic skills for future composition.
Sometimes the loneliness and quietness of the heart are the most idyllic prosperity of a person...
In 1961, Yang Zhengren graduated from Kunming Normal Secondary School and did not become a teacher. Like many young people of that era, he preferred to "defend his family and defend the country" to become a soldier, and was assigned to the Wa areas on the border of Yunnan.
At that time, the average person did not know much about Wa Mountain, and it was rumored that the Wa were a mysterious people.
Sitting on the big truck rushing to Wa Mountain, Yang Zhengren, a small soldier of the age of a student, saw a Wa woman carrying a bamboo basket, smiled and revealed a mouthful of blood-red teeth, and couldn't help but feel uneasy in his heart.
When he arrived at The Wa Mountains of Ximeng, Yang Zhengren was assigned to the regimental headquarters of the border defense force two kilometers away from the county seat of Ximeng as a signal soldier. This regiment is affectionately known as the "Old Eighth Regiment" by the local Wa compatriots, and the relationship between the military and the people is deep.
There is a road in the regimental courtyard, and the Wa compatriots often pass through the middle of the courtyard... Planting and harvesting, marriage and funeral, big things and small affairs, fellow villagers will always go to the army for help.
Yang Zhengren later understood that the blood-red teeth of the Wa women seen on the road were caused by chewing betel nuts.
After understanding and contacting, he found that the Wa people can sing and dance, treat people sincerely and purely, and have a rough and bold personality, so he gradually fell in love with this nation.
A song that became famous and has been sung to this day
The wa mountains are beautiful and colorful, but they are wet and foggy all year round.
On the walls of the barracks in those days, newspapers were often pasted to prevent moisture, but over time, the newspapers would become moldy and mutilated.
“...... The phoenix entered the mountains and greeted the birds, Ah Wa liked the People's Liberation Army, the People's Liberation Army helped Ah Wa to engage in production, and then helped Ah Wa to turn around. A vine blossoms two flowers, a vine knots two melons, vines and vines melons melons, Wa liberation is a family..."
One day, Yang Zhengren saw a few words in the newspaper on the wall and felt that these few poems wrote the mood of the Wa compatriots. He liked it very much, and immediately spread out the manuscript paper, and the joyful and bright melody was presented in the pen after a few minutes.
The song, titled "Ah Wa Liberation is a Family", affectionately praises the People's Liberation Army stationed on the frontier and reveals the love of the Wa people for their sons and soldiers.
The year was 1963, and Yang Zhengren had just turned 23.
The rings of time, burning the glory of history.
As a young man, he did not expect that the songs he had created at random would be published in music newspapers.
Next, this song was selected by the National Defense Cultural and Labor Troupe of the Kunming Military Region for rehearsal, and brought to Beijing to participate in the all-army literary and artistic performance for singing, and won the all-army excellent program award. After that, it was broadcast by the Central People's Radio for a week and was widely circulated in the motherland.
This is the first Song written by Yang Zhengren with Wa characteristics.
He said gratefully: "If it were not for the idea of serving the motherland with military service as an obligation and carrying a gun to serve the motherland, it would have been impossible to contact the ethnic minorities on the border of Yunnan, let alone learn about their colorful music and dance." ”
The most beautiful scenery is not at the end, but on the road.
After Yang Zhengren became a signal soldier, in peacetime, in addition to participating in the normal military training of the company, he also had to go to the mountains and fields to do line work, so that there were many opportunities to contact the compatriots of the minority nationalities.
The Wa people deeply touched Yang Zhengren, and he was determined to write a song for them, a song that could express the spiritual outlook of the Wa people and sing the new life of the Wa people.
"Villages and villages, drums beating gongs, Wa singing new songs. The Communist Party shines brightly on the frontier, the mountains and rivers laugh at the joy of the people, socialism is good, the bridge of happiness is built, and the road is getting wider and wider. The mountains and mountains sing, the red flags flutter, and the silver hoes fall..."
I have never seen a storm, where the wind is light.
This song "The Wa People Sing a New Song", Yang Zhengren repeatedly revised and polished; 7 years later, this song was published in the "New Song of the Battlefield".
As soon as the song was published, it was forwarded by several publications. Since then, the song has been recorded by a number of audiovisual units. When the Red Sun tape containing the song was released in 1991, it had a circulation of more than 5 million boxes.
Before this, this song has long been spread throughout Yunnan, singing the motherland's great rivers north and south, and going to the world.
This song lets the world know that there is an ethnic minority in China called the Wa, who are members of the big family of the Chinese nation.
The Wa compatriots are proud to sing this song and love their homeland and motherland even more.
Returning to my hometown is full of emotions
For many years, the Wa people called Yang Zhengren a precious "jewel" and nobleman of the Wa people.
Yang Zhengren said: "We should thank the Wa compatriots and the brothers of the ethnic minorities in the frontier." Because my creative passion comes from their sincerity, kindness, simplicity and purity, diligence and bravery; creative nutrition comes from the colorful music and dance of ethnic minorities. Being able to write songs for them is a kind of reward for my Wa compatriots. ”
"The Wa People Sing a New Song" has been circulated for more than 40 years, because of its strong Wa characteristics, many people still think that "the author of this song must be a Wa". But in fact, Yang Zhengren's birthplace, Guanyin Mountain Village, Xishan District, Kunming, Yunnan, is nearly 800 kilometers away from Wa Mountain.
Over the years, yang Zhengren has not only written songs with wa characteristics, but also composed many songs with the characteristics of other ethnic minorities. For example, Erhu solo "Lahu Joyful Song", Dai music and dance "Tube Skirt", Bai song "Erhai Sisters Sing throat", etc., many works have won awards in Yunnan Province and national competitions.
Yunnan' magical and beautiful fertile land and colorful national music have nurtured generations of musicians and contributed to the birth of the famous song "The Wa People Sing New Songs".
The mountains and rivers tirelessly read the article, the sun and the moon bloom because of you...
One day in 2019, the village of Ban Zhe in Mengka Town, Ximen County, was lively early, and the villagers beat gongs and drums, sang and danced, and welcomed a special guest, who was Yang Zhengren, the songwriter of "The Wa People Sing New Songs" who returned to Awa Mountain after 13 years.
Yang Zhengren has returned to his hometown for the third time, and his mood is very emotional, he said: "I am the third time to Ban Zhe, once in 2002, once in 2006, and then 13 years later today." Seeing that Banzer has changed a lot this time. The battle against poverty has been fought beautifully, the people's new houses have been built, roads have been built, the Internet has been connected, radio and television have everything, this is a historic leap, a historic leap, and indeed a new song has been sung. ”
"Villages and villages, drums are beaten and gongs are beaten, and Ah Wa sings new songs..." Every morning, the song of "Wa People Sing New Songs" will sound on time in the loudspeakers of the villages and villages in Ximeng County.
Today's Wa villages have a new look, just as the song sings "Tea gardens are green and lush, terraces turn into golden waves", the Wa people get rid of poverty and live a happy new life. (Text/Zhang Mi Zhang Yihua Photo/Du Xingzuo Quan Into Gang)