When the dawn breaks through the night, the people living in this land wake up from their slumber, and a new day begins with singing.
After the founding of New China, the twelve ethnic groups living in Guangxi ushered in a different new life. Art workers go deep into life, take root in the people, they are full of passion for the people to create, play songs for the times, and bring folk songs from the rural fields to the temple of art.
This "U" shaped Grand Canyon is known as the first bay of the RedWater River. The Hongshui River crosses Guangxi and is the mother river of Guangxi.
"Hongshui River Has Thirty-Three Bays" was popular in the 1950s and was based on the Guangxi Fengshan folk song "The Red Army Went North to Jiangxi" as the keynote.
After the founding of New China, a large number of cultural workers came to the masses of the people to record, excavate, and sort out folk songs. He has created many classic songs with a sense of the times.
"Stars in the Sky with the Moon" is a folk song circulated in the Zhuang region of southwest Guangxi, this folk song has a simple language and deep feelings.
"Chairman Mao Came to My Guangxi" sang the voice of the people of Guangxi. The tune of the song "Zhuangjin Dedicated to Chairman Mao" is based on folk songs from Donglan County, Guangxi, expressing the Zhuang people's love for the leader and the party.
In Yizhou, Guangxi, the legend of Liu Sanjie, a song immortal, has been circulating since ancient times.
"Liu Sanjie" is a song fairy in Guangxi folklore who can sing and make songs, she exports into songs, and she is very smart. For thousands of years, Liu Sanjie has been the embodiment of the wisdom and ideals of the working people, and the image of "Liu Sanjie" has always been deeply loved by the people.
After the founding of New China, Guangxi attached great importance to the protection and inheritance of national culture, and the cultural department organized art workers to go down to the grass-roots level to collect and sort out the folk songs scattered in the countryside, process them artistically, and give folk songs a new life. "Liu Sanjie" of various artistic genres was born in the context of such an era.
In 1958, after the establishment of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, art workers devoted themselves to creation with great enthusiasm, composing the labor enthusiasm of the people of all ethnic groups into songs, praising the era of great enthusiasm. A number of outstanding works reflecting the changes in economic construction and people's lives came into being, and "Lamu Song", "Happy To Send Public Grain to Break the Waves", "Rocking the Net Bed Under the Betel Nut Tree", and "Washing ShellFish Song" are among the representatives.
"WashBeg Song" is a Jing folk song, which depicts the beautiful picture of the Jing girl's softness and rigidity when she works.
In Nandan, more than 3,600 children from poor families like Li Xiaoping have relocated to a brand-new campus, and they grow up happily like spring flowers, bathed in the sun. This beautiful scene is very similar to a song in the 1970s that depicts Guangxi Zhuang teenagers studying in school, "Zhuang family teenagers grow up under the red flag".
"Rushing Back to Ah Li Li" reflects the changes in the lives of ethnic minorities after the reform and opening up, and the creation of the lining words "Ah Li Li" in the song is inspired by the scenes of Yi life such as roasting fire and simmering peanuts.
In 1991, the Fourth Chinese Ethnic Minority Traditional Sports Games were held in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and the song of this session of the Democratic Games, "Love My China", was sung in Guangxi.
"Eight Gui Songs" is a fine drama in Guangxi with the standard of stage art in the new century. Use the people's language to shape the image of the people, and use the people's songs to praise the people's lives. The creative concept of "taking from the people and returning it to the people" has always run through the whole play.
Mountain songs are like spring rivers, running endlessly in the long river of thousands of years of history. The classic songs created on the basis of Guangxi folk songs have become the memory of the times, recording the development process of the republic, and under the nourishment of the party's sunshine and rain, the artistic flowers of Guangxi folk songs are flourishing and blooming beautifully.
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Edited by 丨 Lu Ting
Responsible editor 丨 Qing Lin Qiang