Ding Zhen, a Tibetan boy in Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, went to buy instant noodles at the mouth of the village, and on the way, the photographer inadvertently took a 10-second picture, but he did not expect to suddenly explode the whole network, so that Ganzi Prefecture suddenly caught fire in China.
In fact, 63 years ago, in 1947, a teacher named Yu Yixuan at the Nanjing National Conservatory of Music (also a teacher of musicians Li Xinchang, Li Shuangjiang, Wu Yanze and others) sang Ganzi Prefecture all over China and even the world with a "Kangding Love Song" (also known as "Running Horse slippery mountain").
The song was selected by NASA as one of the "Ten Most Iconic Songs in the World" and was sent into space in a spaceship.
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Ganzi Prefecture, in Sichuan, is the first ethnic autonomous area in New China, which is a Tibetan area, and Kangding is the seat of its capital, a famous plateau city with a long history.
Spatially, Ganzi Prefecture is 1,919 kilometers away from Nanjing, so why did Yu Yixuan, who met his soul 63 years ago, spread "Kangding Love Songs" to listeners in the mainland?
Yu Yixuan was born on September 6, 1909, from a family of scholars in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province. At the end of the Republic of China, she was able to teach at the National Conservatory of Music, her grandfather Yu Zhaofan was a former Qing Hanlin, and her father Yu Xiangping was the last qing dynasty.
In 1927, Yu Yixuan graduated from the Nanchang First Girls' Normal School, and in 1928, he entered the Shanghai Private Art College to study music in the Department of Music (Music). In 1929, he entered the Shanghai National Conservatory of Music to major in vocal music, and after graduating in 1933, he taught in the Music Department of Nanjing National Central University. In the spring of 1934, he became an assistant professor in the Music Department of The National Central University in Nanjing.
In 1935, he went to Cornell University Graduate School in the United States to major in music and education, and studied under E. Dudley, a baritone singer and conductor of the Italian Bel Canto School. During his study abroad, he has held many solo concerts and radio performances in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Florida and other places, and the repertoire includes Chinese folk songs and anti-Japanese salvation songs, which are quite influential.
After returning to China in 1939, he engaged in vocal teaching and singing activities in Chengdu, Enshi and other places, and taught in the music department of Jinling Women's University in Nanjing until 1941.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, in order to popularize the music activities of the common people, she resigned her teaching position to specialize in singing activities, and her singing voice spread throughout the motherland.
Writing this, it seems that Yu Yixuan and Kang Ding still have no connection, and at this time, a person named Wu Wenji appeared.
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Wu Wenji, a native of Hui'an, Putian, Fujian Province, served as a cultural and music instructor in Ganzi, Sichuan Province, as a student of composition at the Nanjing National Conservatory of Music, after the Japanese war in the Pacific War. During this period, he often strolled through the city of Kangding to observe and understand the people's feelings.
In 1946, a groom hummed a melody of "Yo-Yo Tune" attracted him, and after he sorted it out, in order to more fully and more vividly show the high degree of freedom of marriage and love of the Khampa people, he added "The slippery woman in the world lets you slip in love, and the slippery man in the world lets you slip and ask for yo..." The lyrics of this song were named "The Mountain where the Horse Is Slippery".
In order to sing at the nanjing National Conservatory of Music teacher-student party, Wu Wenji asked his teacher, Mr. Jiang Dingxian, the head of the composition department, to arrange the piano accompaniment score of "Running Horse Slippery Mountain", a Kangding folk song that he had discovered and artistically processed.
At that time, Jiang Dingxian did not have a piano around him, but he enthusiastically used the organ to match the accompaniment, adding icing on the cake to this folk song, and including the collection of folk songs he compiled, and renaming "The Slippery Mountain of Running Horses" to "Kangding Love Song".
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In the spring of 1947, Yu Yixuan went to Nanjing to give a solo concert and invited his old classmate Mr. Jiang Dingxian to accompany him.
When Jiang Dingxian was accompanied by the chorus, he said that he had a very valuable folk song collection and gave it to Yu Yixuan. There are not many songs, a very thin collection of folk songs.
Yu Yixuan turned to the last song, which is "Kangding Love Song", and she doesn't seem to pay much attention to the other songs, but this song has aroused her great interest. Yu Yixuan said that she was in love with this song at first sight.
In April 1947, while singing solo at the Nanjing International Club, the theater suddenly lost power, and Yu Yixuan sang "Running Horses on the Slippery Mountain" in the flickering candlelight.
In July 1948, General Zhang Zhizhong, then director of the Northwest Travels and chairman of Xinjiang Province, invited Yu Yixuan to sing in the northwest. She held two concerts in Lanzhou City, received a warm welcome, sang another concert at Lanzhou University, and held a unique open-air concert in a valley surrounded by mountains on the outskirts of Lanzhou, and the venue was crowded with tens of thousands of listeners, which was a sensation.
With her very successful singing, young men and women who love to sing will occasionally hum the melody of "a slippery cloud on the slippery mountain of the running horse". "Kangding Love Song" has since swept China.
Yu Yixuan has also held solo concerts in Paris, France, and London, England, and the program list of "Kangding Love Songs" is always in the eye, and explains that this song is a Kangding folk song in southwest China.
In the world, "Kangding Love Song" has won the reputation of "The Sound of Nature" and "Song of the Universe"; it has been recommended by UNESCO as one of the ten most influential folk songs in the world, and has been adopted as a teaching material by many countries.
However, because Kangding's fame is too great, it has overshadowed Ganzi Prefecture, so that many people know that there is Kangding but do not know that there is Ganzi Prefecture.
Because of Ding Zhen, Sichuan and Tibet have also "fought" in the hot search on Weibo in the past two days, and many people have always thought that the place where Ding Zhen lives is Tibet.
Ding Zhen posted a photo on Weibo, and he personally wrote "Home in Sichuan" on the paper, with the text: "Chengdu is more than 600 kilometers from our house, and Sichuan is very big."