Ever since I met Dolma, a famous Tibetan "Flower" singer from Yongjing County, Linxia Prefecture, at the first "Baiyi Cup" Flower Art Festival in Western China held in Linxia in 2013, I have been following her.
Dolma has a good voice. In that "Flower" Grand Prix, she sang a Hezhou Daling "Go up to the mountain and look at the Pingchuan", this "Flower" melody is ups and downs, the range is very wide, requiring singers to have excellent vocal conditions, especially to be able to sing very high pitches. Because of this, some "flower" singers are intimidated by the Great Order of Hezhou, and it is difficult to sing it well. But Dolma sang this Hezhou Order very easily, those extremely difficult high notes, for her seemed to be at ease, and when singing these high notes, she also deliberately added some gorgeous decorative notes, had to make people admire her voice and "flower" singing skills, people who heard this "flower" were sincerely praised: "This song should only be in heaven!" ”
Dolma, Chinese name Niu Xiuqing, was born in April 1974 to a Tibetan family in Jiading Village, Jiading Town, Huzhu County, Qinghai Province. Since she was a child, she has loved "Flowers" and the Tibetan folk song "Rai". At the age of twenty, Dolma married a Han boy surnamed Qi from Huangliu Village, Hongquan Town, Yongjing County, Gansu Province. In 2006, because of her artistic talent for singing, the Yongjing County Yellow River Three Gorges Art Troupe was established soon after the establishment, she was recruited to become a "flower" singer, and since then, Dolma has begun her "flower" singing career.
After entering the Three Gorges Art Troupe, Dolma came into contact with many high-level "flower" singers, including Ma Jun, Zhang Cunxiu, Sonam Sun Bin and Ma Quan from Qinghai; Kou Hong and Ma Cheng from Xinjiang; Tang Xiang from Ningxia; He Qingxiang, Ma Yuzhi and Shi Guanglin from Gansu. She humbly asked these excellent "flower" singers for advice and learned their singing skills. At the same time, she also bought a lot of discs recorded by excellent "Flower" singers from the market and took time to learn to sing "Flowers". Due to the good voice conditions and his own diligent efforts, Dolma soon mastered many of the singing skills of the "Flower" order and improved his "Flower" singing level. The "Flower" songs she is best at singing include Hezhou Daling, Mutual Aid Ling, Wutun Ling, Ah Wu Ling, GaMa Er Ling, Liu Liu San Ling, etc.
During the years of working in the art troupe, Dolma traveled to Qinghai, Xinjiang, and Ningxia, and her loud and sweet "Flowers" song left a deep impression on audiences all over the northwest. In addition, she has participated in various "flower" competitions many times and won awards.
In 2006, Dolma won the first prize of the "Changle Cup" Flower Grand Prix in Luojiadong, Yongjing County. In 2011, the Gansu Provincial Audio-Visual Publishing House organized the implementation of the "Eleventh Five-Year" national key audio-visual publications, the State Publishing Fund funded project "China Flowers • Flowers Are Red" series of audio-visual products DVD, recorded 15 "Flowers" sung by Yongjing County "Flowers" singers, including 3 "Flowers" sung by Dolma alone: Gansan Ling "Wei Ren Bei Wei A Go out", Ah Wu Ling "Three Thoughts Connected To the Heart of the Flesh", Hua Er Ah Ge Ling "Looking at a Pair of Eyes", and she also sang with "Hua Er" Singer Kong Weifang jointly sang three "Flowers": Three Flashes Order "Flowers Should Be Sent Down by courtesans", "Two Days of Siegers on Prince Mountain", and "Eighteen Mules Walk Away from Jingyang".
In October 2012, at the 3rd China National Vocal Music Competition held in Lanzhou, she sang "Flowers" with mutual aid: "White clouds come up to tie knots, one flower is like cotton, put on a ladder and plucked; Ga Ago is like white cotton, spun into a thread, woven into a cloth, sewing a fleshy sweat coat (dialect: close to the gown), wearing it, ga heart heater can not do." "Won the third prize of the Dunhuang Award."
In September 2014, at the 12th Western China Folk Song (Flower) Competition held in Yinchuan, Ningxia, Dolma sang "Flowers" with Wu Tunling: "The moon hangs on the curtains, the moonlight is laid on the kang, the Mandarin duck squats on the pillow, and the golden phoenix is given" won the gold award.
In October 2014, Dolma won the second prize at the "Yunfa Cup" Flower Grand Prix of the 2nd Flower Art Festival "Yunfa Cup" held in Songmingyan, Linxia Prefecture.
In September 2016, she participated in the Folk Song Contest of the 4th China Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo.
In September 2019, Dolma won the Silver Award in the 2019 International Camping Conference and Western Flower (Folk Song) Singer Invitational Competition held in Songmingyan, Linxia Prefecture.
Dolma also actively participated in the Spring Festival Gala held in Yongjing County, and accompanied the Yellow River Three Gorges Art Troupe to go deep into linxia prefecture factories and mining enterprises and various villages to carry out literary and artistic performances, performing more than 200 performances, which were warmly welcomed by the broad masses of the people and became a "flower" singer loved by the people. (Tao Ke)
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