Su Yang was invited to become the first Chinese musician at the Medellín International Poetry Festival whose lyrics will be included in the official poetry collection

Beijing News Express (reporter Yang Chang) On July 14, local time, the 28th Medellín International Poetry Festival will kick off in the Hope Park in Medellín, Colombia. With the support of the Confucius Institute Latin America Center and the Confucius Institute in Medellin, Colombia, national rock musician Su Yang will depart for Colombia on July 11, as the first Chinese musician invited by the Medellín Poetry Festival, he will sing classic songs such as "Xianliang", "South Flow of The River" and "Pearl Roller Blind" at the opening ceremony, bringing the sound of the Yellow Land to the South American continent.

Medellín, Colombia's second largest city, hosts a week-long poetry festival every summer, attracting poets and artists from around the world. The Medellín Poetry Festival has been around for 28 years, and it is both the largest poetry festival in South America and one of the four major poetry festivals in the world.

The theme of this year's poetry festival is "Returning to Local Beliefs and Finding the Source of Poetry and Song". Indigenous poetry has been indispensable since the inception of the Medellín Poetry Festival, and their participation in mythological stories, oral skills and singing customs has given the festival a deeper meaning. Rooted in the cultural soil of the Yellow River Basin, Suyang's music grafts and improves the forms of northwest folk music and music and art such as "Flowers" and "Qin Cavity" with popular music, creating a new musical language, and practicing the pursuit of the source of poetry and song in the creation.

In addition to singing, Su Yang will participate in two poetry recitals, and many of his lyrics will be included in the festival's official poetry collection. Su Yang's lyrics exude an ancient, simple poetry, for example, "Who accompanies him through the long thorns / Can pluck the thorns in his heart / Who keeps singing the mother's song and keeps singing" ("Water Ice Grass"), "You see the flowing water does not turn back, the sunset goes down the mountain / I don't know where they all live, but they can never come back" ("Under the Helan Mountain"), etc., the expression of Fu Bixing in the Book of Poetry is continued in the lyrics that integrate the imagery of folk life.