The Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix is the accompaniment song in the sedan chair of the Yu Opera, because the Yu Opera is very popular, so the Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix is popular in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Anhui, etc. It is one of the top ten famous songs of Chinese national instrumental music, which depicts the sound of the hundred birds in harmony with the song with a lively and joyful tune, and it glorifies the beauty of the nature, and it gives full play to the specialty of the oboe that is good at mimicry. It is popular in a wide range of areas, and there are different versions in Shandong, Anhui, Henan, Hebei and other places. The music evokes people's love of nature and memories of their labor life with its warm and cheerful melody.
The Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix is one of the most comprehensive pieces in the suona repertoire in terms of technique. For the player, this piece should utilize the unique suona blowing techniques such as spitting, gliding, flower tongue, finger flower, trill, swallowing, spitting, padding, beating, wiping, pressing, etc., as well as the difficult techniques such as tongue impulse, gas impulse, rebound, anti-double spitting, continuous popping sound, gas-lip same trill, finger-gas same trill, etc. The player should also utilize the special techniques of suona blowing.
Expanded Information:
The Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix first appeared in the Yu Opera sedan chair, and has gone through a number of processed adaptations since the Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix was brought to the stage.
The original "Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix" in folklore was loosely structured, with no climax, and the rooster crowing, the hen laying eggs, and even a child's cry were all randomly added to the piece when it was improvised.
In the spring of 1953, a team from Heze, Shandong Province, took part in the National Performance of Suona as the suona soloist, and it was warmly welcomed.
When "A Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix" was selected to participate in the Fourth World Youth Festival, Ren Tongxiang, a folk musician, processed the piece with the assistance of professional musicians, compressed the bird's cries to address the flaws of the original piece, deleted the sound of the chickens, and designed a special cyclic air exchange method of the long tone technique of the colorful phrases, expanding the end of the Allegretto section, so that the piece ended in a warm and joyful atmosphere.
The piece won the Silver Medal in the Folk Music Competition at the Fourth World Youth Gala. In the seventies, based on Ren Tongxiang's performance, an introduction was designed to present the mood of a hundred birds singing in unison in order to strengthen the musicality, and the colorful phrases were also expanded, using the rapid double spatula technique to make the piece more complete.