Jiang Dawei - Dare to Ask Where the Road Leads
You carry the burden, I lead the horse, ushering in the sunrise and sending off the evening sun.
Treading the bumps into the road, fighting against the hardships and dangers, setting off again, setting off again.
La ...... la ...... some tomato spring, fall, winter and summer. A scene of sweet and sour, bitter and spicy.
Dare to ask where the road is, the road is under the feet. You pick the burden, I hold the horse,
The mountain wading through the water on both shoulders frost flowers. The wind, clouds, thunder and lightning are all powerful,
All the way to the end of the world, to the end of the world, in a heroic song. La ...... la ......
One after another, spring, fall, winter and summer. A scene of sweet and sour.
Dare to ask where the road is, the road is under the feet. Dare to ask where the road is, the road is under the feet.
The song was composed as music for the 1986 version of the TV series Journey to the West; at the end of 1981, the deputy director of CCTV asked Yang Jie, who was then engaged in stage broadcasting, to organize a team and embark on the filming of Journey to the West. Various composers came and went, and Yang Jie asked each of them to write a piece of music, regardless of their fame; around the winter of 1983, Xu Jingqing, as the 10th candidate, started to write the music for the show; the song was intended to be used as an interlude, and was originally a masculine song.
Hsu Jingqing was sitting on a bus one day when he saw snowflakes flying outside the window and pedestrians rushing to get to the bus, when the melody popped into his head, so he immediately got off the bus and used a borrowed pencil to write down the melody "spring, fall, winter, and summer ......" on his cigarette case; when he got back, he sat down at his desk and wrote the melody down. When he got back to his desk, he spent about two hours to complete the song from the first line, "You carry the burden, I lead the horse", and only changed two notes two days later. Because the mainstream of music creation at that time was the need for ethnicity, Xu Jingqing deliberately added a three-string accompaniment to the arrangement.