Huang Hong, the original singer of Midu folk song.
Huang Hong, a famous Yunnan folk singer, formerly known as Huang Qiongzhi, was born in Kunming into a family that loves folk singing and dancing. She was influenced by Yunnan lanterns, folk songs, anti-Japanese songs, and Yunnan opera music since childhood.
Huang Hong has always been a soloist in the Yunnan Provincial Song and Dance Troupe. In 1953, she participated in the Yunnan and National Folk Music and Dance Performances. The Yunnan folk songs she compiled, composed, arranged, and sang became popular among the masses. Widely circulated, such as "Little River Flowing Water", "Fangma Folk Song", "I Hope When the Sophora Flowers Will Bloom", "Guess Tune", "Gushma Tune", "Embroidered Purse", "Midu Folk Song", etc. These songs Some of them were selected into the vocal music teaching materials of music schools, and some were adapted into instrumental music.
Introduction to Midu Folk Song:
Midu is located in the southeast of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in western Yunnan. Midu County used to be a place where vagrants from all provinces lived together. The horse caravans traveling from south to north not only brought the prosperity of business here, but also brought here the singing of homesickness in the dead of night, so they used singing to release the feelings of the horsemen. The love of hometown and the use of singing and dancing to dispel the loneliness of wandering in a foreign land deeply shocked people's hearts and aroused the cries of the locals who often experienced the heartache of separation and death.
The Midu folk song is from that time on, people here gradually developed the habit of expressing their joy, anger, sorrow and joy in singing. Midu folk songs are passed down from word to mouth. It is like a long poem that records the changes of the times in Midu, expresses the inner emotions of people in various eras, and talks about the sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, joy, anger, sorrow, joy, love and hate of people in various periods.