"Spring Tour"
Lyrics: Li Shutong
Composer: Li Shutong
Sung by Li Guyi
The spring wind blows the face thinner than a veil, and the spring people's attire is lighter than a painting.
The spring tourists walk in the painting, ten thousand flowers fly under the spring people.
The pear blossom is yellow, the willow blossom is yellow, and the mustard blossom is fragrant.
The warbler cries and the stranger returns, and the bells outside the flowers send off the setting sun.
"Spring Journey" is a three-part choral piece composed by Li Shutong, one of the earliest in modern China.
Expanded information:
In May 1913, Li Shutong, who was a teacher at the First Division of Zhejiang Province, again in the name of the The magazine Baiyang was published in the name of the Zhejiang Teacher Alumni Association. This was a comprehensive publication, with music playing a large part. The magazine republished a preface he had written for the Little Magazine of Music.
Li Shutong published a three-voice choral piece, Spring Journey, which was the first choral work written in modern Chinese music using Western compositional methods, and was recognized as a classic piece of 20th century Chinese music in 1993.