Song: Dragon Boat Song
Sung by: Song Zuying
Lyrics: Zhang Dashan
Composed by: Wang Yang
New Year's Day in the first month of the lunar calendar is a new year's eenie-meenie, and I'm going to pay tribute to the New Year's Day
New Year's Day in the first month of the lunar calendar is a new year's eenie-meenie, and I'm going to pay tribute to the New Year's Day
Golden and silver, the magpie's cry is to take the pigeon to the pigeon
Black: I'll push you across the river. The world's best folk song "Dragon Boat Song" is organized and adapted from the Lichuan lantern song "Planting Melon Song". The Lichuan Lantern Song is a folk singing form of the Lichuan Tujia ethnic group, which uses colorful dragon boats as props during festivals. It originated in the early Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 300 years. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Lantern Song became more and more popular in Lichuan, and there are "eight lamps before", "eight lamps after" and "miscellaneous lamps". The melodious songs were sung by Bo Yang, Mudao and Wang Win in Enshi area of Southwest Hubei. Lichuan is known as the hometown of Longboat Tunes. Background of Creation The Tujia region has a very long history of playing with lanterns. The Tongzhi edition of Zeng Shixiu Funan Zhi records:
All the songs are in the same vein.
It can be seen that the early Tujia region of the lamp play is actually a Tujia region of exorcism. Sorcerers holding dragon and lion lanterns set off firecrackers and presided over legitimate activities along the way, battling ghosts and driving away epidemics.
The Tujia people, who love songs and dances, like to sing and dance. The custom of the Tujia to play with lanterns has not changed after the reformation. In the first month, there are many kinds of lanterns, including dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, colorful dragon boats, clamshell lanterns, and earthen dragon lamps. Lantern songs were strongly promoted.
According to the Tongzhi edition of the Xianfeng County Chronicle: "After the ninth, there were dragon lantern performances in towns and cities, as well as paper lion performances, paper dragon boats, cars, and other performances, dancing and singing by the city gates. "At present, Lichuan still has nearly a hundred traditional light songs," the "Dragon Boat Tunes" is Lichuan light song "planting melon song" adaptation.