Lyrics of Dragon Boat Song

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.















































All the songs are in the same vein.

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:

After the 9th, dragon lantern performances were held in townships and cities, mixing lions, elephants, forests and fish to drive away epidemics. The Qing Tongzhi Lichuan County Chronicle records: "On the last nine nights, the cable room of dragon lanterns and lion lanterns fought against epidemics, and lamps and flowers exploded in competition until the Lantern Festival. "

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.