The original singers were Ximurong and Dedema.
The lyricist of "Father's Grassland Mother's River" is the Taiwanese poet Xi Murong, while the idea of the song came from the famous Inner Mongolian singer De De Ma. She not only tells us a story about the grassland, but also witnesses the deep friendship between these two outstanding women. At the 2001 Spring Festival Gala of Beijing TV and Inner Mongolia TV, Ximurong and De Dema*** performed the song "Father's Grassland, Mother's River" together. Since then, the song has been very popular and widely sung.
Xi Murong, (1943.10.15-) female, Mongolian, famous poet, essayist and painter. Xi Murong's full name is Mulun Xilianbo, meaning big river, "Murong" is the harmonic translation of "Mulun". 1943 lunar October 15 was born in Chongqing suburb of Jingangpo, her ancestral home in Inner Mongolia Chahar League Ming'an Banner, 1949 moved to Hong Kong, spent her childhood in Hong Kong, and later drifted with her family to the city of Hong Kong, where she lived. He spent his early childhood in Hong Kong and later drifted to Taiwan with his family. He wrote poems in his diary at the age of 13. In 1956, he was enrolled in the Art Department of Taipei Normal School, and in 1964, he went to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium, for further study and was enrolled in the Advanced Class of Oil Painting; he graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium, with the first place in 1966. In 1970, he took Mullen as a pseudonym, and published his works in the United Supplementary Magazine. In July, he returned to Taiwan and taught at the Art Department of Hsinchu Teachers College. In the following years, he was invited to participate in many provincial and international art exhibitions. In 1981, Taiwan's Dadi Publishing House published Ximurong's first book of poems, "Seven Miles of Fragrance," as well as the famous collection of essays, "Qian Qian Fang Grass," and in September 1989, she traveled to the hometowns of her father and her late mother, where she had her first glimpse of the Mongolian Plateau.
DeDeMa, a Chinese Mongolian mezzo-soprano, was born in 1947 in Eqina Banner, Inner Mongolia. 1978, DeDeMa received great attention in the singing world with her song "Beautiful Grassland, My Home". 1982, DeDeMa was transferred to the Central Minority Dance Troupe as a soloist. 1986, she won the American voice award in the "National Listeners' Favorite Singing Actor" competition. "In 1986, she won the prize of "Haojiang Cup" for American voice singing, and in 1988, she held a solo concert in Beijing. 1989, she won the first place in the competition of "Top Ten Female Singers of China", and in 1991, she went to Mongolia with the Minority Art Troupe. In 1991, she went to Mongolia with the National Minority Art Troupe, and won the highest prize of Mongolia's national culture and art.