"Eighteen Bends of the Mountain Road" is a song sung by Li Qiong, with lyrics by Tong Wensi and Yin Jianping, and music by Wang Yuanping, on the music album "Eighteen Bends of the Mountain Road".
In 2000, the song won the Outstanding Song Award at the 7th Spiritual Civilization Construction Five-Year Project Award;
Yo Dashan's children and grandchildren, yo; love the sun;
The sun that loves, yo; the people in the mountains, yo;
Eighteen bends in the mountain road here; Nine consecutive rings in the waterway here;
Rows and rows of songs in the mountain road here; String and string of songs here;
The mountain songs here are in rows; Strings of songs here;
Eighteen bends in the mountain road here; Nine consecutive rings in the waterway here.
Eighteen bends; bends out of the Tujia people's gold and silver cottage;
nine consecutive rings; connects out of the Tujia people's jewelry beach;
Yeah; without these eighteen bends;
there is no beauty like water of the mountain girl;
without this nine consecutive rings;
there is no strong mountains of rowing men;
Eighteen bends ah;nine consecutive rings;
eighteen bends; Nine consecutive rings;
The bends and the rings; the rings and the bends;
All around the water and the mountains of the Tujia people; eighteen bends of the mountain paths here;
nine consecutive rings of the water paths here; rows and rows of the mountain songs here;
stringing and stringing of the mountain songs here; rowing and stringing;
stringing the bitterness and the sweetness of the Tujia people; stringing and stringing;
stringing the sorrows and the joy of the Tujia people; yay;
Strong mountain rowing men.
Without these rows and rows, there would be no simple expression of love;
Without these strings and strings, there would be no lingering expression of love;
Rows and rows; strings and strings;
Rows and rows; strings and strings;
Rows and rows and strings;
Rows and strings; strings and rows and strings;
All connected to the Tujia people's dreams and hopes;
Expanded:
"Eighteen Bends of the Mountain Road", Li Qiong, through the high-pitched, bright, and refreshing timbre and singing style, has conquered the listener's ears. Although the song's melody is catchy, Li Qiong's version of the rendition basically relies on shouting, making it difficult to get a sense of her vocal fundamentals and singing skills. As a soprano song, the song has also become a repertoire for some singers to fully demonstrate their vocal condition and range;
The song was initially called "Children of the Sun", but Yan Su later renamed it "Eighteen Bends of the Mountain Road". The song's lyrics were taken from the poem "Songs and Roads of the Tujia", written by lyricist Tong Wensi in his hometown of Changyang.
In the summer of 1990, Tong Wenshi went to West Hubei to pick up winds, where he enjoyed Tujia folklore performances such as the Pendulum Hand Dance, the Bashan Dance, and the Crying Marriage Song. At that time, when the car was crawling on the mountain road, he was attracted by the scenery of the Qingjiang River and the distant mountains surrounded by clouds, so he created the poem "Songs and Roads of the Tujia". The lyrics of the song are based on that poem, which has been polished for three years