The original singer of the song "Night on the Grassland" is Meng Guibin, Zhu Chongmao.
Lyrics: The beautiful night is so quiet, the prairie only left the sound of my zither, want to write a letter to the faraway girl, but unfortunately there is no letter carrier to pass on the love, wait until the thousand miles of snow melt, wait until the prairie to send the spring breeze, the Kokodara changed its appearance, the girl will come to accompany the sound of my zither. The girl will come to accompany the sound of my lyre, the girl will come to accompany the sound of my lyre.
"Night on the Grassland" was born in 1959 as an interlude in the film documentary "Green Wilderness" by the Bayi Film Studio. The song is known as the "Oriental Serenade" and has been designated by UNESCO as a world-famous serenade and a classic Chinese folk song, which has been sung for more than 40 years since 1959.
Introduction of the Singer
Meng Guibin, born in 1926, was a tenor singer. Meng Guibin was born in 1926, a tenor singer, a native of Shen County, Zhili (present-day Hebei Province), who joined the Eighth Route Army in 1940 and the Chinese ****anese Communist Party in 1942. He was an actor in the Combat Drama Club of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and deputy head of the music unit of the Combat Drama Club of the Northwest Military Region. After the founding of the PRC, he was the captain of the opera team of the Southwest Military Region Cultural Troupe, and graduated from the voice training course of the Central Conservatory of Music in 1958. Afterwards, he served as the head of the soloist group of the Song and Dance Troupe of the General Political Department, the deputy minister of the Culture Department of the National Defense Commission and the head of the Cultural Troupe.
Zhu Chongmao (pronounced: mào) is a lyric tenor singer. A native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. He sang "Night on the Grassland", "Golden Bottle on the Hill" and other lyrical songs that have been popular for generations and are still widely sung by people.