Kangding love song is a folk song born in Kangding, Sichuan in the 1930s. It was spontaneously created by local people and gradually spread in the1940s. In the mid-1940s, Wu Wenji, a Fujian student studying at Qingmuguan National Music School in Chongqing, collected this song among Kangding people who joined the army and gave it to his teacher Zheng Qian. Wu Zhengqian liked it very much, and asked Jiang Dingxian, a teacher from the composition department, to accompany it.
Jiang Dingxian changed the original name "Happy Mountain" to "Kangding Love Song" after matching the accompaniment. Later, Zheng Qian sang this song for the first time at a school concert. Later, Jiang Dingxian recommended this song to the then popular singer Yu Yiying. In the same year, at a solo concert held in Nanjing, Yu Yiying publicly sang this song. Later, he took this song as his own reserved program, and sang it from Nanjing to the northwest, from home to abroad, so that Kangding Love Song spread all over the world.
Appreciation of Kangding love songs:
Kangding Love Song, one of the "Top Ten Folk Songs" recommended by UNESCO to the world, was sent into space by an American satellite and became a classic melody resounding through the universe. Kangding is located in the west of Sichuan. Kangding, as a material distribution center on the ancient tea-horse road, has a long-standing reputation for love songs. Kangding Love Song is a classic of China folk songs.
The most distinctive word in the lyrics is "Liu Liu"-the breath of youth and vitality. The text is concise and fluent, which expresses Kangding's unique feelings. It should belong to a young and flying heart. Water and soil are connected with human character and blood. On the vast grassland of "the sky is grey, the wild is grey, the wind and grass are low, and the cattle and sheep are low", we have no reason not to open our minds, but to be strong, rough and hot.
There are many singing and playing versions of Kangding Love Song, and this one is very suitable for playing Hulusi. There are tenors 5 and 6 in many places in the song, but they are not beyond the range of Hulusi. Because of the cheerful style, there is a strong sense of rhythm jump. The timbre of cucurbit silk is mixed with delicate emotional factors, like green silk scarves fluttering in the wind in the exciting sky, which adds a lot of color to the expressive force of music.
Another reason why "Love Song of Kangding" is enduring is the excavation of people's emotional beliefs and the good capture of this inspiration. No matter how old you are and where you are, when the Love Song of Kangding rings, your inner compass is locked in the wandering city of Kangding, emitting the fragrance of youth.