Dare to ask where the road is and what is the creative background?

1. This song was written for 1986 TV series The Journey to the West. At first, it was only used as an episode rather than a theme song, which mainly showed the spirit of Tang Priest's mentoring and learning from the West. From 198 1 to 1982, The Journey to the West, a TV series prepared and filmed by CCTV, was starred by Yang Jie, and composers from all walks of life poured in at the stage of seeking investment. Yang Jie, whether famous or not, asked everyone to make a piece of music; 1In the winter of 983, Xu Jingqing, as the tenth candidate, began to compose music for the play. At that time, this song was originally a song full of masculinity and was ready to be used as an episode. One day, Xu Jingqing was sitting on the window of a bus, and he saw the snowflakes swirl, and pedestrians hurried forward. Suddenly a melody popped up in his mind, so he immediately got off the bus and recorded the melody of "a spring, summer, autumn and winter" on the cigarette case with a borrowed pencil. After coming back, he spent about two hours at his desk, completing the whole song from the first sentence "You carry the load, I will lead the horse", and only changed two notes two days later.

2. Because the mainstream of music creation at that time was the need of nationalization, Xu Jingqing specially added three-string accompaniment to the arrangement. After the score was completed, a music editor of the film crew invited Yan Su to write lyrics for the theme song in 1988. After the "reform and opening up" in 1970s, China's music creation ushered in unprecedented prosperity. With the changes of people's social and cultural life, the previous "high, strong, loud and fast" songs gradually withdrew from the stage, and the form of "pop music" was restored, which stimulated the rise of China's own "pop songs". Around the 1980s, although some films were lyric songs, there were also episodes with pop music style, which became the pattern and mode followed by China's film and television music creation.

3. 198 1 At the end of the year, in view of the fact that the ratings of Japanese TV dramas broadcast far exceeded other dramas, The Journey to the West, a TV series purchased from Japan, received hundreds of letters of protest, and the central leading comrades decided to try to shoot their own representative works and rewrite the script. At that time, Yang Jie, who was engaged in stage broadcasting, always wanted to direct a TV series, prepare funds and the actors to launch a "Laoshan Taoist" themselves, so the deputy director of CCTV asked Yang Jie to organize a team.