The original singer of Embroidered Lotus Bag is Fan Xiudong.
"Embroidered Lotus Bag" is a folk song from northern Jin, sung by Fan Xiudong.
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In an exquisite lotus bag, these folk ingenious women, with their highest enthusiasm and association, turn a picture of a beautiful life into embroidery images, both complicated and simple, and the beautiful patterns implicitly convey their deepest feelings.
Many women often make their purses with great care while chanting in a low voice, and over time, the "Embroidered Purse" composed by the working women themselves became an important subject in the traditional folk songs of the Chinese nation, which are found almost everywhere in China.
Historical Background
The folk song "Embroidered Lotus Bag" has a long history of circulation. According to modern opera and song theorist Fu Shihua (1907-1970), "Embroidered Lotus Bags" was already very popular in the middle of the Qing Dynasty.
The "Embroidered Lotus Bags" in the collection of popular tunes "White Snow Remaining Tones" (compiled by Hua Guangsheng) published in the eighth year of the Qing dynasty's Daoguang period (1828), with *** twelve stanzas, is the earliest version of lyrics found in written records." The artistic wonder of the embroidered lotus bag is a linguistic and historical symbol of the Chinese nation, but also a feature and essence of regional culture.
A large number of "Embroidered Lotus Bags" ditties can be found in the folk song selections of various provinces in China. Such as by Zhu Fengbo sang into the classic Shanxi folk song "embroidered purse" and Yunnan folk song "embroidered purse" due to the geographical environment, customs, humanities have a big difference, as well as the author's life encounters, feelings and interests are different, the singer's artistic treatment is also high and low difference.
As a result, there are a lot of different lyrics, different melodies, different speeds, different modes of tuning, different rhythms and different expressions of "Embroidered Lotus Bags", and there are quite a number of "Embroidered Lotus Bags" which are derived from a mother song into a lot of sub-songs of the same kind, forming a variety of variants.
These numerous ditties of the same kind shape different musical images and express different moods, and when sung, they show strong local characteristics and rustic flavor.
Types
The folk song "Embroidered Lotus Bags" can be roughly divided into three types:
The first type is the unmarried girls who secretly embroider lotus bags behind their backs to give them to their intended lovers, showing the yearning and pursuit of free marriage. Some of the words and songs in this category are gentle and inner, delicate and implicit; some are spirited and bold and passionate; some are innocent and lively, joyful and playful. It is as if women of different character are expressing their own feelings.
The second category reflects a young man going to the west (referring to the area of Daqing Mountain in western Inner Mongolia) to do labor, and his wife embroiders a purse for him to express her longing for him. In the old society, due to the exploitation of the landlord class or by the desert year, the peasants in the area of Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia or the provinces in northern China suffered a lot, only to leave their wives, children and children to the mouth of the foreigners to make a living, and some can come back alive, but also outside the death of poverty.
The third category covers a wider range, with some reflecting only love stories but not direct expressions of longing.
In a moving song, the heart and hands of the folk craftswomen are embedded in a long and moving emotion. This ingenious combination of unique folk crafts and singing forms a bright landscape that shines uniquely on the stage.