Original singer Wang Yinxuan, lyrics Ruan Ruoshan, composer Li Lin, finalized in June 1957 time.
The predecessor of "Yimeng Mountain Ditty", "Against the Yellow Sand Meeting", was born in the village of Baishiya, Xuezhuang Town, Feixian County, Linyi, at the foot of the third peak of the Mengshan Mountain, the Wanghai Tower. The song was first sung by Wang Yixuan, a soprano singer of the Cultural Troupe of the Political Department of the Shandong Military Region, and caused a sensation in Shandong.
1940 was the hard years of the anti-Japanese war; the Yimeng anti-Japanese base was established not long ago, the Japanese invaders often 'swept', and the Kuomintang's Linyi commissioner, Zhang Riyuan, led by the intransigent faction, also destroyed the anti-Japanese base from time to time. They utilized the local reactionary force, the Huangsha Society, to confront our anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians. In order to remove the obstacles to the anti-Japanese resistance, our Feidong Work Committee and the administrative office did a lot of hard and meticulous political education to the members of the Huangsha Association, but due to the tight control of the reactionaries, none of them were effective. In the end, our army had to decide to use force to solve.
In early June 1940, according to orders from the higher-ups, the first branch school of the Anti-University took part in the anti-obstinacy battle in the area of Yizhuang Nanshan in the Linyi area of Shandong. Li Lin and Ruan Ruoshan, the head of the school's literary troupe, were ordered by Yuan Chenglong, the director of the troupe, to write a song called "Against the Huangsha Meeting" (the predecessor of the "Yimeng Mountain Minor Ditty") with the help of the local flower-drum tunes in Baishiyu Village in Feixian County. This song was praised by the leaders and the general public for its outstanding role in disintegrating the enemy, educating the masses and inspiring the fighting spirit of our army during the political offensive phase of the anti-obstinacy campaign.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the revolutionary literary fighters from the Bohai Sea area renewed the words and finalized the score for the "Yimeng Mountain Ditty" to make it final. Bohai People's Literary Troupe and Bohai Military and Political Literary Troupe as the representative of the Bohai Revolutionary Literary and Artistic Fighters, in-depth masses, including folk songs, folk opera and folk instrumental music, including Bohai folk music, carried out a wide range of collection, which includes the predecessor of the Yimeng Mountain ditty, including the many folk ditties. 1950 May, after the Bohai District was withdrawn, the original Bohai Military and Political Literary Troupe, Li Guangzong, Li Ruiyun, Wang Yinquan, Wang Yinxuan, and others, were transferred to the Shandong Military Region Literary Troupe. They continued to work with folk music in their new positions and made important contributions to the stereotyping and popularization of "Yimeng Mountain Ditty".
In the fall of 1953, the ? Shandong Military Region Cultural Troupe was to tour around Qingdao and Yantai. In the preparation of the performance repertoire, the then deputy director of the troupe, Li Guangzong, the band director Li Ruiyun, the head of the research group Wang Yinquan, three people discussed, to the soprano Wang Yinxuan, who had been famous for her folk songs in the Bohai Military Civilian Troupe, to increase the number of songs with a strong folk song flavor. They sifted through the folk songs they had already collected and finally selected a Shandong folk song. It was considered to have a beautiful tune and a bright rhythm, except that the lyrics were not complete enough, with only two stanzas, giving the impression of having a beginning but no end. So by Li Ruiyun, Li Guangzong, Wang Yinquan three people to re-mark, in the existing two paragraphs of the lyrics on the basis of the following two paragraphs of the lyrics:
Sorghum (that) red to (ai) soybean flower fragrance,
Ten thousand quintals of (that) grain (ai) stacked full warehouse.
The leadership of the ****production party is good,
The people of Mount Yimeng are overjoyed.
The people of Mount Yimeng are overjoyed.
Since then, the four sections of the lyrics have been integrated into one, which is not only complete and proper, but also full of poetic feelings. Wang Yinxuan sings with a sweet, friendly voice. not only has a sweet, friendly and natural voice, but is also very rich in local flavor. In particular, according to the Shandong people's characteristic of speaking in small ruts, she changed "low grass" to "grass" in the fourth line of the lyrics, and emphasized it with the singing style of "playing the child", which is common in Shandong folk songs, which vividly emphasized the importance of the song.
Shandong's "Shandong flavor" has been vividly emphasized in the song, making it very enjoyable to listen to.
Shandong People's Publishing House published in June 1957, "Shandong folk songs collection", including Li Guangzong, Li Ruiyun, Wang Yinquan three people collected and created and adapted the song [1]? Yimeng Mountain Ditty. At this point, after the revolutionary literary workers from the Bohai region **** with the efforts, "Yimeng Mountain Ditty" was finalized.
In 1964, when a folk song performance was held in East China, Wei Youqin sang "Yimeng Mountain Ditty" with her sweet voice, which was praised by other central government officials and later recorded, once again causing a sensation in the country. With the passage of time, this "Shandong folk song" has become famous at home and abroad. In order to commemorate the birth of Yimeng Mountain ditty, the local government built a memorial pavilion in front of the village, set up a monument, a natural boulder in front of the pavilion is engraved with a line inscribed by Ms. Ruan Ruoshan, one of the original authors of the ditty, in her own handwriting on August 17th, 1999 - "Deeply misses the good place of Yimeng Mountain," sending a deep feeling of the author's love for the White House and the Yimeng Mountain. The author's deep love for Baishiyu and Yimeng Mountain. White Stone House is a small mountain village with beautiful scenery. Surrounded by mountains on the west, north and south, forming a "dustpan"-shaped depression, the village is situated on the northern slope, with one or twenty families in each natural village. The village is situated on the north slope of the mountain, each natural village has one or twenty families. The village is situated according to the mountains and the situation, with green trees and rocks on all sides, small bridges and flowing water in front of the village, and the mountain road is curved, and the west side is the natural barrier of more than 1,000 meters of elevation, "Wang Hai Lou", which is extremely secluded and quiet. In this secluded and quiet environment, the young members of the Anti-University Literary Troupe composed the world-renowned song "Yimeng Mountain Ditty"; with the help of this seclusion and quietness, the underground printing office of the Daily Populace constantly disseminated the Party's instructions and the news of the war to the outside world. Later, according to the continuous development of the situation, people modified, enriched and improved the lyrics one after another, gradually leaving out the words and phrases of opposing the Huangsha Association, and replacing them with those of anti-Japanese salvation and reactionary surrender, and injecting it with a stronger spirit of the times. After the founding of the PRC, in the long process of circulation, through the continuous processing and modification of the masses, the first two sections of the original lyrics were retained, and the third section became the new lyrics, which became today's folk song celebrating the scenery of Yimeng mountainous area - "Yimeng Mountain Ditty". Over the years, "Yimeng Mountain Ditty" has become a powerful driving force for the people of the old region to develop their economy and forge ahead, inspiring more than 900,000 people in Feixian to create new splendor.