Arirang, translated into Chinese is "my husband". Arirang is a love story passed down from the Goryeo Dynasty, which is roughly equivalent to our Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. The general plot is about a loving couple living a poor life. The husband wants his wife to live a good life, so he wants to go out to work and earn money, but the wife refuses. She says that she will be satisfied as long as the two of them stay together, but the husband doesn’t think so. , and left quietly one night. The wife was very beautiful and famous in every village. After her husband left, the gangsters in the village came to harass her and asked her to remarry. She refused, but the gangsters always came to harass her. A year later, the husband came back after making money. The couple was happy when the gangsters came again, and gossip about his wife and the gangsters spread in the village. The husband became suspicious and thought his wife was unfaithful, so he wanted to leave again. No matter how the wife explained, she couldn't stop her, so the husband left. The wife chased after her, and when she couldn't catch up, she sang. The content of the song is probably about how you care about your husband, miss you, feel wronged, and so on. The part the wife sang is "My Husband", which is Arirang. Later, the story and song of Arirang spread and became a representative classic song of the Korean nation. No matter in which corner of the world, as long as there are Koreans, there will be Arirang. When you sing Arirang, you will know that you are a Korean. During the Japanese rule, the Koreans launched an uprising under the name Arirang. The Japanese found out and beheaded anyone who sang Arirang. But after killing one ten people to sing, killing ten to sing one hundred people, and killing one hundred one thousand people to sing again, the more they sang, the more the Japanese had to give up.
Arirang has been circulated in many versions so far. North Korea’s large-scale song and dance performance can also be considered as one version. It tells the history of the suffering of the Korean nation and today’s construction achievements as well as the Korean people’s struggle under Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong. Happy life under the leadership of Japan.
The lyrics of "Arirang" vary slightly depending on the region in Korea and North Korea. But in Korean, Arirang is not a person's name, but a place name. Some people think it is the name of a mountain, but it is impossible to confirm where it is. Arirang songs from various places are not the same, but they fully reveal the perseverance and perseverance of ancient women.
The origin of Arirang's song is said to be derived from the folk song composed by Ying, the wife of the founder of Silla, also known as Arirang. Or it can be said that it is an Arirang song that was imitated by the Korean flute player. Among them, the more reliable one is the legend of Mercy Ridge.
Mercy Ridge does not exist on today’s map of the Korean Peninsula. After China established four groups of counties on the peninsula in the early Han Dynasty, the ethnic groups in the northern part of the mainland began a large-scale migration across the Yangtze River, perhaps out of oppression. These immigrants who left their homeland wandered and wailed in the Ciling Mountains of Beidong Pass. The elderly, weak, women and children often fell ill and died on the way. During this displacement, the Arirang song spread, expressing the inner pain of the immigrants. After crossing the mountains and ridges, the Arirang song was spread to the central part of the Korean Peninsula.
Historians believe that these foreign peoples who were regarded as Dongyi by the Han gods were the ancient Korean people. Arirang is the onomatopoeia of the ancient Korean saying Lelang.