"One Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix" is a suona song that has been circulating in Shandong, Anhui, Henan and Hebei.
Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix is a famous Han Chinese folk music piece, which is popular in a wide range of regions, with different versions in Shandong, Anhui, Henan, and Hebei. The music evokes people's love for nature and memories of their laboring life with its enthusiastic and cheerful melody.
The music seems to hear the cries of cuckoos, partridges, swallows, mountain chirps, blue finches, paintbrushes, larks, blue waxbills and other birds, as if there were also the crowing of roosters, symbolizing the passing of the night and the rising of the sun in a vivid mood.
Other synopsis of "The Hundred Birds".
In 1953, suona player Ren Tongxiang deleted the simulated and little-changing repetitive passages in the interludes that had nothing to do with the birdsong, resulting in an improvement in the mood and structure of the piece.
In 1974, he developed the huachai section considerably before performing it in Australia.
In 1975, Mr. Chen Jiaqi made a synthesis of several different recordings of Ren Tongxiang's performances, and with his consent, labeled each section according to its different musical mood, "The Tits Crowing at Dawn," "The Earth Returning to Spring," and "The Warblers Singing and the Swallow Dancing," respectively, "Warbler singing and swallow dancing", "playing in the forest", "birds facing the phoenix", "joyful singing and dancing", "Phoenix wings", "and wings in the air" and other eight paragraph subheadings.