Top Ten Chinese Folk Songs: "The Flowering of Shandandandan", "The Tune of Purple Bamboo", "Gada Meilin", "Half Moon Climbing Up", "Kangding Love Song", "Ao Bao Xianghui", "Tibetan Plateau", "Butterfly Spring", "In That Faraway Place", "Why are the Flowers So Red".
1. "The Flowering of Shandandandan"
"The Flowering of Shandandandan" was written by Li Ruobing, Guan Heyan, Xu Lock, and Feng Fukuan, with music composed by Liu Fenghuang, and the original soloist was Worksop, and was later sung by a number of artists, including Zhu Fengbo, who sang the version in the 1970s, and the song was a part of a large-scale television series called "Ode to Yan'an", which was filmed by the China Central Television (CCTV) in 2003. The song was the theme song for the end credits of the 2003 CCTV drama "Ode to Yan'an".
2. "Purple Bamboo Tune"
The "Purple Bamboo Tune" is a traditional ditty widely sung in the Wu-speaking region (Southern Jiangsu, Shanghai, most of Zhejiang, Southern Anhui, etc.), and its origin can be traced back to the folk songs of the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods. After being sung and modified by successive generations of artists, the "Purple Bamboo Tunes" of different places have added their own local characteristics and differed in the treatment of syllables. However, its lyrics and songs all have a strong Wu style.
3, "Gada Meilin"
"Gada Meilin" is a Mongolian long narrative folk song, the contents of which is sung in the twentieth century around the twenties, in the eastern part of Mongolia, a Mongolian hero Gada Meilin ("Gada" is the youngest of the hero's rank at home, "Meilin" is the youngest of the hero's rank in the royal family). ("Gada" is the youngest in the hero's family, and "Merlin" is the name of a very low official position he held in the royal family), led the people to rise up against the feudal princes and reactionary warlords. The whole poem is very long, and is often sung in four stanzas that were collated and translated and matched by the composer Ambo.
4. Half Moon Climbing Up
"Half Moon Climbing Up" is a folk song composed by Wang Luobin according to the folk tones of the northwestern region. It retains the simplicity of Xinjiang Uygur folk songs, but also shows a high degree of artistic expression, because of its beautiful tune, far-reaching meaning, easy to learn and sing and spread throughout the country.
5. "Kangding Love Song"
"Kangding Love Song" is a representative Han folk song of Kangding area in Sichuan Province, which was arranged by Jiang Dingxian and sung by Yu Yixuan in Nanjing on April 19, 1947. "Kangding Love Song" won the silver medal at the World Youth Gala in Vienna in 1952, and was selected as one of the "World's Ten Most Representative Folk Songs" by the U.S. space agency NASA in the 1970s. "The World's Ten Most Representative Songs".
6, "Ovoo Meeting"
"Ovoo Meeting" is a single song sung by the famous Mongolian singer Qi Feng, lyrics Mara Qinfu, Haimo, composer Tongfu. The song was originally an episode of the movie People on the Grassland, and has since been widely sung and enduring.
7, "Tibetan Plateau"
"Tibetan Plateau" is a soprano song, a lot of people have challenged, but not many people can sing its soprano perfectly, it is the popular singing style and Tibetan folk culture fusion together, giving a novel feeling, it is rich in feelings of singing coupled with soprano skills to make the song widely circulated.
8, "Butterfly Spring Side"
"Butterfly Spring Side" is the interlude of the movie "Five Golden Flowers", written by Ji Kang and composed by Lei Zhenbang. The song depicts the beautiful natural scenery of Dali in the form of a pair of songs and expresses the innocent love between a man and a woman.
9, "in that distant place"
"In that distant place" absorbed the individual modes and phonemes of the "sheep lying in the miss you", and adopted the European seven-tone scale modes rarely seen in Han folk songs, both the timbre of the Kazakh folk songs, and the style of the Qinghai Tibetan folk songs, the beautiful lyrical upper and lower phrases, the simple and concise picaresque lyrics, the natural harmony and lively melody, which is very popular. The melody is natural and harmonious, vivid and fluent, and is loved by singers.
10, "Why are the flowers so red"
"Why are the flowers so red" is an interlude created by famous composer Lei Zhenbang for the old movie "Guests on the Iceberg", which was adapted from a Tajik folk song.