Picking Tea Dance Song, Zhejiang folk song. [Composed by Zhou Dafeng] It was originally the theme song and dance song of the modern opera "Before the Rain" of Yueju Opera. The whole piece is in the style of dance music with the tone of Yueju Opera as the material. (The piece adopts the characteristics of Zhejiang folk tunes, with a beautiful and smooth melody, in which amusing phrases, such as a question and an answer, seem like young people playing with each other, like the praise of the elderly for a good harvest.) Song and Dance Song. Lyrics and music by Zhou Dafeng, composed in 1958. It was originally the theme song and dance score for the Yueju Opera "Before the Rain", and was later adapted into a dance skit called "Tea Picking Dance" based on the song. Tea Picking" was originally a Chinese folk song and dance genre, popular in the southern tea-producing areas, used to express the joy of tea planting and tea picking. This tea-picking dance maintains the basic style of folk tea-picking songs and dances, and adopts the national five-tone levitation mode, with alternating modal material, and the tune is cheerful and jumping, which reproduces the youthful and glowing appearance of the tea-picking girl. The "Tea Picking Dance" was extremely popular in the 1950s and had a large social impact.
In 1987, "Tea Picking Dance" was preserved by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as an excellent national song and dance of the Asia-Pacific
region and recommended as a teaching material for the music of the region
. This is the highest honor China's tea songs and dances have received to date
Playing My Beloved Tupa:
"Playing My Beloved Tupa" was composed in 1956 as an interlude to the feature film "Railway Guerrillas". The feature film reflects the combat life of the railroad guerrillas who were active in the area of Weishan Lake in Shandong Province during the Anti-Japanese War. The composer used the typical tones of Shandong folk songs to create this song with a strong local color, showing the strong revolutionary will and optimism of the guerrillas in a difficult environment. With the screening of the film, the song won the hearts of the masses and has been sung throughout the country for decades without fail.
"Playing My Beloved Tupa" expresses the character and sentiment of heroism and optimism, and is composed in the form of a folk song. This song is full of heroism and romance is widely sung, the song from the beginning to the end of the spirit of revolutionary optimism, has a strong infectious force.
From the lyrical slow movement of "the sun is about to set in the west" to the resounding fast movement of "climbing on the fast train", it really makes people sigh "what is the meaning of the winding finger soft, turned into a hundred refined steel! "The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.