The original singer of "Water Runs Down the Little River" is Huang Hong.
"Water Runs Through the Little River" is a Yunnan folk song composed by Yin Yigong in 1947. The lyrics are simple, natural and imaginative, with sincere and intrinsic feelings, a higher register and wider range, showing the vitality and innocence of a young girl. It is a classic folk song work, which has been sung by singers such as Huang Hong, Zhu Fengbo, Gong Linna and Tan Jing.
"The Little River Runs Through Water" was born on a night when the moon was high and bright at Yunnan University in the spring of 1947. Initially, Yin Yigong took the song name "moon out bright woof woof", and took it to Jiang Ruoshi to see, Jiang Ruoshi hummed it twice and said: this song is too beautiful! It was suggested that the name of the song should be "Little River Runs Through Water". The song was then published under the pen name "Zhao Hua" in the publication "Teaching and Singing" of the "South Wind Chorus" of Yunnan University. From then on, "Water from the Little River" gradually spread.
Huang Hong
Huang Hong is a famous Yunnan folk singer. Formerly known as Huang Qiongzhi, she was born in Kunming to a family that loved folk songs and dances, and was nurtured by Yunnan lanterns, folk songs and ditties, anti-Japanese songs, and Dian Opera music, and was actively involved in the Anti-Japanese War and the Chinese Revolution in her early years. After the founding of New China, Huang Hong was a soloist with the Yunnan Provincial Song and Dance Troupe, and was politically persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. 1953 she participated in the Yunnan and National Folk Music and Dance Festival, which was a hit after the show.
The Yunnan folk songs that she organized, composed, arranged and sang were widely circulated among the public, such as "The River Runs Through It", "Horse-herding Song", "When Will the Sophora Blossoms Bloom? "Some of these songs have been selected for inclusion in the vocal music teaching materials of music colleges and universities, and some have been adapted as Some of these songs have been selected for inclusion in the vocal music textbooks of music colleges, while others have been adapted into instrumental pieces. She has visited Poland, Romania, East Germany, North Korea, Japan, Indonesia, the Soviet Union and Burma with Chinese delegations.