Song "Jasmine Flower" ①Name of a folk song, widely celebrated in China and the world, the city song of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Origin and Sources Jasmine Flower is a Jiangsu folk song, which is well known because the Jiangsu version is the earliest and most representative, but the place of origin is quite controversial. The current mainstream view is that "Jasmine Flower" originated in Yangzhou. In the 1990s, the cities of Nanjing and Yancheng in Jiangsu Province scrambled to claim that they were the birthplace of the folk song "Jasmine", and published articles in the media to prove it. on October 16, 2000, two Yangzhou cultural figures published an article in the media entitled "Jasmine" originated from Yangzhou's Qing Qu," and since then no other different voices have been heard. Since then, no other different voices have been heard. These two cultural figures are Zhu Xiangsheng, the executive deputy director of the Yangzhou Qingqu Research Office, and Nie Feng, the deputy director. Among them, Mr. Nie Feng also studied under Wang Wanqing, a modern master of Yangzhou Qingqu performance. Their long-deposited knowledge of Qingqu has convinced them that "Jasmine Flower" originated from Yangzhou Qingqu. Yangzhou Qingqu is also known as Yangzhou Xiaoqu and Yangzhou Xiaojiao. Jasmine Flower" first belonged to Yangzhou's Yangge ditty, and was later processed by generations of Yangzhou Qingqu artists, evolving into Yangzhou Qingqu's song name, Fresh Flower Tune. In a collection of local operas published in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, "Dubbing White Fur", there was a collection of "Fresh Flower Tunes", which had a musical score and lyrics. The lyrics, except for individual words that are different from the current Jasmine Flower, are word for word, which is the earliest and most complete record of Fresh Flower Tunes found so far. This is the earliest and most complete record of the "Flower Tune" found so far. This is enough to prove that "Jasmine Flower" originated from Yangzhou Qing Qu. The two culturists also listed various evidences from other aspects to support the origin of "Jasmine Flower" and Yangzhou. After the article came out, the dissenting voices were immediately gone. Later, many scholars and literati from other places gradually began to publish articles claiming that "Jasmine Flower" came from Yangzhou. This popular Yangzhou ditty spread throughout the country as Yangzhou's influence at the time spread and influenced many other local operas and songs. 150 years ago, Yangzhou, as the economic and cultural center of China and a world-famous metropolis at the time, spawned "Jasmine", which was a household name and everyone could hum it. Decades later, when Puccini composed "Turandot", it was both natural and inevitable that he chose "Jasmine Flower", which represents the flavor of the Orient and is popular in China, as the theme music to set off the Chinese love story. Development and Influence China has a vast area, a long history, and many ethnic groups, so there are many folk songs and ditties that have been widely circulated. They are like the flowers in the garden in March, beautiful and colorful, with thousands of postures and fragrances. Among them, there is one variety that has been cultivated for a long time and is widely loved by the public, which is the familiar folk song "Jasmine Flower". Jasmine Flower" has been popular since ancient times, there are various variations, but one popular in the Jiangnan area of the most widely spread, the most representative. Her melody is gentle, fluctuating and smooth, and her feelings are delicate; by praising jasmine flowers, she implicitly expresses the simple and soft feelings between men and women. As early as in the Qing Dynasty in the Qianlong period published in the collection of opera scripts "decorated white fur", published its lyrics, can be seen in its generation and circulation of a long time. At the end of the 18th century, a foreigner memorized her tune, and the lyrics were juxtaposed in English and Hanyu Pinyin. Later, an Englishman named John Bellow came to China to serve as secretary to the first British ambassador to China, and in 1804 he published his own book, Travels in China. Perhaps in his eyes, "Jasmine Flower" is a representative of Chinese folk songs, so he specially published the sheet music of "Jasmine Flower" in his book, and the song became the first Chinese folk song to be transmitted overseas in the form of a publication, and began to circulate in Europe and South America, etc. In 1924, the world-famous opera master John Bello came to China as the first secretary of the British ambassador to China. In 1924, the world-famous opera master, Italian composer Puccini, died after completing the first draft of his opera Turandotte while suffering from cancer. Set in China during the Yuan Dynasty, the opera is a fictionalized account of Turandotte, a beautiful but cold-hearted princess. Puccini took the tune of "Jasmine" as one of the main musical materials of the opera, adapted its original song into a chorus for female voices, and the characters in the opera all wore Yuan Dynasty costumes, thus giving a Chinese color and flavor to a Chinese story that was entirely written and performed by foreigners. 1926, the opera was premiered in Italy, and it was a great success. Since then, the aroma of the Chinese folk song "Jasmine" has drifted wider overseas with the circulation of this opera classic. According to media reports in recent years, "Jasmine Flower" was originally called "Flower Tune", and originally had three lyrics, singing about jasmine, honeysuckle and roses in turn. 1942, the musician He Faqi went to the Jinniu Mountain area of Liuhua, Yizheng City, which belongs to Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and collected this folk song, which was widely sung in the local area, from a well-known local folk artist, and recorded the tune and lyrics one by one. In 1957, he adapted the original tune and lyrics, using the same tune for all three verses, changing the original singing of three kinds of flowers into a concentrated singing of jasmine flowers, and ending with a melodious and melodious dragging accent, which became what we are all familiar with now. The song was sung by the Frontier Song and Dance Troupe and later recorded by the China Record Society, and was further popularized. At the beginning of this century, Zhang Yimou used "Jasmine Flower" as background music in his promotional films for the Olympic Games and the Expo, and on August 3, 2003, the logo for the 2008 Olympic Games - "China Seal. Dancing Beijing" was unveiled at the Hall of Prayers in Beijing's Temple of Heaven Park. When the famous athlete Deng Yaping and the famous movie star Jackie Chan slowly walked up to the Hall of Prayer with the emblem, the orchestra played the melody of "Jasmine Flower" again. At this moment you hear the music of "Jasmine", euphemistic with strength, delicate with passion, floating with determination, seems to tell the world: "Jasmine" hometown - the ancient China is striding forward. With the broadcast of these TV movies, I believe that the fragrance of "Jasmine Flower" will float farther and wider. The so-called folk songs are folk tunes that have been widely circulated in a certain region for a long time, and have been adapted and processed in the process of being sung by later generations, so their authors are basically untested.
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