Who is the late "King of Western Song"?

The king of western songs is Wang Luobin, Wang Luobin is China's famous folk musician, he made China's western folk songs popular throughout the country, to the world, has the reputation of the king of western songs. In his 62 years of music creation, he left nearly a thousand songs for people. He collected and composed more than 50 folk songs in Qinghai Province in western China, such as "In That Faraway Place", "Lift Up Your Cover" and "Half Moon Climbing Up", which have become household names in China. However, his life was full of ups and downs and legends.　In That Faraway Place" is a classic song written by Wang Luobin. It was in the spring of 1940, when the boundless Gobi, vast grasslands, blue lakes and lonely shepherds of Qinghai stirred Wang's infinite reverie and creative passion, and he composed the song "In That Faraway Place" by the side of Qinghai Lake. This is the most widely sung song of Wang Luobin, and also one of the most widely sung Chinese songs in the world. Wang Luobin personally cherished this song the most and had it engraved on his tombstone.　Born in December 1913 to a family of clerks in Beijing, Wang studied at the Music Department of Beijing Normal University in 1934. 1937 saw the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and Wang Luobin threw himself into the fight against Japan and for the salvation of his country, traveling to Northwest China alone, where he found inspiration for his compositions, and never left the western lands again.　Wang Luobin collected many local folk songs in Qinghai, and through re-creation, he gave them greater artistic vitality, and the Uyghur folk song "Alamu Khan" is one of them. Wang Luobin made full use of the two-person song and dance quiz to depict the young men's adoration for the beautiful girl, making the tune more witty, funny, light and lively. Wang Luobin's student Zhang Shicai said: "Wang Luobin's song, it is once again created, not the original ecological original things to bring, is after and Han culture, pronunciation and other ethnic melodies combined, Aramu Khan is the most typical, the original melody is like this, but Wang Luobin adapted, the tempo will be slow, resulting in a pause, so that the song produces a new life and intensity."　Many people may think that its author, Wang Luobin, must have been a romantic and sentimental western man, surrounded by flowers and applause all his life. In fact, Wang Luobin's life experience is very difficult, nearly 20 years of his life, because of trumped-up charges, spent in prison. But it was in prison that Wang Luobin was able to discover the beauty of life, ignite his creative passion and write many songs. Mr. Liu Shuhuan, an expert in Wang Luobin's research, commented on Wang Luobin and his works in this way: "If you have contacted Wang Luobin, his works, his life, and his philosophical language, everyone will be shocked and have their hearts washed once. Because he has been in prison several times, he also found beauty in prison, others see the pain, he saw the beauty, in prison, he also wrote a lot of inspiring works, and is still sung on the stage. He wrote a sentence during his critical illness: I would like to bring people the enjoyment of beauty through my songs. This was the truest expression of his heart!"　Instead of crushing Wang Luobin, his ill-fate made him stronger and more romantic. In his words, "Even if I am behind bars, I am open-minded, living my happy days, writing my love songs, composing my beautiful prisoner songs, and welcoming all sufferings with my songs."　Wang Luobin's "Sa'adai," conceived in prison in the 1960s. Saadai is the name of a Uyghur girl, which means "happiness". When Wang Luobin met her, she had just been assigned to the prison where he was serving his sentence as a prison guard. One morning, when Sa'adai, dressed in a braj and wrapped in a flowery turban, appeared in front of the group, a layer of inexplicable ripples swept through almost everyone's heart, and Wang Luobin was no exception. Years later, after his release, Wang Luobin composed a hymn dedicated to that young female prison guard, "Sa'adai", with amazing talent.　Zhao Guodong, an old-generation translator of ethnic languages and literature from Xinjiang, recalls having formed a special friendship with Wang Lubin in prison. Zhao said, "Sitting in prison can be considered the greatest humiliation, but he didn't show any depression, pessimism, or despair, and he kept moving forward. Some of his works created inside the prison are a proof of this. In addition, after his release from prison, his works became more brilliant, but he did not condescend, nor was he overjoyed, he was still the same, still Wang Luobin. For a long time, no matter in difficult circumstances or in good times, he kept a normal mind, which I think is not easy to be a human being."　Wang Luobin has been singing for "love" all his life, but this kind of "love" is a great love, a celebration of all the good things on earth. His own love, in his words, is "a lack that is hard to fill". Whether it was his first love, Luo Shan, or the Tibetan girl Zhuo Ma, who gently lashed him, or the Taiwanese writer San Mao, who admired each other's talents in his later years, or even his wife, Huang Yulan, Wang Luobin's love for them was astonishing, but in the end, they were not able to stay together for a long time. For Wang Luobin's three sons, there is a father's love that is difficult to fulfill. Wang Luobin's second son Wang Haixing said: "My father from the liberation, the troops into the border, in addition to his company is squatting in prison, we are boarding. He had no concept of family, just Do-re-mi. He once said later that I owed my children too much."　Qinghai is the place where Wang Luobin's career began, the source of his inspiration, and the most brilliant place in his life. On June 29 this year, in the best season of Qinghai, Wang Luobin Music and Art Museum was officially opened in Xihai Town, Haibei Prefecture. This is China's largest centralized display of Wang Luobin music culture and art memorial hall. Memorial hall focused on displaying a large number of photographs, objects and nearly 100 pieces of unpublished songs, opera manuscripts. Liu Xizin, the former director of the China Central Opera House and a famous composer, hopes that more people will sing Wang Luobin's songs, which is the best memorial to Wang Luobin's music and art