The song "Plucking Roots and Flowers" is a Han Chinese folk song from Jiangdu, Jiangsu Province, which belongs to Shao Bo Yang Horn, and originates from a beautiful legend in the song festival:
Anciently, Shao Bo was famous as the town of opera, and there were a lot of people who knew how to sing, but the one who sang the best song had to be Ying Ge. At that time, there was a custom in the Shaobo area that every year on June 19th, there would be a singing contest, and the one who sang well would be able to get the title of "King of Songs".
Before the contest, however, Yingge fell ill, and coincidentally, she met a miracle doctor who told Yingge to go to a place where the water was fast and the waves were big and pull out a root of lutefisk and drink it in decoction, and to take three doses of it in a row, to make sure that the medicine would get rid of the disease. As a result, when Inge tried it, she really got well.
On the day of the competition, Inge simply sang the song, and everyone was amazed. From then on, the folk song "Plucking the Rush Flower" was sung on the shore of Shao Bo Lake and spread to the whole country.
Then Qian Jingren, Fei Ke and others led a group to Yangzhou and Jiangdu to collect a large number of folk songs and processed them. The song "Plucking the Roots of Lutefisk Flowers" came into being, which you can hear now.
At that time, Qian Jingren was the vice minister of the propaganda department of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, and Fei Ke was the captain of the Jiangsu Provincial Song and Dance Team, and the two of them, one of them wrote the lyrics and the other one adapted the tunes, and the process of processing and organizing this time lasted until the end of 1954 and the beginning of 1955.
In Chinese folk songs, "flower" is one of the most common themes, and there are about three ways to use it: one is to use flowers as a metaphor for people, using flowers to express love, such as "Jasmine Flower" and "Flower Child" order song "Going up to the high mountains to look at the plains"; one is to praise nature and teach knowledge about nature, such as the local community. One is to glorify nature and teach natural knowledge, such as some of the "flowers"; another is to use flowers as a medium for singing, and the flowers themselves do not have a specific meaning. For example, the "Flowering Tune" of northern Shanxi Province and the song "Plucking Rush Flowers".
In 1953, when the Song and Dance Troupe of Jiangsu Province was in its infancy (the troupe had not yet been established, and there was only one team of singers and dancers), Qian Jingren, Fei Ke and others led a team of singers to Jiangdu and Yangzhou, where they collected a large number of folk songs, which they processed. At that time, Qian Jingren was the vice minister of the propaganda department of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, Fei Ke was the captain of the Jiangsu Provincial Song and Dance Team, and the two of them wrote the lyrics and adapted the tunes, and this processing and organizing process lasted until the end of 1954 and the beginning of 1955.
Jiangsu folk singer Xuefei was the first person to sing the song. in July 1956, Beijing held a national folk art and literature festival. Xuefei sang "Plucking Roots and Flowers" at the conference and received a warm welcome. The song was then sent to Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai for the appreciation of the head of the central government. After Xuefei finished the song, Comrade Zhou Weiqi from the Ministry of Culture came backstage to inform her that "Premier Zhou wants to hear you sing the Huai tune." So she went back on stage and sang a selection from Liu Guiying is a Big Red Flower. When the Premier received the actors on stage, he said to Xuefei, "You sing very well, the folk songs of your hometown are so beautiful!" After returning from Beijing, Xuefei often continued to collect and organize folk songs (nearly a thousand) while performing. Plucked Rushes Flower" is a must for every performance, the audience will not let her off the stage without singing this song, which shows that the masses are very fond of this song. She has **** sung nearly 1,000 shows. In 1956 and 1981, Xuefei had two successive recordings of "pulling the root of the reed flower", both recorded by the Central Radio Station.