"Jasmine" is a Chinese folk song, originated from the Nanjing Liuhe folk singing for 100 years "flower tune", by the military composer He Faq from the compilation of folk songs in Liuhe compiled and organized. 1957 to complete the adapted music and lyrics.
This song has been performed at the handover ceremony of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, the opening ceremony of the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, and other major events. In China as well as the international has a very high visibility, in China and the world widely praised, is one of the representative elements of Chinese culture, because of its special status and representation, known as "China's second national anthem"? .
Expanded Information:
Jasmine (folk song) is called the "Flower Tune", and there are hundreds of ways to sing it, but they are pretty much the same, and it is actually a kind of, what is called in the music industry, "Approximate Tone". "approximate tone". This tune is widely spread in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the main popular area in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
According to the late music historian Zhang Ming (formerly a researcher at the Institute of Ethnic Music of the China Academy of Art) and other experts, the Qing dynasty's "Fresh Flower Tune" was developed on the basis of "Fresh Flower Tune," which was popular in Yangzhou during the Ming dynasty. Yangzhou Qingqu, as well as the Yangzhou opera, which draws rich nutrients from Yangzhou Qingqu, all have the "Fresh Flower Tune" song, which is inextricably linked.
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