The content of the song "In the old days

The lyricist and composer of "Past Times" is Ulantoga, who was born in Hailar. In his eyes, his hometown is getting more and more beautiful, in his heart, his hometown is getting more and more heavy. When he was a child, his family lived in the cadre dormitory on the east side of the river, only a few hundred meters away from the Imin River, and the families were very close to each other in front of and behind the house. Open the window of the state, often from this or that house will come out of the melodious singing or instrumental music. Toga's grandfather as a private school teacher, has a deep cultural cultivation, but also a musician, proficient in the four hu, three strings, flute and other musical instruments, he played the four hu very well, uncle Sun Liang is one of the four famous folk artists in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. In the Humen Party Committee organs work father to middle age, only from the hands of the grandfather took over the four hu, soon pulled a very good flavor, the horse head qin, flute also played very well. Mother is originally from the horqin grassland, where many ancient folk songs have been passed down. Ulaan Toga as a child to listen to his mother sing those folk songs with sadness, often in tears, he is the youngest son of ant, but also six children in the most well-behaved a child. His mom later told him that he could sing before he could speak, and that he would hum the melodies he heard in full.

Ulantoga's greatest joy was the instrumental ensemble at every family gathering, where each of the six siblings could play and sing. The older brother went to the Beijing Normal University art department, two sisters are enviable to enter the Inner Mongolia Art School, learning instrumental music. The second sister pulled the erhu like a sob, the third sister to play the pipa played beautifully, it is really "big pearls, small pearls fall into the jade plate", the memory. The second brother played the viola in the Hulun Song and Dance Troupe, and the eldest sister played the yangqin in the Amateur Propaganda Team. Whenever the family reunion, the family pulling, singing, very lively. Little Toga what musical instruments will, some people play the erhu, he will play the four hu, some people play the trumpet, he went to play the flute. Since childhood, he has been a child who knows how to be humble and understanding.

This is due to his mother's saving teachings to him. In fact, his mother never spoke harshly of him, but he could hear sadness and reproach in her songs. "Mother was a very wise person, although she didn't have a job, she was a cultured and respectable lady in both Mongolian and Chinese." That's how Ulaantoga's wife, Toya, still speaks of her mother-in-law.

In Ulantoga's memories, the water of the Yimin River was especially clear, and he often went to the river with his buddies on summer evenings to play his guitar softly along with the quietly flowing river. Looking at the crystalline stars in the sky, reverie future.

Hailar is a place full of diverse musical elements. Russia, Mongolia, Ewenki, Oroqen, Daur Different styles of music to Ulantoga intoxicated, Ulantoga in the home of a friend also heard the pure Japanese folk songs, music in what a wonderful world ah! In this cultural atmosphere, just eight years old, he wrote his first song.

Ulantoga's family was not spared by the people of Inner Mongolia, who were badly hurt by China's unprecedented catastrophe, and his father left them when he was 15 years old. He couldn't forget the sadness of his mother's horqin folk songs. However, the grasslands of Inner Mongolia are a magical land, where people have suffered much hardship and trauma, but deep down they have a stronger desire and pursuit of art. Ulaan Toga said that music can make people become educated people, because music is the expression of human emotions, people if there is no emotion, that can still be called what "people"?

Because of the abundance of emotional appeal, Ulantuoga holds a grateful heart to create. Grateful for the grassland, grateful to the mother, grateful for the beautiful nature of this place, grateful for the dew and sunset, rivers and forests, grass and trees ......

20 years later, Ulantoga used the word "romantic" to summarize the people of his hometown. He said, it may be because of the beautiful Yimin River flowing through the city center, for the people here to bring a rare romantic temperament.