Dare to ask where the road is
Sung by: Jiang Dawei
You carry the burden, I lead the horse
Welcome the sunrise, send away the evening sunlight
Tread the bumps and turn into an avenue
Fight against the hardships and dangers, and then set off, and set out
La la la...
After a long time in spring and autumn, in winter and summer.
One scene of sweet and sour, bitter and spicy.
Dare I ask where the road is? The road is beneath my feet.
La-la...
Spring and fall, winter and summer.
Sweet and sour, bitter and spicy.
Dare I ask where the road is? The road is at your feet.
You carry the burden, I hold the horse
Through the mountains and wade through the water, two shoulders of frost
The wind and clouds, thunder and lightning, any scolding
All the way to the end of the world, to the end of the world
La-la...
One more time in spring, fall, winter and summer.
A scene of sweet and sour, bitter and spicy.
Dare to ask where the road is? The road is under the feet.
Dare to ask where the road is, the road is under the feet.
Introduction:
Dare to Ask Where the Road Lies is a song composed by Xu Jingqing with lyrics by Yan Su, first sung by Zhang Tyrannomo, and is the interlude and theme song of the 1986 television series Journey to the West, which was sung by Jiang Dawei after the 11th episode.
The song was included in the Socialist Spiritual Civilization Literary and Artistic Propaganda Materials in the fall of 1986. it was awarded the First China Top Ten Golden Songs for Film and Television in 1988.
:The song was composed for the 1986 version of the TV series "Journey to the West"; at the end of 1981, the central leadership comrades in view of the retransmission of the Japanese TV series ratings far exceeded the other shows, as well as the purchase of the TV film "Journey to the West" from Japan received hundreds of viewers to write letters of protest against these phenomena, decided to start trying to film their own masterpiece adaptation, the deputy director of the China Central Television (CCTV) to let the then engaged in the Yang Jie, who was working as a stage broadcaster at the time, to organize a crew and begin filming "Journey to the West".
In 1981-1982, Yang Jie, the director of CCTV, organized a group to prepare for the TV series Journey to the West, and at the stage of searching for investment, composers from all walks of life came, and Yang Jie, regardless of fame, asked each to compose a piece of music; in the winter of 1983, Xu Jingqing, as the 10th candidate, began to enter the music of the series; at that time, the song was intended to be used as an interlude, originally a song full of masculine music, but also a song about a man's love of the world. The song was intended as an interlude and was originally a masculine song.
Hsu Jingqing was sitting on a bus one day when he saw snowflakes flying outside the window and pedestrians in a hurry, when the melody popped into his head, so he immediately got off the bus and used a borrowed pencil to write down the melody "spring, fall, winter, and summer ......" on his cigarette case; when he got back, he sat down at his desk and wrote the melody on the cigarette case. When he got back to his desk, he spent about two hours to complete the song from the first line, "You carry the burden, I lead the horse", and only changed two notes two days later. Because the mainstream of music creation at the time called for nationalization, Xu Jingqing deliberately added a three-stringed accompaniment to the arrangement