Hubei Jianshi Folk Song Huang Si Sister Lyrics

Man: Huang Si Sister

Woman: What are you shouting for?

Man: I'm sending you a silk handkerchief

Woman: What do you need a silk handkerchief for?

Man: Wear it on your sister's hand, it will look good on the road, and people will look at it when you are a guest, my god-sister

Man: Huang Sis

Woman: What are you shouting at?

Man: I'm sending you a gold hairpin

Woman: What do you need a gold hairpin for?

Man: Put it on your sister's head, it will look good on the road, and people will look at you when you are a guest, my god-sister

Man: Huang Si Sister

Woman: What are you shouting at?

Man: I'm sending you a silk shirt

Woman: What do you need a silk shirt for?

Man: Wear it on your sister, it will look good on the road, and people will look at it when you are a guest, my god-sister

Man: Huang Sis

Woman: What are you shouting at?

Man: I'll give you a pair of gold rings

Woman: What do you need a pair of gold rings for?

Man: Wear it on your hand, it will look good on the road, and people will see it when you are a guest, my god-sister

Man: Huang Sis

Woman: What are you shouting at?

Man: I'm sending you a pair of silk socks

Woman: What do you need a pair of silk socks for?

Man: wear on the feet of the sister, walking and good-looking, guests have to look at, my dry sister

Woman: Oh my brother, you send so many!

Man: Something this less, you do not say so.

Expanded Information:

The "Yellow Four Sisters" folk song is a delightful, self-indulgent song for the masses. The performers are a man and a woman or two men and two women, singing with simple dances, and showing the Tujia people's enlightened attitude towards marriage and love with their funny and witty performances and movements.

Jianshi Gaoping, Sanli and Hongyan are the gateway to Yichang in Enshi Prefecture. As early as in the seventh year of the Qing Yongzheng reign (1729), Gaoping, Sanli and Hongyan had already appeared in the market, and commerce was once prosperous.

The end of the Qing Dynasty, a group of Han merchants every spring and fall from Yichang, Shashi, Wuhan and other places to sell foreign cloth, needle and thread, silk handkerchiefs, leg wrappers, headbands and other commodities in the territory of the Shinanfu shoulder cloth, hand-operated bells and drums, walking the streets and alleys to sell, or down the countryside to catch up with the field, in-depth to the farmhouse to peddle the goods.