The original singer of the song "Embracing the Army Flower Drum" is An Bo.
Anbo wrote the lyrics and arranged the song "Flower Drums for Supporting the Army" based on the folk song "Playing the Yellow Sheep Tune" in northern Shaanxi Province. The flower drums of northern Shaanxi are more famous, and are often performed by two men and two women, one with a gong and the other with a drum on his back, singing and dancing, accompanied by gongs and drums, and sometimes accompanied by suona.
The "Flower Drums for Supporting the Army" is sung in pairs of male and female voices, and maintains the performance form of the flower drums of northern Shaanxi. A large number of songs emerged during the campaign, the most influential and famous of which was the "Flower Drum for Supporting the Army," which was written and arranged by An Bo based on the northern Shaanxi folk song "Playing the Yellow Sheep Tune.
Appreciation of the song "Embracing the Army Flower Drums"
Ann Bo is a modern Chinese musician, an organizer and leader of revolutionary literature and art, and a Chinese composer. The northern Shaanxi folk song "Supporting the Army Yangge" is also known as "Supporting the Army Flower Drum" or "Supporting the Eighth Route Army". The whole song consists of square expanded sections, **** six lines, the first four lines with the characteristics of the rise and fall, five or six lines are three or four lines of the change of the repetition.
The tune of "Embracing the Army Rice-planting Song" is kind and beautiful, with the decorative six degree downward intervals jumping in and the unique use of the liner notes "Hi to the Begonia Flower", which adds a strong flavor of life to the music, and vividly expresses the warm scene of the people embracing the army in the border area with the joyful and jumping rice-planting song dances, drums and gongs vibrating in the sky, and the sound of the suona.