Meiwaer goes to pay her respects to the New Year,
[Gold and silver shuttle, silver and silver shuttle]
The bird calls out to the eight parrot parakeets,
Eight parakeets,
Barbara parakeets,
Meiwaer is going to cross the river,
Which one of you is going to push me?
I will push you!
The boatman, you pull the rudder!
Please get on the boat!
Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Push the girl across the river!
It is better for me to push you!
The boatman, you pull the rudder!
Please get on the boat!
Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Push the girl across the river!
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A folk song from the Tujia region of Enshi, Hubei, called "Dragon Boat Tunes," has been sung all over the country. It is favored by people for its beautiful and melodious tune and lively and funny singing words. However, this excellent folk song "Dragon Boat Tunes", which is popular at home and abroad, is little known about how it is interpreted. The author has participated in the collection and organization of "Longboat Song", and has made some research studies on its derivation in folk circulation. In this paper, I would like to introduce the source of "Longboat Tunes" and talk about my personal views on the factors of its circulation.
Playing with lamps is the main form of entertainment among the national folk of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei Province during the New Year festivals. From ancient times to the present, there are lions, dragon lanterns, colored lotus boat, car car lamps, as well as mussel shells, stilt walkers, etc., there are also tie, painting, modeling art is very high story (lights). The lamp play each has its own characteristics, all kinds of lamps have different entertainment aesthetic interests. Among them, the colored lotus boat is a form of performance relying on the beautifully painted boat as a prop and carrying songs and dances. The performance of the masses, tunes singing easy to catch on, singing lyrics mostly sing ancient people, folklore and fun to see the son hit the son (see what to sing what) improvisational singing, so for the public to hear and see.
Color Lotus Boat (also known as Color Dragon Boat), papier-maché gabion, styled as a four-cornered flying roof, by four round colorful columns set up on the body of the boat, the body of the boat is painted with a fish or a dragon, color dragon boat with silk tied to the four columns in the middle of the "sitting" (in fact, the stand) on the girl, the boat on both sides of the support for an "with the girl", radius man (boatman) paddling back and forth, followed by the boat holding a fan, two ears exaggeratedly hung with red chili peppers or big firecrackers (earrings) "matchmaker", stepping on the drums and gongs dance, like the boat rowing away in the water. During the performance, the boatman leads the singing with a rough voice, and the rest of the people and the "matchmaker" follow the boat with the gongs and drums, twisting the cross-steps in a funny way. The singing of the colorful lotus boat is similar everywhere. Enshi Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province, Lichuan City, Baiyang Town of the colorful lotus boat, the performance of the earlier to sing "planting melon tune" as the main, sung male (boatman) female (girl) duet, the liner notes supplemented by the chorus:
Collaboration: the first month of the New Year, (which clothes yo feed),
melon only into the garden (which feed),
women: [today which tomorrow's Shuttle]
male: [tomorrow which today's Shuttle, the yangbird called (wow)], the yangbird called (wah)]. The birds are calling]
Female: [Barking Parrot (en) (which) brother]
Male: Mei-Wa'er wants to cross the river (wow),
Female: Which one will push me?
Man: I'll push you!
Female: boatman you put the rudder na!
Man: Please get on the boat!
The crowd: Oh hao hey ah left oh hao hey ah left!
Man: Push the girl child across the river (yo yo)!
The next lyrics sing: February spring winds, the melon only set the root; March there is the Qingming, melon seedlings into a forest; April there is a summer, the melon on the shelves; May there is the Duanyang, the melon to taste the new; June three hot, the melon is eaten; July the autumn wind is cool, the melon skin yellow; August Mid-Autumn Festival, to pick the melon; September there is the sun, the melon has been under the field; October the melon is over, the melon seed to be left to the ......
"Planting Melon Tune" sings about the sowing season and the labor process, and there is no intrinsic connection between the planting of melons and the New Year's Eve custom, with only the props for the colorful dragon boat. But the boat and the water is inevitably linked, so people take its colorful dragon boat rowing performance form and "planting melon tune" tune, together with the folk New Year's Day customs, coupled with the mountainous areas to pay New Year's Day is inevitable trekking, so "the first month is the New Year, sister child to pay New Year's Day," "(female) sister child want to cross the river, which to push me? Which one will push me? (Male) I'll push you well"...... new lyrics were formed logically. Over time, the folk gradually called the "melon tune" into the "Longboat tune". Longboat tune" tune local phonetization, interesting and beautiful, popular, easy to sing. Longboat tune" circulated in the folk, and after professional music workers to collect and organize, moved to the stage, with solo, duet, chorus and other forms of singing ......
National Day in 1959, Hubei Province, held the first professional troupes music and dance repertoire. Enshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, song and dance troupe a national folk program, was honored to be selected as the opening ceremony first performance. Grand Theater Hubei Theater was packed, Hubei Provincial Party Secretary Wang Renzhong, Governor Zhang Tixue in person at the opening ceremony, so that the performance appeared to be particularly grand. A warm applause, the crimson velvet curtain opened. The first program performed by the Song and Dance Troupe was the folk song chorus "Dragon Boat Tunes". During the performance, the male and female lead singers' funny performances held the audience tightly, "Mei-wa wants to cross the river, which one is going to push me?" "I'll come and push you!" The audience applauded and laughed. At the end of the performance, the head of the stage to meet the actors, Zhang Tixue governor of the "Longboat tune" is particularly interested in, and immediately asked the Hubei Provincial Opera Troupe singer, the opera "Honghu Red Guard" Han Ying's role of Wang Yuzhen to learn down. From then on, "Longboat tune" has become the singer Wang Yuzhen's reserved repertoire. It was sung all over Hubei, Beijing and the whole country. Subsequently, the popular singing of Longboat Tune in the light music style of Wang Jieshi and Xie Lisi, the ethnic singing of Song Zuying and Tang Can, and the circulation of Longboat Tune in various versions at home and abroad have made Longboat Tune, which originally originated from the "Melon Planting Tune", a lamp song derived from Baiyangba of Lichuan City, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province, become a world-class outstanding folk song.
The author believes that the reason why "Longboat Tune" has been widely popular, the song itself has some powerful spreading factors.
First, in folklore, "Longboat Song" has a singing carrier, or singing environment. That is, during New Year's festivals, colorful dragon boats were a common form of entertainment.
Secondly, the folk song "Dragon Boat Tunes" sings a beautiful and lyrical story: "The first month is the New Year, the sister child goes to pay homage to the New Year." On the way, "Mei-wa'er wants to cross the river," looking for the boat and the boatman, "Which one will push me?" The boatman answers playfully, "I'll push you!" Mei-Wa'er was full of joy: "Boatswain, where do you pull the rudder?" The boatman enthusiastically invited Mei-Wa'er into the boat. While rowing, the boatman sang a mountain song and shouted the boatman's call, "Oi ah zuo that oi ah zuo--" "Push Mei-waer across the river." A simple event, two characters in the story, a beautiful lyrical mountain song duet, let people **** enjoy a fun, a beautiful.
Third, the fun and lively, fast-paced liner notes. Lining words, lining words and lining sentences, is a common form of auxiliary folk songs, "Longboat tune" in the more abundant. In addition to the liner notes "ai", "which" and the liner notes "clothes yo also", there are also liner notes sung in rhythm with the story ["Jin Na Yin Er Suo ", "Yin that Jin'er Shuttle"], the riverbank [yangquiao called ah: Bago parakeet Nago ah - Bago parakeet Nago]; and the boatman's horn [feed ah left that feed ah left]. These liner notes, liner notes, liner notes, make the "Dragon Boat Tunes" more full, more interesting, more flavor.
Fourth, "Longboat tune" also has the Enshi Tujia area folk songs alternate modes, that is, the whole song should have been "La" as the main tone of the plumage, and the last line of the song, "will be the girl child pushed through the river, yo feed" sound is The last line of the song is "Suo", the end of the main tone of the levy mode, thus increasing the fun of the song and a unique sense of singing termination.