Li Huanzhi was born in Hong Kong, his ancestral home is Jinjiang, Fujian Province.
In 1939, he entered the Chongqing Music Cadre Training Course;
In 1943, he entered the Composition Department of the Chongqing Qingmuguan National Conservatory of Music, and after graduation, he stayed in the school as a teacher. His major works include Good Socialism and
New China Youth March.
The Spring Festival Suite was composed in 1955-1956,
The music is based on the tones and rhythms of the folk rice-planting songs of northern Shaanxi Province, with a bright melody,
which vividly represents the scenes of the traditional festivals in which the people of our country are bustling with activity,
overflowing with joy and joy, banging on gongs and beating drums, and dancing and singing.
The Suite consists of four movements. Spring Festival Suite" consists of four movements,
The first movement, "Overture", depicts the scene of people twisting rice-planting songs during the Spring Festival,
the rhythm of the gongs and drums of the rice-planting songs has been added to the piece,
the theme consists of two pieces of Shaanbei oboe,
the music is cheerful and enthusiastic. The middle section is a lilting Shaanxi folk song,
the theme is played by the oboe, then repeated by the cello,
and finally a trumpet solo brings the music to a climactic end.
The second movement, "Love Song," is lyrical,
beginning with a love song from the north of Shaanxi Province played by the English winds,
like a young man walking and talking by the side of a river in the moonlight.
The song is repeated six times, with the violin and cello in
dialogue, before returning to the introduction.
The third movement, "Pan Song," is a round dance, based on a weekend dance in Yan'an, where the author combined folk-style music with modern ballroom dancing.
The fourth movement, "The Lantern Festival," is composed in the key of the Northern Shaanxi suona song
"The Great Pendulum Team,"
this part of the music shows the high skill of the suona player.
The middle part of the piece is composed to the tunes of the northern Shaanxi folk songs
Picking Pumpkin and
Running the Dry Boat, which are interspersed with other tunes.
The ending part of the piece ends with the theme reproduced in the rhythm of the rice-planting gongs and drums.
The Spring Festival Suite focuses on the bustle of the Chinese New Year, and is often performed in the first movement of the suite, the Spring Festival Overture.
The Spring Festival Overture is a bright, bold and passionate piece of music that begins with an introduction by the full orchestra in a grand sound that opens the prelude to the folk festival songs and dances, and the first section is simple, beautiful dance music. The middle section is a lyrical contrasting passage, with musical material from the Shanbei rice-planting songs. The third section is a tighter reproduction of the first section, with more compact and enthusiastic music, and ends powerfully in an atmosphere of jubilation among all the people