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Anyone who knows a Henan folk song will be asked. The answer is "Weaving Flower Baskets", and very few people can name a second "Henan folk song". As a Henan folk song, "Basket of Flowers" has been sung for nearly half a century. However, Guo Fushan, a 76-year-old retired cadre from the Henan Provincial Procuratorate, believes that the song was composed by him and is an "original song", not a "folk song". The lyrics were originally about "picking cotton", not "picking peonies". Whose "Basket of Flowers" is it? And how was it "transformed"?
The 20-year road to defend the rights of the "Basket of Flowers" was "made up" by me, how can I still say that it is a folk song?
The morning of December 19, Zhengzhou clear cold, the reporter came to the people's road Guo Fushan old man's home. Mr. Guo is 76 years old, wearing a pair of presbyopic glasses, looks good spirit. Mr. Guo's home there is a guest - Tianji Law Firm lawyer Wang Jianbing. Wang said that he heard that Mr. Guo to "rights", take the initiative to the door "service".
In Mr. Guo's study, a small bookcase full of audio-visual products related to the "basket of flowers", the reporter casually flipped, more than the "basket of flowers" note for "Henan folk songs.
Mr. Guo took out two CD-ROMs for the reporter and lawyer Wang to see, respectively, China National Records Corporation published in 2004, "national singing celebrities" and published in 2005, "Folk Songs", the two CD-ROMs are included in the "Basket of Flowers", are noted as "Henan folk songs".
It was the publication of these two CD-ROMs that once again aroused Guo Fushan's idea of "defending his rights".
"In 1986, I found that the tape published by the Beijing branch of the China Record Company treated 'Weaving Flower Baskets' as a 'Henan folk song'." Mr. Guo said he sent a letter to the other party requesting that the original lyrics be restored. The other party wrote back, saying, "I didn't know you created the song, so I'll restore it when I republish it later," and sent 30 yuan in payment. "I didn't realize that after 20 years, 'Weaving Flower Baskets' was still signed 'Henan Folk Song'."
In March this year, as a member of the China Music Copyright Association, Guo Fushan sent the association the infringing works purchased from the market, entrusting the China Music Copyright Association to pursue the infringement responsibility of the China National Recording Corporation. According to Guo Fushan, from March to October, although the Association and the record company to negotiate, but the result is the most to pay some fees, the signature will not change.
Recollections of the creation of the cotton fields often go to the cotton picking cotton inspired by the creation of inspiration
Guo Fushan teacher recalled the creation of the "basket of flowers" through. Before the founding of New China, Mr. Guo joined the Eighth Route Army and was mainly engaged in literary creation. Yang Lanchun, the author of the Yu opera "Chaoyanggou", was the captain of the literary team at that time.
After the founding of New China, Mr. Guo first worked as a conductor for the Provincial Song and Dance Drama Theatre, and then moved to the Provincial Literature Federation as a music and art editor. Mr. Guo recalled, "In 1958, I read a song by Zhong Tingrun, an officer of the provincial Literature Federation, in one of the newspapers at the time - 'Weaving Flower Baskets'. This inspired me to compose the lyrics."
"My hometown is the old Luoyang County, and my father was a cotton technician who was very good at tending cotton. I often followed my father to the field to pick cotton." So, when Guo Fushan saw the lyrics of "weaving flower baskets", it only took more than 2 hours to compose the tune of the lyrics. After the lyrics came out, the image of a hard-working and joyful rural girl was born. Guo Fushan said, the song was originally a celebration of the working people: a young girl in a cotton area grows her own cotton, weaves her own flower baskets, and picks her own cotton when it's ripe; after picking the cotton, she sends it to Beijing to send to Chairman Mao.
"As a person from a cotton production area, I have a lot of reveries about cotton." "Why is cotton like peony? Cotton white ah!" "Why can I pick a basket in three or two? Cotton harvest ah!"
Dissatisfied with the change of lyrics
Picking peonies is against morality, and the people of Luoyang will not agree
In 1959, the third issue of the semi-monthly magazine "Songs" debuted the song "Weaving Baskets of Flowers", with lyrics written by Zhong Tingrun and tunes signed by "Shinxuan". "Shin Xuan is me." Mr. Guo said, "Because of my character Xuan, I took the pen name "Shin Xuan".
Mr. Guo sent the reporter a copy of "Weaving Baskets: Selected Works of Guo Fushan," which contains 38 songs composed by Mr. Guo, mostly signed "Shin Xuan."
The Central People's Broadcasting Station (CPB) premiered "Weaving Baskets" in 1960, and the song "Weaving, Weaving, Weaving Baskets" was released on the radio. "Weave, weave, weave a basket of flowers, weave a basket of flowers on Nanshan Mountain, Nanshan Mountain is full of red peonies ......"
In 1986, Guo Fushan happened to hear "Weave a Basket of Flowers" in Erqi Square in Zhengzhou City, only to realize that the tune hadn't changed but the lyrics had been "tampered with".
In 1986, Guo Fushan heard "Weaving Flower Baskets" in Zhengzhou's Erqi Square and realized that the tune had not changed, but the lyrics had been "tampered with," and it had been titled "folk song," with no author of the lyrics or the song.
"Why pick peonies? Peonies are for ornamental purposes, and picking peony flowers is against morality and the reality of the time." When Guo Fushan told Zhong Tingrun about the adapted lyrics, the lyricist was also puzzled: "How did my poem become a folk song? I sing the praises of the working people and the people's leaders, how did it become a girl picking peonies?"
Mr. Guo's wife, Shi Zizhen, also works in literature. She led the group in singing the original version of "Weaving Baskets," which is "picking cotton," not peonies. "The people of Luoyang won't even agree to pick peonies."
Guo Fushan said he would demand the restoration of the original lyrics of "Weaving Basket of Flowers" through a lawsuit on the one hand, and get back the right of authorship on the other.
Guo Fushan composed the song "Weaving Flower Basket"
Weaving, weaving, weaving a flower basket,
Weaving a flower basket to go up to Nanshan.
There's a cotton field in the south mountain,
Blooming like peonies.
Golden peonies come with silver peonies,
Silver peonies, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Picking, picking, picking new cotton,
Picking a basket of three or two,
I'll send the basket to Beijing,
Chairman Mao praised me.
Praise my basket for its skillful weaving,
Praise my cotton for its colorful blossoms.
Whoever sees it likes it.
Weaving a flower basket
Weaving a flower basket to go to Nanshan Mountain
Nanshan Mountain is full of red peonies,
double flowers bloom brightly,
silver dandan, silver peony,
the motherland has no boundaries for the spring colors.
Picking a flower basket is a good idea,
This is a good idea.
Picking, picking, picking peonies,
Three peonies, two peonies, a basket of peonies
The flowers are in full bloom,
The girl loves them,
The colorful flowers are all in full bloom,
All the colors are competing for each other,
All the flowers are in full bloom.