Where is the road?
Lyrics: Yan Su
Composer: Xu Jingqing
Singing: David Jiang
You carry the load, I'll lead the horse.
Welcome the sunrise and send away the sunset glow.
Embark on a bumpy road and become a road.
Fight, start again, start again.
La … la …
Spring and autumn, winter and summer
Sweet and sour.
Dare to ask where the road is, the road is at your feet.
You carry the load, I'll lead the horse.
Wading through mountains and rivers, frosty shoulders.
Lightning and thunder, ren chifa.
Until the end of the world.
La … la …
Spring and autumn, winter and summer
joys and sorrows of life
Dare to ask where the road is, the road is at your feet.
La … la …
Spring and autumn, winter and summer
joys and sorrows of life
Dare to ask where the road is, the road is at your feet.
Extended data
"Dare to Ask Where is the Way" was first sung by Zhang Baomo, which is the episode and theme song of 1986 TV series The Journey to the West, and was sung by David Jiang after the episode of 1 1. The song 1986 autumn was included in the literature and art propaganda materials of socialist spiritual civilization. 1988 won the first China Top Ten Golden Melody Awards.
At that time, this song was intended to be used as an episode. It is a song full of masculinity. One day, Xu Jingqing was sitting in the window of a bus and saw snow falling and pedestrians rushing forward. Suddenly, a melody popped up in his mind, so he immediately got off the bus and wrote the melody "Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter …" on the cigarette box with a borrowed pencil.
After coming back, he spent about two hours at his desk, completing the whole song from the first sentence "You carry the load, I will lead the horse", and only changed two notes two days later. Because the mainstream of music creation at that time was the need of nationalization, Xu Jingqing specially added three-string accompaniment to his arrangement.
Yan Su naturally wrote the first half of the song with the help of the story of Journey to the West he saw when he was a child, but he still felt that it lacked depth. So he closed the door for a few days and pondered the story carefully. He was so anxious to walk back and forth in the room when he met the bottleneck. The son who is reviewing his lessons said that "there is a road on the carpet", which reminded him of the last sentence of Lu Xun's novel "Hometown". "In fact, there is no road in the world. If there are more people walking, it will become a road."
This kind of artistic conception coincides with the story of learning from the scriptures, so he got inspiration from it and wrote the conclusion that "I dare to ask where the road is, and the road is at my feet".