(Sung by Tang Peizhu)
"Catching up with the dike and returning to the ah li li" is a folk song depicting a Yi girl catching up with the dike (catching up with the market). The Hakka people call it going to the dike. In the spoken language of the Hakka people, the customary market trade is called "dike day", and people go to the market to trade and do things, so it is called to go to the dike.) The joyful mood of returning. Guangxi lyricist Gu Di lyrics, Huang has a different song, sung by the famous Guangxi Song and Dance Troupe of Tang Peizhu, the famous Yi singer Qu Bi A Wu and so on. The singers also include Luo Ningna, Wu Tong, A Guo, Tang Chan and the Reincarnation Band.
Song Introduction
The song "Catching up with the dike and returning to ah li li" was jointly composed by Gudi and Huang Youyi in the 1980s with strong Guangxi characteristics, expressing the joyful and cheerful mood of the Yi girls returning from the dike. The song soon became a national hit. The song was designated as one of the required songs for the vocal competition organized by the Ministry of Culture of China, and was included in the music teaching materials of national music colleges and universities as well as primary and secondary schools, and was designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural and Health Organization (UNESCO) as a teaching material for the Asia-Pacific region.
Polder is a rural trade fair location, folk called "Wei" or "market town". Catching up with the dike, also known as "catching up with the hustle and bustle" and "meeting the hustle and bustle", is a rural trading custom. So far, the Zhuang people in Guangxi still retain a very elegant traditional customs, dress up to catch the dike. All over Guangxi, the folk tradition of catching song dikes is still preserved. Every time a song dike is driven, thousands of people gather together to sing, and the scene is spectacular. People also use songs to convey their love and choose their spouses. In the language of the Yi people, "ah li li" means "OK", and "ah li li" is also a dialect of Longlin in Baise, Guangxi, meaning "girl", "ah li li" is also a dialect of Longlin in Baise, Guangxi, meaning "girl", "ah li li" is also a dialect of Longlin in Baise, Guangxi, meaning "girl".
The introductory part of the song is melodious, with strong and weak contrasts, and the middle part of the song should be sung in a lively and relaxed manner, with attention paid to the use of breath throughout the song, as well as the high position of the singing, which is sung in a middle-upper small fulcrum.
Background
In the winter of 1979, a group of Zhuang lyricists, including Gudi, went to Longlin De'e Township to experience life. At that time, it was a dike day, only to see the Yi girls dressed in colorful costumes, joyfully shopping for their favorite fabrics, small crafts, and then walk back to the cottage in pairs. The girls laughed and laughed all the way back to the village.
Gudi and several choreographers of the Song and Dance Troupe were y infected and decided to take the scene of the girls on their way back from the pike as an entry point to choreograph a Yi dance, reflecting the dramatic changes in the countryside of the ethnic minority areas after the reform and opening up, and demonstrating the happy life that the Party's good policies have brought to the people. So, Gudi and Huang Youyi wrote the theme song for the dance, "Returning from Catching Wei".
Author Introduction
Lyricist Introduction
Lyricist Gudi
Gudi: Zhuang, born in 1932, national-level writer, one of the pencillers of the opera "Liu Sanjie," lyricist of the song "Catch the Polder Returns ah Mile Li," and renowned at home and abroad for these excellent works.
About the composer
Composer Huang Youyi
Huang Youyi is a famous composer, music educator, percussionist, and national-level composer in Guangxi. He has been engaged in artistic creation for 55 years, and so far, he has published many works.
Singer Profile
Singer Tang Peizhu
The first vocal competition for ethnic minorities was held in 1985, when there were few vocal events in the country, and singers from all walks of life were eager to try. Tang Peizhu, a singer from Guangxi who had just graduated from university, was lucky enough to pass the selection process and enter the competition.
Singer Qu Bi A Wu
According to Tang Peizhu's vocal characteristics, Huang Youyi adapted the theme song of the dance "Catching Wei Wei Returns Ah Li Li" into a solo song. In this song, the Yi tone is used as the development material, and the liner notes "ah li li" are skillfully used, with a strong dance rhythm, showing the joyful and happy mood of the Yi girls returning from the dike.
The famous singer Qu Bi Aw has sung in the "Macau Return Celebration Gala" and other large-scale activities; in the second International Folk Song Festival, the band will be interpreted with rock singing, which is also loved by everyone.