I am from the same hometown as Zhu Yaobang, and when I was a child I heard people say that the old man sang a good handful of songs, and the masterpiece of Sangzhi's folk songs, "Mulberry Tree Children Build a Lampstand," came from his mouth. Until now, I can not believe: such a household name, and even sung by Song Zuying to Vienna's famous folk songs, is from this ordinary old man's hand? Curious, I finally caught a chance to know the "truth", I want to interview the old man. Before, there have been a number of local media on the old man for an interview, CCTV music channel "folk song China" also broadcast his singing of Sangzhi folk songs.
The creation of the "Mulberry Tree", Zhu Yaobang was inspired by the "Mulberry Tree". This is a typical mountain song depicting love. Mulberry tree is a common low tree species in the mountains of Sangzhi County, March and April days, it sends out very neat new shoots, a canopy like a lampstand, Mulberry trees have a shade under the ground, which is clean, young men and women hiding inside to talk about love. Mulberry tree has become the local Tujia young men and women secretly dating and privately booked for life place, has become the local Tujia young men and women love symbol, which is the "Mulberry tree children built lampstand" the basis for the creation. The Mulberry tree is extremely vigorous and tenacious, which symbolizes the long-lasting and endless love of local young men and women. Over the years, Zhu Yaobang has been very envious of those young men and women who talk freely about love under the Mulberry tree, and has often been touched by their unswerving love. So he wanted to write, wanted to sing, wanted to sing the feelings in his heart through the form of song. A good opportunity, a very good creative material happened around him. At the beginning of the liberation, a local young man was drafted into the army, and before he left, he and a girl from a neighboring village made a private appointment for life under the Mulberry tree. On the day of the farewell, the girl kept looking in the direction where her beloved had gone. Zhu Yaobang was touched by their pure and simple love, the inner surge of emotion as if the river broke the embankment flooded out: Mulberry tree tree child set up a lampstand (yoho), I wrote a sealed letter with ah sister with yo. I will not be able to come here for three to five years, and you will be able to move your flowers to another place! I'll write a letter to you and bring it to you. If you don't come back in one year, I'll wait for one year. If you don't come back in two years, I'll work hard for two years!
The simple and sincere feelings, the bold and free pursuit of love, and the reluctance to leave, are reflected here, reflecting the loyal and simple love attitude of the people at that time.
"The Prince of Songs" has been with Sangzhi for half a century
Zhu Yaobang loved to sing since he was a child, and he was able to create new songs on his own, which earned him the reputation of the "Prince of Songs" in the area when he was young.
In the early days of liberation, when the National Minority Folklore Festival was underway, the county, the state, the province, and the central government all made great efforts to tap folklore talents. Zhu Yaobang participated in the director's training class organized by Sangzhi County, and set up a rural literature and art propaganda team after his return, which wrote and acted by itself, and carried out literature and art propaganda in the township of Qiaozibang. At that time, as long as there was a local literary performance, there was Zhu Yaobang's figure. Zhu Yaobang became an active member of the local rural literature and art workers.
In 1956, Sangzhi County Literary Troupe of music specialists Lai Liancheng, Zuo Zesong rushed to the bridge from the bend of the township of Baiguo Village, to Zhu Yaobing learn songs. 1958, at the time of the Great Leap Forward, the call for all cadres to sing folk songs, literary performances, the province in the Baoguing County, held a national folk literature and art propaganda on-site work, when the work of the meeting, it was proposed that the Sangzhi is an ocean of folk songs, to dig up the new folk songs. The Mulberry Tree Children on the Lighthouse" was originally a love song, in order to adapt to the needs of cultural performances, Lai Liancheng "Mulberry Tree Children on the Lighthouse" slightly modified, plus a chorus section, sung at the scene, this singing, a sensation of the whole scene. In this way, "Mulberry children on the lampstand" sung in the province, and gradually become the masterpiece of the Sangzhi folk songs, it is the Sangzhi folk songs in the national folk culture and art in the status of a big step forward. 1978, the province held a Sangzhi folk song concert, and the "Mulberry children on the lampstand" made into a cassette tape, successively in the Provincial People's Broadcasting Corporation, the Central People's Broadcasting Corporation to play. The National Minority Folk Songs Selection also included "Mulberry Tree Children Hitching a Lampstand". The "Mulberry Tree Children's Lighthouse" really went to the whole country.
In August 1987, the Sixth International Folk Song and Dance Gala, the Nineteenth Zakopane Mountain International Literary Competition and the Polish Mountain Song Competition held in Poland, Sangzhi Tujia folk singer Shang Shengwu sang five Sangzhi folk songs such as "Matsang Tree Children's Lampstands", among which "Matsang Tree Children's Lampstands" was adapted for symphonic music, which caused a stir in the foreign performances, and it was known as "Golden Melody". "Golden Melody". A few years ago, the famous singer Song Zuying sang the finale of the song "Matsang Tree Children Build a Lampstand" to people all over the world in the Golden Hall of Vienna, Austria, which caused quite a sensation.
Zhu Yaobang is also a multi-faceted player, playing the flute, playing the erhu, playing the drums, singing lanterns, acting skits and writing lyrics. I said: "You give us a section of the erhu!" He then picked up the year in the county cultural center. He then picked up the year to participate in the county cultural performances won the prize erhu, singing and pulling himself up, the song "Mulberry tree children on the lampstand" pulled a smooth and elegant, the listener as intoxicated.
Creation comes from life, Zhu Yaobang in the creation of the "Mulberry children on the lampstand", and then created several other folk songs, now included in the "Sangzhi folk culture series" of "Sangzhi folk songs". Such as "carrying a pile of honey in my arms": love sister in front of the door (Luo ho) a slope yo, other people go less I go wow more yo; iron shoes huh wear la rotten wow, I put the rock on the lamp lamp nest yo, like carrying a pile of honey in my arms ah wow! There is a ditty called "Drums Playing a Shift" and a skit called "The Blind Man Carrying the Cripple". He also created some of the more widely circulated in the local mountain songs, such as chopping wood song, collect valley song, rice-planting song.
"The originality of "Matsang Tree Children Building a Lampstand" can't be counterfeited'"
Now, at the age of 75, Zhu Yaobang's body is still hard and strong, his ears and eyes are smart and his appetite is very good, and he comes back from laboring every night with his mouth humming non-stop without the slightest bit of fatigue. At night, he also drinks two or two packets of grain burnt. The family's production is all the old man a hand labor, the son works outside, daughter-in-law is not good health, can only do some housework.
From the time he created the "Mulberry Tree Children on the Lampstand" to now has been 50 years, "Mulberry Tree Children on the Lampstand" has been a great success, the old man heart is very satisfied, but at the same time, he also hoped that people in the appreciation of this song at the same time to know that he is the original. Because before this, about the "Mulberry Tree Children on the Lampstand" original has been a big controversy, some say it is Changde, some say it is Zhuzhou, which makes the old man very sad. He said, "Mulberry Tree Children Hitching a Lampstand" was originally created by him, if someone argues, he will never agree. Finally, the old man playfully said, "The original of the Mulberry Tree Children on the Lampstand can not be 'counterfeit'."