Bamboo in the moonlight

In Lucy City, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, there grows a kind of bamboo, which is called "Mai Danghan" in Dai language, and "Lila Bamboo" in local Chinese. Especially in Mangshi Dam, the whole dam area is almost covered by this kind of bamboo. The growth of this bamboo is characterized by the pong as a unit, and the hair pong is not big, each pong a few to a dozen bamboo ranging from far away from the sparse, like the scattered phoenix tail.

In 1979, Tianjin Song and Dance Theatre, a group of three people to the Dehong State, Yunnan Province, the lyricist, the poet Mr. Ni Weide in Mangshi Dam to see the Dai young men and women in the bright moonlight heaps of love in the bamboo forest, Qing Qing me, love songs murmuring, hulusi sound, the evening wind blowing bamboo tip shaking ...... poets! Poetry, wrote "moonlight phoenix-tailed bamboo" lyrics, "phoenix-tailed bamboo" of the analogous form like God is more like, so that the mood has been sublimated, followed by the famous composer Shi Guangnan music. Since then, the song has been sung all over China and spread to the corners of the world

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