Zou Ma
Zou Ma is an excellent piece of early Guangdong music. There is a theory that Lu Wencheng adapted the suona Qupai "Big Door", but it has not yet been tested. "Walking Horse", also known as "Walking Horse Hero", has a lively rhythm and a lively melody, showing people's high spirits. The music structure is short and distinct. Fixed termination phrase runs through the whole song. The rhythm of music has syncopation effect, which makes the tone of music vigorous, lively and rich, and the feeling of happiness overflows outside the music.
Life of Lv Wencheng
On March 12, 1898, Lv Wencheng was born in Nanxia Village, a suburb of Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province (now it is the neighborhood committee of Nanxia New Village, Shiqi District, Zhongshan City, and the descendants of his second brother Lv Wenen still live here, but the former residence of Lv Wencheng is no longer available). His real name is Yang, and he changed his surname to Lu because he passed it on to someone named Lu. From 191 to 1932, he lived in Shanghai with his adoptive father.
In 199, 11-year-old Lv Wencheng went to Guang Zhao Yi School run by Guangdong Fellowship Club to study with Yang Xinlun, who later became a dulcimer master.
In 1919, 21-year-old Lv Wencheng joined the Shanghai "Chinese Concert" (one of the earliest modern folk music organizations in China), and soon he served as the director of the Shanghai Music Department.
in the 192s, Lu Wencheng was the director of the music department of Jingwu Sports Association founded in Huo Yuanjia. Around 1923, Lu Wencheng toured Tianjin, Beijing and Wuhan with the Chinese Concert and Jingwu Sports Association, and Cantonese music was inserted between martial arts performances. Lv Wencheng soloed Cantonese operas The Yanzilou and Xiaoxiang Qinfen, and led Erhu Opera Liu Yaojin.
In 1925, Hong Kong Zhongsheng Charity Society invited Lv Wencheng to Hong Kong to participate in Dongjiang disaster relief performance. The Hong Kong Chinese Chamber of Commerce also came forward to hold a grand welcoming banquet for Lu Wencheng. After visiting Hong Kong and returning to Shanghai, Lv Wencheng's music creation entered its heyday.
In 1926, he took part in performances organized by Jingwu Sports Association to travel to Beijing, Tianjin and Wuhan. In addition to accompanying sports and dancing music and playing Xiao Taojiang, To the Spring Thunder, Liu Yaojin and other songs, he also played and sang Cantonese songs created by him, such as The Swallow House and Xiaoxiang Qinfen. Because of his crisp and beautiful voice, he went ahead. During his stay in Shanghai, Lu Wencheng often performed with Professor Ou Xian and violinist Situ Mengyan of Jingwu Sports Association, and learned violin and western music theory from Situ Mengyan.
In 1932, Lv Wencheng moved south to Hong Kong, where he lived with Shao Tiehong in a house on Kendo Road, Hong Kong, studied music together, and engaged in recording and performing activities with musicians from Guangzhou and Hong Kong. As a regular artist employed by Hong Kong New Moon, Harmony and Gelin Record Company, Lv Wencheng has long been engaged in the work and music creation of algae-made Cantonese music and Cantonese opera records, and has written a large number of anti-Japanese works to inspire people's patriotic enthusiasm and fighting spirit against the enemy. During this period, he composed anti-Japanese music such as Crying for the Great Wall, Cherry Blossoms Falling, Sending People, Battle of Taierzhuang, Hating the East Emperor, etc. After the fall of Hong Kong, Lu Wencheng was exiled to Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Macao and the towns and villages in the Pearl River Delta, and performed "Qi Broken Array", "Triumph" and "Qishan Phoenix" everywhere to inspire the people and make them into records. According to the incomplete statistics of records copied by China Recording Company, Greater China, Crescent, Gelin, Harmony, Gaoting, EMI, Shengli and other record companies, as well as the Chinese Record Society established after the liberation of China, there are more than 27 records recorded by him.
in 1933, the Sanjiang flood in Guangdong province, he took an active part in the relief performance sponsored by Hong Kong Zhong Sheng Charity Society. Since then, Lv Wencheng has repeatedly performed with Yin Ziwei and Tai-so Ho in Zhongshan, Taishan and Guangzhou.
In 1944, Lv Wencheng returned to Zhongshan for the first time. He performed jointly with Yin Ziwei, Tai-so Ho and Cheng Yuewei. In 1947 and 1951, Lu Wencheng returned to his hometown twice to perform. At the last performance, he presented the local "Xiaoya Shanfang" music club with a string-mounted piano score, telling them not to lose their skills, but to pass them on to the next generation. When the Guangdong Folk Music Orchestra was founded in 1958, he wanted to invite him back to Guangzhou to take part in the work. He wanted to come, but he finally shirked it because he owed his boss too much money.
In 1973, 75-year-old Lv Wencheng visited Beijing and Guangzhou with a Hong Kong literary and art delegation, and he also proposed to write some songs for China. In 1981, Lu Wencheng died in Hong Kong.