Uprooting Luchai Flowers

Folk songs from Yangzhou, Jiangsu.

In Chinese folk songs, "flower" is the most common theme, and there are about three ways of using it: one is to use flowers as a metaphor for people, to express love through flowers, such as "Jasmine" and "Hua'er" The song "Go up to the mountains and look at the plains"; one is to praise nature and teach natural knowledge, such as some "Duhua" from various places; the other is to borrow flowers to inspire singing, using flowers as the medium of singing, and the flowers themselves have no specific meaning. Such as the "Huahua Tune" in the north of Shanxi and this song "Uprooting Luchai Flowers" and so on.

"Uprooting the Reeds and Flowers" was originally a song sung by the local people during labor in the paddy fields. It belongs to the "Yangtian Song". In order to relieve fatigue and self-regulate, rice farmers use songs to express their joy. What they sang The content is highly improvisable, while the melody, lyrics and accent are relatively stable. On the surface, the lyrics of this Yangtian song are divided into three sections. In fact, only the first sentence of each section is the "substantial word", followed by the fixed line "Uproot the reed flowers" and the "fragrant rose magnolia" which substitutes the virtual for the real. The flowers are blooming.” This kind of lyrics structure shows that this song is based on the "flower" to express interest, and does not care about what is being sung. This is also one of the characteristics of general labor songs. This song was recorded by the musician Fike in the early 1950s. It has two kinds of music scores, one is the one included in this book; the other is a stage score. In order to enhance the lyricism, the recorder added the score in the sixth to last chapter. Two short sentences are added to the bar and repeated again, which gives the music a new and lingering meaning, and also balances the music body through expansion, turning the original irregular three sentences into four sentences, and the expanded sentence It plays the role of "turning" sentences. The tone of the whole song is bright, unrestrained and high-spirited, with a little euphemism mixed in. It combines hardness and softness, and combines the characteristics of Jiangnan and Jiangbei, labor songs and lyrical folk songs. This is one of the reasons why it is widely circulated.

In the nine-year compulsory education middle school music textbook "Songs for Middle School Students" newly compiled by the Jiangsu Provincial Education Commission and put into use in the autumn of 2003, the Yangzhou folk song "Uprooted Luchai Flowers" was selected.