This song was produced in the former Soviet Union and the Republic of Uzbekistan. Its original name was "Aria" ("Karakashi Uqim"). In 1932, Armenian composer A. Khachaturian used this melody in the third movement of "Piano Trio". At the same time, this song also spread to China and was popular among ethnic groups in the west. It was collected by Wang Luobin in Jiuquan, Gansu in 1939.
In the late 1930s, when Wang Luobin was promoting performances in the Hexi Corridor of Gansu Province with the Northwest Anti-Japanese War Troupe, he recorded a song called "Ariya" from a Uyghur businessman from Xinjiang. 》Xinjiang folk song. This is a folk song spread in southern Xinjiang.
Wang Luobin once recorded the origin of this folk song in his "Music Notes": "This dance is a local game in southern Xinjiang. During the autumn harvest, when resting on the wheat field, it was performed by An elderly man put on women's clothes and a hijab, and then a young man sang and danced beside him. Finally, he lifted the hijab and saw an old man with white hair inside. Everyone cheered. Laugh, and then continue working. "This native game originated in the rural areas of southern Xinjiang. It is a form of entertainment invented by people to amuse and relieve fatigue while working. It has little artistic value in itself.
Not long after the Qinghai Children’s Anti-Japanese War Theater was established, Wang Luobin, a music teacher at Kunlun Hui Middle School in Xining, was busy writing performances for the children. He found the folk song "Aria" that he recorded in Hexi, and planned to use the music and dance materials of this local game to write a singing and dancing song and dance program for the children of the troupe. According to custom, the bride's hijab can only be lifted once during the wedding. But Wang Luobin ingeniously caused the bride's hijab to be lifted up four times in a row. When performing on stage, every time you lift the hijab, there will be a different artistic effect.