The original song of Mi Xue Bing Cheng is an American folk song "Oh! Susanna》。

This song was written by stephen foster, the father of American pop music, in p>1847. It premiered in an ice cream shop in Pittsburgh, and then caught fire in America. In 1932, Li Jinhui, the father of pop music in China, wrote "Don't Cry Susan" to the tune of Susanna, which was sung by the then red singer Wang Renmei in the old China fire.

Oh, Susanna is a folk song written by American composer Stephen Collins Foster. As one of the most famous songs of Foster himself and even the United States, if BillBoard had existed at that time, his name would have hovered at the top of the charts for a long time. Although "Susanna" sung in the song probably comes from Foster's sister's name, the story has nothing to do with her, because Susanna is black in the song.

The black hero is from Alabama, and the banjo was originally an African musical instrument. Obviously, this black man is a survivor of the slave trade from across the ocean. His lover is from Louisiana-why do two people from different places fall in love? Maybe they knew each other before they were sold to America.

If the situation is optimistic, his lover should still be a free man, and the identity of the hero is almost certain to be a slave. In 1849, there were only about 2, free blacks in Alabama, while the free blacks in Louisiana accounted for 35% of the black population.

But the result may be worse: his lover was transported to the slave market in New Orleans, which was then the center of the domestic slave trade in the United States, crowded and full of diseases.

In p>1975, Samuel Hui, the godfather of Hong Kong pop music, added Cantonese words to Don't Cry for Susan. In nine cases out of ten, people who can speak Cantonese can sing this song.

I have to sigh that "susan" is a good name, which is common to both China and Britain! In 221, this ancient melody was rewritten into a honey snow ice city featuring ice cream advertisements! There were four fires in 174 years, from American ice cream shops to China ice cream shops. History witnessed an interesting reincarnation!