"Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" is a folk song from Guangdong.

"Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" is a famous piece of Guangdong music. Its style is brisk and unique. It describes the relaxed and freehand life of ordinary citizens and highlights the typical Guangdong folk music style. It first appeared in the Qing Dynasty. When Li Hongzhang was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he sent a copy of this song to the imperial court for performance. The title of the song "Caiyun Chasing the Moon" means that the immortal is driving colorful auspicious clouds towards the moon palace. Chinese classical literature often contains descriptions of immortals riding on colorful clouds. The "Caiyun" in the song's title means immortals riding on colorful clouds.

This song describes the moon palace fairyland in people's minds, and highlights the relaxed and freehand impression of ordinary people's lives. In 1932, when Ren Guang was the director of the program department at Shanghai EMI Records, he and Nie Er ordered a batch of ethnic orchestral music for the EMI Chinese Orchestra and recorded it. "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" was one of them, which was adapted into National orchestral music. In 1935, Ren Guang and Nie Er adapted "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" into a national orchestral piece.

Guangdong Music

Guangdong music is a traditional silk and bamboo music popular in the Guangfu dialect area of ??the Pearl River Delta. It is Han music with distinctive regional colors and is one of the representatives of Guangfu culture. one. Its predecessor was mainly Cantonese opera cut-scene music and ditties used to highlight performances. Around the early 20th century, it developed into an independently performed instrumental music. After spreading to other places, it was called Cantonese music. Reaching its peak in the 1920s and 1930s, Cantonese music began to become popular across the country.

After entering the 1940s, many famous Cantonese music songs became state banquet and welcome music and were known as "national music". The representative repertoire includes "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon", "Pinghu Autumn Moon", "Drunk Man Fishing for the Moon", "Thunder in a Dry Sky", "Dragon Race to Win the Gold", "Backgammon", "Inverted Curtain", "Entertainment Shengping", "Rain Beats Plantains", "Yang Cuixi" "Double Voice of Hate", "Spring Horse Trial in the Suburbs", "Spring Morning in the Mountain Country", etc. On May 20, 2006, Guangdong music was approved by the State Council of the People's Republic of China and included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Guangdong Music