Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

After everyone finished singing, Heizi humbly asked Wu Guoming about the characteristics of Guilin folk songs.

This is the old man's strength and what he loves to talk about most.

"Guilin folk songs include flute songs (fishermen songs), folk songs, etc. that are related to labor; dragon boat songs, Helang songs, weeping songs, filial piety songs, etc. that are related to the nation; dance songs that are related to entertaining gods and sacrifices; there are certain Folk tunes with entertainment and appreciation value and some begging and industry hawking songs, etc."

"The singing can be divided into three categories: high tune, flat tune, and ballad singing. High tune folk songs have broad tones, long breaths, and more upper and lower sentence structures; flat tune folk songs have smooth melody, moderate range, steady rhythm, well-proportioned structure, and graceful; ballad folk songs More colloquial”

Wu Guoming kept talking.

"So Wu Lili, what is your great-granddaughter good at?" Heizi interjected.

Everyone's eyes immediately moved to the girl standing next to them.

"My grandfather said I'm not good at anything." The girl seemed a little frustrated.

"I think Lily sings beautifully. Yesterday she sang antiphonally with Teacher Yu on the river. She must have a high accent, right?" Juanjuan interjected again.

Perhaps it was because the age difference between the two was not big, so he defended the girl.

And for today's program, Juanjuan specially studied Guilin folk songs and knew that there are high-pitched tunes and flat tunes.

Wu Guo Ming nodded after hearing this.

"Lily came back and talked about the duet with Teacher Yu. They did use high accents and sang pretty well, but this teacher"

After Wu Guoming finished speaking, he looked at Yu Dongqing with a smile: "Your voice is not suitable for singing folk songs."

ha?

This old man also speaks directly.

However, Yu Dongqing was not angry. He smiled and said, "I was just out of interest yesterday. Miss Wu Lili sang really beautifully, with a mellow and loud voice. She seemed to have used a falsetto, right?" "Yu Dongqing turned around and asked Wu Lili.

"Yes, I also heard it yesterday." Zhou Wei interjected: "The singing method of alternating true and false voices floats in the introduction of the song. It is "earthy" and fashionable, beautiful and ethereal, and has a bit of a dolphin sound."

The girl's face turned a little red when she heard several people praising her.

"Actually, although I'm still a little dissatisfied with Lily's singing, my Lily's singing is still the best among the girls in our village."

In the end, Wu Guoming was proud of his great-granddaughter.

"It's just that there are fewer and fewer people learning folk songs now."

This is also a fact.

Yu Dongqing thought of the old Huayin accent in her hometown. Young people gradually disliked it, and they still relied on people like her third uncle to support them.

In fact, traditional music, including opera and folk songs, all face this problem.

But Wu Lili didn’t seem to agree.

"Grandpa, you can't say that. Although there are indeed not as many people singing folk songs now as before, there are still many Zhuang students in our class who like to sing. Of course, more of them like to sing pop songs."

"I think if our folk songs in Guilin and even Guangxi want to attract young people, they must be improved! Our class calls them new folk songs!"

"You are making nonsense!" Wu Guoming scolded.

"No way." Wu Lili defended: "The times are progressing, should our folk songs also progress with it? As a few teachers just said, there are other ways to use true and false tones in folk songs. You can use half-true, half-false, half-false. Hoarse and half-dumb way of singing.”

Speaking of this, Wu Lili looked at Yu Dongqing, "Teacher Yu, although your voice is hoarse, you can actually sing our folk songs. You don't have to have such a loud voice to sing folk songs, right?"

Ah?

Seeing the girl talking, everyone immediately realized that it seemed that the old man and the young man, three generations apart, had been arguing about this issue more than once.

This issue is quite complicated, and even if we argue for a while, no one will be able to convince anyone.

This is one of the key points of today's shooting. It is a very meaningful thing to explore the inheritance and development of Guilin folk songs, the essence of music, and the collision of ideas between two generations.

But this is an entertainment program after all and cannot be filmed as a debate. The two argued for a while and Heizi immediately concluded:

"Actually, for music makers, from a global perspective, the foundation of popular music is national music. As a musician, you really have to immerse yourself in the folk to learn and excavate valuable materials, and combine the modern techniques and theoretical concepts you have acquired with the folk to create creations. Produce music that belongs to China.”

Everyone agreed with this conclusion and nodded frequently.

"I think the folk song that Teacher Yu sang for the first time yesterday was very nice and had the flavor of a new folk song." Wu Lili said, "I just heard Teacher Yu sing this song and I couldn't help singing it."

"This song is not bad." Wu Guoming touched his gray beard, and without arguing with his great-granddaughter, he was full of praise: "Teacher Yu, did you compose it?"

"Don't dare, don't dare." Yu Dongqing said modestly.

Even in the original time and space, the origin of this song was highly controversial. Most people thought it came from the movie "Liu Sanjie", but in fact it was not at all.

It comes from the prologue of the later folk song and dance drama "Liu Sanjie"!

"Since everyone likes it, how about we sing this song again?" Heizi suggested.

"Okay!" Everyone agreed immediately.

So in this ancient courtyard, Juanjuan and others held guitars, Liu Guoming held the Tianqin, a unique musical instrument of the Zhuang ethnic group, and Wu Lili beat the fishing drum, and everyone started singing.

Sing folk songs here, sing here, join there, join together there

Folk songs are like spring river water

Don’t be afraid of dangerous shoals and lots of bends.

Sing folk songs here, sing here, join there, join together there

The program lasted until noon, and Mr. Wu specially asked his family to provide lunch for the program team. It was not a big fish or meat, but Guilin's special glutinous rice.

It contains many auxiliary ingredients such as mung bean puree, spicy dried radish, sausages, crisps, etc., and it has a unique flavor when singing.

In the afternoon, the recording of the program was over, and everyone set off back to the hotel. There was not much activity tonight. After dinner, Yu Dongqing was about to go out for a walk, but he heard a knock on the door.

I went to open the door and saw two people standing at the door. One was the program host Heizi, and behind him stood a beautiful girl who turned out to be Wu Lili whom I had seen during the day.

"Holly, Lily came to the hotel specifically to find the show crew and said she had something to do with you, so I brought him here." Heizi explained.

Then he said to Wu Lili: "You guys chat, I'm leaving first."

Regardless of what Yu Dongqing said, he walked away.

What does peat mean?

Yu Dongqing saw Wu Lili standing at the door. She was not as elegant as she was during the duet yesterday, and seemed a little embarrassed.

When people came, Yu Dongqing couldn't drive them away, so he smiled and called the girl in.

Wu Lili walked into the room. Yu Dongqing did not close the door, but left it ajar.

"What do you want from me?" Yu Dongqing asked kindly, sitting on the sofa opposite the girl.

"Teacher Yu, I want to sing your song "Folk Songs Are Like Spring River Waters"." The girl said her purpose of coming.

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