Mr. Peng Yiwan, a Minnan cultural scholar, said that Minnan songs in Xiamen and Taiwan Province Province have deep roots. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Minnan songs swept across the Taiwan Strait. At that time, Wendetang and Huiwentang in Xiamen were publishing houses that printed Minnan dialect songs. They first used watermarks, and later with the gradual development of technology, they used lithographs. These pamphlets sell well in Xiamen and are also sold to Taiwan Province Province. At the end of Qing Dynasty, Taiwan Province Province was occupied by Japanese, and many people in Taiwan Province Province showed national integrity. At that time, a song named Xue Mei's Fourth Army was widely sung on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The song sings: "Sing a song for you, Xue Mei is really straight ... I suggest you listen carefully and learn from Xue Mei's trip." It's about a woman who leads a strong life with her children after her husband's death. After the story spread to Taiwan Province Province, it was given a new meaning. Because Taiwan Province Province was under Japanese rule at that time, people used a woman's husband to observe a festival to express their unwillingness to be ruled by Japan, their integrity and their national integrity. Xue Meisi's string was called "National Day Tune" or "Xiamen Tune" at that time. 1922, Xiamen talented woman Zhou Shuan wrote the first Minnan coloratura song-Sleeping Song, accompanied by the piano. It can be called the embryonic form of popular songs in Minnan. Later, Yao Zhanfu, whose ancestral home was in Xiamen, traveled across the ocean to Taiwan Province to write songs in Minnan. His masterpieces Bitter Wine and Sour Heart were popular in Taiwan Province. Zeng Zhongying, a famous songwriter, also went to Taiwan Province Province after graduating from Xiamen University. These people have played an inestimable role in the development of Minnan songs in Taiwan Province Province. In the 1920s and 1930s, Taiwan Province Province produced a number of Minnan writers. For example, Taiwan Province native musician Zhan Tianma wrote lyrics, Wang Yunfeng composed Peach Blossoms and Blood Tears, and Cai Deyin's Song of Red Orioles, all of which were re-written with the ancient songs of Su Wu shepherding. 1933- 1937 is the golden age of popular songs in Taiwan Province. Many classics that are still being sung were created at that time, such as "Looking at the Spring Breeze", "Moonlight Night Sorrow", "rainy night flower" and "Four Seasons Ballads". These songs, like a warm and soft spring breeze, have blown through the streets, cities and villages, soothing the loneliness of the "sweet potato boy" (referring to the people of Taiwan Province Province) under the control of the "four-legged boy" (referring to Japanese rule), and also spread across the Taiwan Strait separated only by a strip of water.
Minnan songs are very popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Watching the Spring Breeze is almost a well-known classic song of southern Fujian, which has been popular on both sides of the strait for decades. From 65438 to 0933 AD, Taiwanese musician Li Yigen created Wang based on the artistic conception of China's classical feelings in The West Chamber, and combined it with Zheng Yuxian's China traditional pentatonic music to create this enduring masterpiece. The lyrics sing: sitting alone under the night light without company, the cold wind blowing opposite, seventeen or eighteen unmarried, thinking about their small family, their children are beautiful and white, and want to ask him if he is afraid of bad news (sorry), playing the lute in his heart. I love my husband. I love him in my heart. I don't know when you pick it, and youth will bloom. It seems that someone came outside the door and opened the door to see Mike (see). Some people laughed at me for being stupid, even though I was cheated by the wind. Watching the Spring Breeze implicitly reflects the complex feelings of young girls, and it is a classic with beautiful lyrics and music.
Nowadays, many people in southern Fujian, even foreigners who come to southern Fujian, can sing "rustic songs" such as "It's getting dark, it's going to rain" and "Only hard work can win". Minnan songs have special charm and charm. "Local songs" bring joy and ideals to the lives of people on both sides of the strait, and bring will and strength to the lives of people on both sides of the strait. In the song "Struggle hard", I sang "I can't help sighing when I lose my ambition, and I can't help but be scared when I am down and out ... Three points are doomed, and seven points can only be won by hard work" and so on. This song inspired many people to go forward bravely, and people were encouraged by this spirit of hard work and pioneering.
In recent years, songs in Minnan language are very popular on both sides of the strait, and classic songs or pop songs such as station, home and roasted meat jiaozi often haunt people's ears. However, some people in Xiamen found that most of these pop songs were written by Taiwan Province Province and sung across the Taiwan Strait. Xiamen, which once had a glorious period in the creation of Minnan songs, seems to have no songs that can be popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in recent years. Xiamen seems to be behind, so we should catch up.