Creative background: From the 4th century to the 6th century, most of northern China was under the rule of Xianbei, Xiongnu and other ethnic minorities, and five regimes, namely Northern Wei, Northern Qi and Northern Friday, were successively established, which was called "Northern Dynasty" in history. Folk songs in the Northern Dynasties are mainly works recorded in Chinese after the Northern Wei Dynasty. According to Hu's comments on "The Hulu Law is Out of the Red Music" in Tong Jian, it can be known that "The Red Music Song" is a folk song of "The Red Music" sung by Hulu Law in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Yuefu Jie says that "its songbook is in Xianbei language, and it is easy to speak with one voice", which means it is a translated work.
The text of Chile Song was first seen in the eighty-sixth volume of Yuefu Poetry compiled by Guo Maoqian in the Song Dynasty. In the history books, the earliest mention of the Chile Song is the History of the North (Volume 6) and Qi Benji written by li yanshou in the early years of the Tang Dynasty: in the fourth year of Wuding in the Eastern Wei Dynasty (546), Gao Huan, a powerful minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, led 100,000 troops south from Jinyang to attack Yubi, a military center in the Western Wei Dynasty (now southwest of Jishan County in southern Shanxi Province). On the way back to Jinyang, the army rumored that an arrow would be sent.
In order to boost the morale of the army, he ordered Hu to sing "Song of Chile", which made the soldiers nostalgic and boosted their morale. "Yuefu Guangti" says: "In the Northern Qi Dynasty, SHEN WOO attacked Zhou Yubi, and his foot soldiers died in the 14th Five-Year Plan. SHEN WOO became angry and became ill. Zhou Wang ordered: "Gao Huan rat who personally committed the crime of Jade Wall shot himself with a crossbow. SHEN WOO heard about it and encouraged him to sit with a group of soldiers. I learned from you that Hu Lvjin sang "Chile" and SHEN WOO made peace with him. "