Ten classic Xinjiang songs include: "The Girl from Dabancheng", "Lift Your Hijab", "Please Try a Hami Melon", "Karamay", "Everywhere in the Frontier", "Red" "Snow Lotus", "Green Field", "Visitors from the Iceberg", "Why Are the Flowers So Red", "Turpan's Grapes Are Ripe".
1. "The Girl from Dabancheng"
"The girl from Dabancheng has long braids and really beautiful eyes..." When it comes to Xinjiang folk songs, Wang Luobin is an unavoidable name. . The song "The Girl from Dabancheng" has been sung by the people for a long time. Wherever there are Chinese people in the world, there is "The Girl from Dabancheng". It has also made the Dabancheng District of Urumqi famous overseas, and it is still popular among foreign tourists coming to Xinjiang. A place that is dear to my heart.
2. "Lift Your Hijab"
"Our motherland is a garden. The flowers in the garden are so bright, the warm sunshine shines on us, and everyone has a smile on their face. "Open face..." This Xinjiang children's song "Wahaha" adapted from a Uyghur folk song and composed by Shi Fu has left happy childhood memories for countless people. The song is still used as a group performance in kindergartens and primary schools.
3. "Please try a piece of cantaloupe"
Musicians also created a large number of folk songs praising and promoting Xinjiang. Romantic singers wrote their love for Xinjiang into In the song. These songs were disseminated through radio, television and music tapes, singing Xinjiang's beautiful scenery, rich products, and enthusiastic people into the distance.
4. "Karamay"
In the 1960s, the reclamation soldiers of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps fought selflessly day and night on the front line of reclamation and border guarding. In order to boost morale, "Everywhere on the Border" "Sai Jiangnan" came into being. This song quickly spread throughout the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and inside and outside the Great Wall, becoming the most powerful propaganda and mobilization order at that time calling on young men and women from all over the world to support the border.
5. "Everywhere in the Frontier: Jiangnan"
The lyricist Yuan Ying said in a letter sent to "Xinjiang Daily" in 2005: "Until now, every time I hear " The song "Everywhere on the Border is like Jiangnan" makes me feel excited, thinking of the land of Xinjiang that left a deep impression on me: This is not the desolate Gobi, but it is clearly the beautiful Jiangnan!"
6. "Red Snow Lotus"
In 1997, people heard this song on the radio: "I walked past you and saw your tears, and a deep tenderness surged in my heart... ..." This song "Red Snow Lotus" composed by Xinjiang musician Hong Qi quickly topped the country's major music charts and became the nightly accompaniment of infatuated men and women.
7. "Green Wilderness"
In 1959, the Bayi Film Studio produced a large-scale color documentary film "Green Wilderness" that reflected the military reclamation warriors' construction and defense of the frontier. Tian Ge, then a creative member of the Xinjiang Military Region Art Troupe, composed the interlude "Night on the Prairie" for the film. With the release of the film, "Night on the Prairie" became famous both at home and abroad, and was even selected as a teaching material by UNESCO, calling it an "Oriental Serenade" .
8. "Visitors from the Iceberg"
In 1963, the movie "Visitors from the Iceberg" became a "phenomenal blockbuster" at the time. This classic has been adapted many times into TV dramas, musicals, dance dramas, and operas are completely different in terms of cast and crew, script themes, and shooting techniques, but these classic episodes still allow three generations of singers, old, middle, and young, to sing to this day.
9. "Why Are the Flowers So Red"
Xinjiang, with the help of these excellent film and television dramas, has gradually entered the attention of people of all ethnic groups across the country and become classics of the times and popular for generations. memories.
10. "The Grapes Are Ripe in Turpan"
Praises the faith and determination of the border guards who are not afraid of sacrifice and are willing to contribute. The prototype is the first-generation station-building officers and soldiers of the Alamali Border Defense Company of the Ili Military Division of the Xinjiang Military Region. It was created in 1962 by Li Zhijin, who was then the Propaganda Officer of the Ili Military Division. It was later staged by the Xinjiang Military Region Art Performance and the entire military art performance, and has been sung throughout the country to this day.
Introduction to Xinjiang
The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, referred to as "Xin", with its capital Urumqi, is located in northwest China and is one of China's five ethnic minority autonomous regions. With an area of ??1.6649 million square kilometers, it is the largest provincial administrative region in China by land area, accounting for approximately one-sixth of China's total land area. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the permanent population of the autonomous region in 2021 is 25.89 million.