The main content of the article "Love Songs of the Yellow Land" is about Shi Tiesheng's thoughts and feelings about love and love songs, as well as his unforgettable emotions about his years as an educated youth.
Shi Tiesheng went to Qingpingwan, Yan'an, Shaanxi Province to work in the countryside in 1969. In 1972, he returned to Beijing because of a disability in his legs. The three years of being an educated youth were three years that Shi Tiesheng would never forget, and the love songs on the loess soil accompanied him through those difficult years.
People on the yellow earth sing almost with their mouths open. Brothers and sisters are in love, frank, fiery, bright, and so bold that they, the educated youth, blush when they hear it.
But love is human instinct, and expressing love is human nature. This is nature and cannot be disobeyed.
Any behavior that interferes with the love of others with your own ideas is just a countercurrent. This is the last sentence written by Shi Tiesheng in the article "Love Song of the Yellow Earth". Because people's yearning for beautiful love is innate, irresistible, and indelible.
This is just like when we were in middle school, the dean gave repeated orders not to allow the students to fall in love early, and the parents repeatedly warned them not to get too close to students of the opposite sex, but how could we listen? At the age of seventeen or eighteen, spending the same time, emotions are as blazing as the sun. The more deliberately suppressed, the faster the rebound.
So when the young man in his twenties who came to his home as a guest told about his parents who went to the countryside as educated youths, got married a year later, and gave birth to him a year later, Shi Tiesheng was Shocked, surprised, and sighing. You must know that when it came to love, it was an era when political consciousness was backward and revolutionary will was depressed. Love and revolution were almost incompatible.
But young people around the age of 20 are the age when they yearn for love. It is okay for them not to fall in love, but it is absolutely impossible for them not to think about it.
Therefore, when Shi Tiesheng and his party went to the countryside to jump in line, they even talked loudly on the train about how to be self-disciplined and introspective, not to smoke or fall in love, and even declared that they would never do such vulgar things as falling in love or getting married. , but when we really got there, under the hard days and the long-lasting boredom, we gradually began to yearn for love.
At first, in order to satisfy their thirst for conversation, the male educated youths just smoked two cigarettes secretly while avoiding the girls; later, someone didn’t know who got the idea and started singing what was called at the time A love song for "Yellow Song". At first, they sang "Evening in the Suburbs of Moscow" with subtle emotional expression, and later they sang "Kasha Qiu" with bright emotions. The song ended, but the meaning was still unfinished. I sang again, but I was afraid of meeting the girls in front of me.
Human emotions are always subtle and changeable. Since you have sworn not to fall in love or get married, why should you deliberately avoid those girls when you smoke? Why are you afraid of being heard by girls when you secretly sing love songs, but you also want them to hear you? Not only do you want them to hear it, but you also want them to listen to it?
Because love is the mainstream. Since it is mainstream, it is bound to be unstoppable.
The theme of love has always been a major theme in literary creation, not only because people have emancipated their minds and dared to openly declare love, but also because love can give people hope.
Everything that can bring people hope will eventually become mainstream. Love is like this, and so are the poems and songs that praise love. Human beings are naturally yearning for love, but it is not like any other thing. It can be seen and touched when it is there. It needs to be spoken out from time to time so that people can understand: Oh, so it is there!
Since ancient times, people have expressed love in different ways. The ancients recited poems and composed poems to express feelings; modern people are full of tricks and are straightforward and generous. So in an era when people's minds are emancipated and folk customs are about to develop, how do working people express their love?
They can’t write poems, they can’t compose poems, and they don’t know what romantic feelings are. They only know how to face the loess and turn their backs to the sky. Fortunately, culture is fluid, developing, and relevant to people's hearts. When folk art meets working life, working people have spiritual comfort and sustenance - singing folk songs.
Just as poetry is the crystallization of the wisdom of working people, singing is also a way of expressing love that has been passed down from generation to generation. Especially folk songs. Especially the folk songs of northern Shaanxi. People use loud voices and simple words to sing bright and passionate love songs.
Shi Tiesheng wrote in the article: "All human singing probably has this origin. In other words, all art has this origin. A hard life needs hope, and a vivid life needs love. There are countless "There are clear days and endless worries that need to be told." Therefore, folk songs have become the best way for working people to express their feelings to each other during work and after leisure.
The days of going to the countryside to farm are hard, tiring and without solace. Therefore, when the simple and warm folk songs of northern Shaanxi come to me, they may be loud, high-pitched, sad or low. Hui's singing voice and straightforward lyrics became Shi Tiesheng's most profound memory during that unforgettable time.
Unlike the educated youth who shyly sang "100 Foreign Songs" with their youthful throbbing and desire to speak, the fellow villagers sang candidly and sincerely. When you are in the mountains, you are tired, tired and tormented, but you can sing at the top of your lungs.
The singing is cheerful and loud, the drawl is mournful and low, the shouting is high and loud, and coupled with the straightforward and bright words, the listeners are frightened, excited, and intoxicated.
It has the potential to merge singing and soul with heaven and earth.
This is probably the charm of folk songs, which originate from the heart and move people. It can exist in harmony with heaven and earth, and it can sing out the turbulent emotions and desires of the human heart. So real, so frank, so ordinary. Shi Tiesheng said: "The reason why they have not been blown away by the wind is because generations of people can hear their own hearts and even their own lives from them."
We often say that music does not distinguish between regions and national boundaries. , No matter the time or place, as long as the song flows from the heart, it will definitely flow into the heart again. It's just that times are changing, the world is changing, and people's aesthetics are also changing with each passing day. They all have different opinions on whether singing is sincere or not, and whether it is free or not.
But singing is always a way to express one's heart. How to sing, what to sing, no matter what era, no matter how many generation gaps there are, it all depends on what the singer likes. After all, any behavior that interferes with other people's preferences with one's own ideas is just a countercurrent.