In September this year, at the opening ceremony of the Third National Ethnic Minority Literature and Art Performance, the Guangxi Napo Farmers Chorus performed the Zhuang song "Folk Song Sings Spring Every Year". The natural and simple singing attracted the attention of the audience. Refreshing. People once again focus on Guangxi original songs.
Guangxi’s original song creation has produced excellent works in every period. As early as the 1930s, a song "The Hongshui River Has Thirty-Three Bays" became the origin of Guangxi's original songs. "The Thirty-Three Bays of the Red Water River" has been sung abroad since the 1930s, and was once sung by a world-famous bass. In the early 1960s, "Liu Sanjie", which stood out in a Guangxi performance, was well-known both at home and abroad. Touching melodies such as "Folk Songs Are Like Spring River Water" accompanied the growth of a generation. The release of "Sanjie Liu" brought Guangxi's original songs to a climax.
Guangxi’s original songs truly entered a glorious era after the reform and opening up. During this period, not only did the number increase dramatically, but the styles were diverse. In the late 1980s, the song "Returning from the Fair, Mile Mile", written by the old poet Gu Di and composed by Huang Youyi, has a strong national style and has had a huge repercussions across the country. It has become a classic among Guangxi folk songs and is still sung today. . Since then, lyricists such as Zeng Xianrui, Huang Shuzi, and Mai Zhansui, and composers such as Su Tie, Fu Qing, and Lin Haidong have emerged. "Cowbells Ringing in the Morning Fog", "Spring Returns to the Earth", "Looking Back", "Lovely Nanning", "Love My China", "Farmers' Song", "March Day in Zhuang Township", "Always Want to Give" You write a letter", "Mountains and Seas Hold Hands", "I Want to Go to Guilin", "Flower Belt", "Please Come to the March Song Festival", "Beibu Gulf Love Song", "Yao Mei's Colorful Dress", A number of touching songs such as "Thumping Miaobu" and "Lao Wang" were released one after another. Among them, "Lao Wang" also won the 6th "Five One Project" Award for Spiritual Civilization Construction of the Central Propaganda Department, and appeared on the stage of the 2004 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. This was also the first time that a Guangxi song appeared in its entirety on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Around the new century, the creative enthusiasm of Guangxi songwriters has been unprecedentedly high, and Guangxi's original songs have entered an era of explosive enthusiasm and popularity. Since 1999, there have been more than a thousand original songs in Guangxi. "March 3rd, September 9th", "Crossing the Mountains with Good Days", "Zhuang Song", "Putting and Swinging", "Yaoshan Green", "Hometown", "Zhuang Sister", "Countryside" Social Opera", "Beautiful and Magical Place", "Folk Song Brings Out the Moon", etc., national songs with different styles and unique charms stand out and win the "Five One Project Award" and "Five One Project Award" of the Central Propaganda Department China Music Golden Bell Award" and a series of national highest awards. At the same time, during this period, Guangxi's song packaging forms were diversified. Through competitions, albums, MTV, etc., the songs were sung in a wider space.
In recent years, there are many high-quality MTVs recorded in Guangxi: "Flying Song of the Earth", "March 3rd, September 9th", "Song and Dance", "Hometown", "Lijiang Love", "Old People" "King", "A Beautiful Brocade", "Mysterious Tiankeng Group", etc. These moving pictures came into the eyes of the people as soon as they were broadcast. Many of the tracks were selected into Song Zuying's personal album and sung by her in some major national evening parties. "Love on the Li River" and "A Beautiful Brocade" have become the first choice songs for some national-level singers to participate in various vocal competitions. "Crossing the Mountains with Good Days" and "Folk Song Bringing Out the Moon" were sung by some well-known domestic singers in different interpretations at various large-scale evening parties across the country. At the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2005, the Guangxi folk song and dance "Folk Songs Sing Spring Every Year" reverberated on the stage like the sounds of nature, leading the national audience into the mysterious black-clad Zhuang. In 2002, the first batch of signed songwriters from Guangxi went to Baise Napo to collect music. The songwriters went deep into the folk, collected a batch of precious original music materials, and created "Carrying Good Days Over the Mountains", "Ni's Yeah Black Robe", "Painting Brother", "Singing Flying Over the Nine Layers" "Heaven" and "The Village is Waiting for You". After the release of Napo Heiyi Zhuang, Guangxi songs such as Pingguo Lingge and Longzhou Tianqin successively became popular across the country, and they all appeared on the big stage of CCTV.
The original and simple style of Guangxi folk songs has brought a breath of fresh air to the Chinese music scene. While Guangxi's national songs are becoming popular in China, they are also favored by more and more people abroad. Heiyi Zhuang, Longzhou Tianqin Group, etc. have performed abroad many times and received rave reviews.