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In 1930, Guo Fushan was born in a poor peasant family in Mengjin, Luoyang, Henan Province. He later joined the Eighth Route Army and became an art soldier. Perhaps he has his own musical talent. Faced with a bunch of unfamiliar instruments, Guo Fushan started learning them from scratch one by one, but he made rapid progress and achieved some success.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guo Fushan changed his career to local areas. He first served as the band conductor of the Henan Provincial Song and Dance Troupe, and then served as the folk art editor of the Henan Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He has never left his favorite literary and artistic work.
One day at the end of 1958, Guo Fushan, who was still serving as a band conductor in the theater, suddenly saw a ballad "Weaving a Flower Basket" in a newspaper. The lyrics are simple and unpretentious, vividly reproducing the joy of a girl from a cotton-picking area planting cotton, weaving flower baskets, picking the cotton when it is ripe, and sending it to Beijing.
Folk songs refer to songs with their own national style and characteristics created by each nation in ancient or modern times. They are traditional songs of the working people of each nation.
The ancestors of every nation have their own songs that have existed since ancient times. Most of these songs do not know who the author is, but are transmitted orally, from one person to another, from one generation to the next. passed on.
Songs that originated or spread among the people of a country or region and became part of their unique culture are a type of folk literature. The poetry creations of working people are generally created orally and spread orally, and are continuously processed by the collective in the process of spreading.
Folk songs are characterized by expressing the thoughts, feelings, will, demands and wishes of the working people. They have strong reality and are an important part of the literature and art of various ethnic groups.
American folk singer WOODY GUTHRIE's records in the 1950s can be said to be the earliest folk song recordings, so they are generally regarded as the ancestors of modern folk songs (FOLK).