What do folk songs in Dongyang, Zhejiang have to have words?
On both sides of Dongyang River, there has always been a place where "you don't need to draw pictures when looking at Yunshan, and you don't need to play spring when listening to birds". In this cultural paradise with a long history and profound tradition, I don't know how many colorful flowers of folk literature and art have sprouted. Let's say Dongyang folk songs, which are numerous, good in quality and widely circulated, can be described as "wonderful flowers bloom brilliantly and ordinary people's homes are fragrant". In the early 1950s, when we went to the countryside to collect folk songs, a folk singer casually listed them with figures in order to show the splendor of Dongyang folk songs: one silk, two girls' lovesickness, Saburo, four seasons tune, five songs, six lovers, seven flowers, eight immortals and nine rings. In the magnificent folk songs, musicians have been discerning and refined. The only special issues published at or above the provincial level are the leek song, Looking forward to the girl, My mother, Impatiens, Pastoral, Visiting the bridal chamber, What to send my little sister, Mother Pig, and Sister-in-law Watching the Lights, among which Pastoral, Visiting the bridal chamber and December have participated in provincial performances. In particular, three songs, namely "Chiffon Song", "Looking forward to Girl" and "My Mom", were rehearsed by the Choir of Zhejiang National Song and Dance Troupe on 1956, and participated in the performance of the first National Music Week. This simple and unique Dongyang folk song originated in Beijing. Among them, leek song was recognized and praised by the chairman of the Chinese Music Association, calling it "quality, sincerity and implication". Wang Xin, dean of Tianjin Conservatory of Music, wrote an article in the magazine, commenting that "the creaking sound is particularly lively and interesting when the second sound is added to the arrangement." Although foreigners can't understand the dialect singing "My Mom", through vivid performances, the audience fully understood the two dramatic plots of my mom's conflict and reconciliation, and applauded.