Wentu/Ying Zhigang

Jiangnan, with outstanding people, has given birth to a variety of folk songs and proverbs. They are not only gentle as Wu Nong's soft words, but also a repository of life experience, a barometer of history and society, and a crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation.

The Jiangnan area has various terrains such as plains, hills, and basins. What suits them are diverse production and life styles. It is rich in rice and tea, the fishery is prosperous, and the commodity economy is developed.

Such natural and economic characteristics have derived rich folk customs, religious beliefs, culture and art, providing rich materials for the creation of rumors and proverbs.

The Taihu folk song of Wu is the same line of this proverb.

In the early years, in Wangting in Xiangcheng District, Suzhou, people would sing folk songs to express their understanding of life and express their emotions when working.

The history of Taihu folk songs can be traced back to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The "Jin Shu Yue Zhi" of Yuefu of the Southern Dynasties records: "Wu's sound is mixed and composed, and it is published in Jiangnan."

"Shuidong Diary" written by Ye Sheng, a native of Wu in the Ming Dynasty, also records that "the people of Wu sang their own praises for their hard work in farming or boat travel."

This not only shows that Taihu folk songs have a long history, but also reflects the strong regional cultural characteristics.

Taihu folk songs are rooted in the rice farming culture in the south of the Yangtze River and are closely related to the daily life of ordinary people.

In the book "Wangting in Daoxiang Ancient Town", in the list of Taihu folk songs collected by the editor, there is a song "To sow rice, we must sing rice songs":

To cultivate rice, we must sing the rice song,

My waist is bent and dragged in the mud.

Today, sweat drips into the ground,

After autumn, rice is piled up in the warehouse.

The image vividly depicts the scene of farmers working in the rice fields. The second sentence,"Two waists are bent and dragged in the mud", vividly reflects the hardships and difficulties of rice farming.

Taihu folk songs are a direct expression of people's inner emotions and a variety of reflections of social life.

The old people recalled that when they used to work in the fields, especially during the busy season, there were songs all around them. In addition to "Rice Crowd Song", there were also songs such as "The Folk Song in the Field","The Folk Song of Hoeing the Grass","The Song of Transplanting Rice", etc.

You need to sing when working in the fields, and you also need to sing when doing all kinds of businesses. Those who make bamboo strips sing the "Song of Tasting", women who weave the "Song of Weaving", and men who fish also have the "Folk Song of Fishing."

The singing is accompanied by the rhythm of labor, and the tone is euphemistic and tortuous. While singing, it seems that the fatigue of one's body is eliminated in the singing.

Singing folk songs is not only a true portrayal of life, but also an important part of people's emotional exchanges and leisure entertainment. I think this is the reason why Taihu folk songs have been passed down to this day and are widely sung.

Taihu folk songs contain the life wisdom of people in the area around Taihu Lake and cover all aspects of life. They are sung even when they are happy and sad, happy and funerals.

In the past, a man and a woman met each other, and they would sing folk songs to express their feelings.

For example,"Little Sister Pushing the Window and Looking at the Stars" sings:

The little sister pushed the window and looked at the stars, and her mother immediately said that I had an affair.

Why does Muma know? Is Muma also someone who has been through it!

Fully depict the image of a young girl who has just begun to fall in love and has a fierce personality.

It is said that the moon is the bright color of their hometown, and some people say that "love songs are better when old." People in Wu who were born and raised here, Taihu folk songs are the love songs of their hometown that they never get tired of listening to.

When the nostalgia rooted in the bottom of my heart brings tears to your eyes at a certain time, it must be in the rippling folk songs, like opening a jar of old wine, in Wuyin, which has traveled through thousands of years, in the soft wind of North Taihu Lake, Welcome the spring that has not been seen for a long time.