On the eighteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, sorghum is carried on auspicious days.

The eighteenth day of the first month, the auspicious day of the ecliptic and sorghum, is the lyrics of the song Xi.

First, the song introduction

The first lyric of the song is "the 18th day of the first month is auspicious". In fact, the eighteenth day of the first month is unlucky and not suitable for living people to get married, but the first month is suitable for yin marriage. Secondly, "Sorghum carries, carries red clothes and hates one foot" to ward off evil spirits. Then I sang "castanet rosewood, light and hard to guess." There seems to be something hidden in this marriage. "Wild cats chased several streets and their necks were crooked in the trees", taking care of "castanet rosewood" and telling us that the unusual thing about this marriage is to carry coffins to get married.

"Xi" is the latest single of Netease Cloud Music Special Project "Star Collection", composed by Ge. It's about a woman's marriage. Sadness and joy are mixed. The popular genre collides with the realistic expression in the lyrics, combining folk music such as suona, erhu and pipa, supplemented by Shanghai dialect, opera cavity and monologue. Ge Dongqi broke the usual genre mode, and the elements were changeable, which brought a refreshing feeling to the audience.

Second, the creative background

The song expresses a "happy event" in a realistic way, without feelings or emotions, but only from an objective and concrete perspective. The "official", "bride" and "king" in the song are like the contradictory fusion of various elements in the genre, and they are also a story full of contradictions.

The song Xi tells the story of a woman getting married, but the wedding is not as happy as expected, but full of sadness. In fact, this is a "ghost wedding" where the groom marries the ghost bride and the bride has been killed by the king. But the affectionate man didn't forget his promise with the woman, so he decided to hold a ghost wedding. The whole lyrics of Xi were written on the ghost wedding day.