The History of Flowers in Gansu

Early research on the "flower children" began during the "May Fourth" New Culture Movement. On December 17, 1922, the "Ballad Weekly" sponsored by the Ballad Research Society of Peking University was founded, and it published 30 lyrics of "flower children" on March 15 (No. 82), 1925, when Yuan Fuli, a famous geologist in China, was doing a geological survey. On March 15, 1925 (No. 82), the magazine published the lyrics of 30 "flower children" recorded and organized by Yuan Fuli, a famous geologist of China, when he was doing a geological survey in Gansu, and the title of the publication was "Gansu's Ballad - "Flower Children". The title is "The Ballad of Gansu - "Flower Children"". This was the first time that "flower children" appeared in national literature.

Famous musician Wang Yunjie's "Shandan Flower", recorded and published in 1943, was China's first "Flower Child" score. Wang Yunjian was a composer at the Chongqing Qingmuguan Conservatory of Music, China's highest music school at the time, and when he was teaching and conducting a music excursion in the eastern agricultural region of Qinghai, he found the Salar "flower child" singer Hatuma, recorded the tune of "Shandan Flower", and composed and published it as a piece of music. In his editorial "Qinghai Republic Daily" "music" music supplement, to avoid the "Poetry" as only remember the words do not remember the song, the descendants are difficult to sing the regret.

Published as a monograph on the study of "flowers" is Yuzhong Zhang Yaxiong published in Chongqing in 1942, "flower collection". Zhang Yaxiong use in Lanzhou as "Gansu Republic of China Daily" editor, open collection of circulating in Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia "flowers", and published in the newspaper lyrics and research articles, in nearly 10 years, Zhang Yaxiong collected more than 3,000 "flowers", selected more than 600 songs to organize. Zhang Yaxiong selected more than 600 songs to organize, of which 12 "anti-Japanese youth", in the form of folk songs to inspire the people to resist the war to the end, in the community has had a great impact. Qiao Jianzhong, former director of the Music Research Institute of the China Academy of Art, wrote an article in the third issue of Music Research in 2004, praising it as "the first rich and in-depth book on the study of 'Hua'er', which would later become an 'eminent study' in the fields of folklore and musicology. It is the first book with rich content and depth, and the first monument of modern flower child research.

Zhang Yaxiong lived in Xining from 1944 to 1947.

In 1944 to 1947, Zhang Yaxiong lived in Xining, where he spent his free time running around in the fields and along the riverbanks and mountains, recording some of the beautiful "flowers".

In the fall of 1948, when the "Collection of Flowers" was reprinted in Lanzhou, a lot of new content was added.

In 1950, Zhang Yaxiong was ready to publish the "Collection of Flowers" for the third time, but he failed to do so because of the unfair historical treatment he suffered. In the Cultural Revolution, although he made his living by picking rags, he still insisted on the study of "Flowers", which is: "Flowers are the words of the heart, and it is not up to us to sing them, and we can't bring our heads to the knife to cut them off, and we can't die without singing them."

In 1981, at the second Gansu Provincial Literature Congress, Pingliang peasant writers, "flower child fan" Dai Gasa people will be a 1948 edition of the "flower child collection" to Zhang Yaxiong. 1986, the 76-year-old Zhang Yaxiong saw the China Federation of Literature and Culture Publishing Company reprinted the "flower child collection".

In 1990, Professor Jiang Dingxian, a famous musician, went to Gansu as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and after returning to Beijing, he wrote the piano suite Gansu Journey (for teenagers): 1. Corridor; 2. Flowers; 3. Yang Guan, which is expressed from three angles of comparison of geography, style and history, and the "Flowers" are moved from the old work, which is very characteristic. The "Flowers" were transferred from an old work, and are extremely distinctive. It was included in the collection of Jiang Dingxian's works published by the Central Conservatory of Music in 1992.