Where is the folk song "Flowers and Teenagers"?

Flower and Youth is a folk song from the Northwest China, mainly in Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang.

"Flowers and Youth" depicts the beauty of spring on the Qinghai Plateau and the spring-like love of young people. Flower-like girls, dancing lightly and singing songs of welcome to spring, come to the picturesque mountains and fields, and their songs attract the handsome young men.

"Flowers" is a kind of folk song originated in Qinghai, widely spread in China's northwest Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Xinjiang four provinces (regions), its melodious and melodious, simple and fresh lyrics, the song expresses the freedom and honesty, there is a "soul of the northwest". It is known as "the soul of Northwest China". It has long been favored by musicians as a folk music with northwest characteristics that has been widely circulated in the region.

Background of "Flowers and Children"

Toward the end of 1956, in order to prepare for the National Professional Music and Dance Performance, the Shaanxi Song and Dance Troupe prepared to choreograph a lyrical song and dance. After discussion, the staff of the troupe thought that the "flower children" popular in the northwest region was the most representative, so they found Zhu Zhonglu, who was working in the troupe at that time.

At that time, Mr. Zhu Zhonglu provided the Shaanxi Song and Dance Troupe with the folk tunes "Blue Bridge Meeting," "Song of Four Seasons," "Five Drums," and some other "Flowers" tunes that had been handed down in Qinghai. These ditties and tunes became the material for the lyrical song and dance "Flowers and Children". He also will be handed down in the Huangshi region social fire in the dance movement performance to see, and determine the lyrical song and dance "flowers and young people" dance movements, costumes and props.