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Original songs of Dragon Boat Tune

Original singer: Wang Jieshi, Xie Lisi. Dragon Boat Tune, also known as "planting melon tune", is a Tujia etiquette song, a Hubei folk song with strong artistic appeal, and a popular duet song in Tujia areas in western Hubei. Its lyrics are popular and refined, and with simple phrases, it successfully creates vivid and vivid pictures. Musically, it still retains the traditional musical characteristics of Tujia folk songs in western Hubei. Although its melody style is difficult to express its grandeur, it can just show the secular customs of landscape flowers and birds. Dragon Boat Song is considered to be one of the most beautiful folk songs in the world. "Dragon Boat Tune" is divided into positive and negative songs. The positive song is the song of production, while the negative song is the song of life, which combines the industrious, simple, strong and unyielding national character of Tujia people. The song depicts the story of a lively and beautiful girl who needs to cross the river to visit relatives and ask the ferryman to ferry across the river.