The creative background of cabbage songs in Hebei folk songs

In a poor peasant's home in North China Plain, there was an innocent little girl. Her mother died when she was two or three years old. After following my father at first, although I was poor, I didn't suffer any abuse in the end. Later, my father married his stepmother and gave birth to a younger brother, and his life situation was even more bitter. She can't get the slightest warmth, and she misses her mother more and more in loneliness and sadness.

Accompanied by her, only her own songs and tears. Tears dried up, but the song spread, causing more tears of sympathy for children. These children are also poor at home and have their own difficulties. They pinned their pain on this Chinese cabbage and sang it as their own song with tears in their eyes.

According to their own feelings and understanding, they processed and reformed Chinese cabbage to make it more perfect and universal. In this way, this song has been handed down from generation to generation in North China, and it has spread further and further. This little girl and many children who sang later are the composers of this Chinese Cabbage.

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Song influence

The theme song "The North Wind Blows" of the opera "The White-haired Girl" composed by Kyle and Zhang Lu is based on this song.

Composers Kyle and Qu Xixian adapted this song into an unaccompanied children's chorus, which was also widely sung.

Spread range

"Chinese Cabbage" successfully created a naive and lovely child from a poor family, who was abused and lonely after losing his mother. This phenomenon of social life has aroused widespread sympathy. Therefore, it is widely circulated in Hebei and North China, and it is an excellent traditional nursery rhyme that is almost a household name.