What is the background music of the Spring Festival?

It should be the Spring Festival Suite

The Spring Festival Overture focuses on the bustle of the Chinese New Year, and is often played in the first movement of the Suite, the Spring Festival Overture.

The Spring Festival Suite was composed by Li Huanzhi in 1955-1956, and is based on the tones and rhythms of the folk rice-planting songs of northern Shaanxi, with a bright melody that vividly expresses the hustle and bustle of the traditional festivals of the people of China, their joyfulness, the beating of gongs and drums, and the songs and dances that accompany them.

The first movement, "Spring Festival Overture", describes the scene of people twisting rice-planting songs in the Spring Festival, with the addition of the gong and drum rhythms of the rice-planting songs, and the theme consists of two Shaanbeier folk suona tunes, which are joyful and enthusiastic. The middle section is a lilting northern Shaanxi folk song, whose theme is first played by the oboe, then repeated by the cello, and finally by the trumpet solo to push the music to a climactic end.

"Spring Festival Overture" is an orchestral piece written according to the structure of "Yangge", a Chinese folk song. Yangge" is a representative form of folk song and dance in the northern region of China. Dancers usually dress up as various characters and dance with props such as fans, handkerchiefs and colored silks. The performance form is divided into three parts: crossing the street, big field and small field. Crossing the street is the rice-planting team marching in the street, according to the rhythm of the music performed by some simple dance movements. The big field is a large-scale collective dance with warm and red color, often coming out of various complicated formations. The small field is a small dance with a simple plot performed by two or three people, or a small opera with songs and dances. The "Yangge" begins and ends with a big scene, interspersed with small scenes. The introduction to the Spring Festival Overture is the equivalent of a street scene. The first part is a passionate Allegro, depicting the songs and dances of the big scene. The middle part is a lyrical middle panel, depicting the dance performances in the small field. Then it returns to the music of the first part, depicting the rice-planting songs closing with the big field. The final coda repeats the second half of the introduction.

The Spring Festival Suite consists of four movements,

The first movement, Overture, describes the scene of people twisting rice-planting songs during the Spring Festival, with the addition of the gongs and drums rhythm of the rice-planting songs, and the theme is composed of two folk suona pieces from the northern part of the Shaanxi province, which is a joyful and enthusiastic piece of music. The middle section is a lilting Shaanxi folk song, the theme of which is first played by the oboe, then repeated by the cello, and finally by the trumpet solo to push the music to a climax.

The second movement, "Love Song", is a lyrical poem that begins with a love song played by the English winds, like a young man taking a walk by a moonlit river. This love song is repeated six times, played by the violin and cello in the form of a dialog, and finally returns to the beginning of the introduction.

The third movement, "Pan Song", is a round dance, based on the weekend dances in Yan'an in those days, and combining folk music with modern ballroom dancing.

The fourth movement, "Lamp Festival", is composed in the key of the northern Shaanxi folk suona song "Da Pendulum Team", which demonstrates the high skill of suona playing. In the middle section, the tunes of the northern Shaanxi folk songs "Pumpkin Picking" and "Running the Dry Boat" are used, and the two tunes are interspersed.

The ending section ends the piece with a warm rice-planting gongs and drums rhythm reproducing the theme.

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