Personal Information of Zhang Li, Queen of Mountain Song

On the night of November 29, 1976, Zhang Li was born into a poor peasant family in Xinjie Village, Dongping Township, Qiaojia County. Her father, Zhang Tingcai, was a retired soldier, multi-talented, 72 years old, and every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, he still has to climb to the big mountains and sing mountain songs with people like young and strong. Mother Yao Kuanfen is a illiterate rural woman, born with a good voice, in the hearts of the villagers, she is a "king of song", can improvise mountain songs, singing mountain songs.

Zhang Li is smart, lively and cheerful, began studying at the age of 5, not only learning, music is more outstanding, from elementary school to junior high school have been elected as a member of the study committee or music committee. Because of his family's poverty, Zhang Li dropped out of high school on his way to work, and went alone to Chengdu, where he began to embark on a long road of work.

In 2001, Zhang Li participated in the "Yangzonghai Fifth Folk Song Festival", and she won the title of "Queen of Songs". A "singing" fame, Yunnan Province, mountain song industry and some audio-visual companies have come to find her to sing, when the actor, several audio-visual companies also hired her as a signed singer.

From 2001 to the present, she has participated in many competitions and won awards, and the songs she created have been welcomed by a wide range of grass-roots people, and now she has published more than 300 mountain songs, which are known as the "Queen of Mountain Songs" in Yunnan Province.

Extended information:

Shan Songs refer to the songs that people sing in the field when they are laboring or expressing their emotions. It has a wide range of contents, a short structure, a bright tune, a simple emotion, a high pitch, and a free rhythm.

Songs are mainly concentrated in the plateau, the interior, mountain villages, fishing villages and ethnic minority areas. They are widely circulated and rich in flavor. Mountain song is one of the basic genres of Chinese folk songs. It refers to the folk songs with free rhythm and long melody which are circulated in the highland, mountainous and hilly areas, and sung by people on the road, chopping wood, herding animals, cutting grass, or at folk songs for self-indulgence. In recent years, some musicians and scholars believe that the prairie herdsmen sang pastoral songs, hymns, feast songs, rivers, lakes and seas on the fishermen sang fishing songs, boat songs, some places in the south of the wedding ceremony sung on the "wedding song", should also be attributed to the mountain song.

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