What is Liu Tianyi's masterpiece?

Liu Tianyi, a famous performer in Gao Hu, is famous at home and abroad for his Cantonese songs Birds in the Woods and Fish in Spring. Liu Tianyi is also a famous guzheng player. In the early 1950s, when he soloed the famous guzheng repertoire "Rain under the Banana Window" and "Song on the Jam" in Hong Kong, Shao Tiehong, a famous Guangdong musician, accompanied by a flute, recorded and sold well in South America and other places. Busy Textile, written after returning from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, is still included in the key teaching materials of the Conservatory of Music.

"Busy Textile" is the representative work of China national musical instrument player Liu Tianyi, and it is a Guangdong guzheng music style. This is a Cantonese-style piece of music, composed by Gao Hu and Liu Tianyi, a famous guzheng player, at 1955 in 1950s. The music uses the expression of Guangdong music and depicts the picture of peasant women working hard and happily.

Creative background of busy textile

In order to develop the guzheng repertoire and shape the image of laborers with music, Liu Tianyi decided to create a new song, Busy Textile. At the beginning of 1955, he went deep into Henan Textile Factory, Textile Road, Guangzhou to experience life, and took notes on the industrious and selfless labor scenes of textile workers on paper. In order to make textile busy with Guangdong characteristics, he liberated his left hand and played with both hands. At this time, the song "Busy Textile" can creatively imitate the rhythm of the textile machine, and the melody jumps happily, vividly showing the labor scene of textile women workers and their inner joy.

After Busy Textile was written, one night, he auditioned on the balcony of his apartment. When the bright and clear music video "Like pearls pouring into a plate of jade" was played, it attracted workers and intimate friends who lived near Fenghuanggang to listen. He went out of the room and asked the audience for advice. Later, he returned to Henan Textile Factory to play the newly created Busy Textile for the workers. A young textile worker said with a smile, "Your guzheng strings are very similar to our spinning machine, and the pop-up rhythm is like our machine ringing regularly. But the difference is that our textile machine makes deafening noise, and we have to wear earplugs when we work. When you play Textile Busy, we all have to take off our earplugs and enjoy the wonderful music of the guzheng. "