Historical background of writing Chinese cabbage

"Chinese Cabbage" is a folk song circulating in Hebei and North China. With very economical music materials and refined artistic techniques, the image of a naive rural poor girl was created. It profoundly shows the sadness and pain of a helpless girl who lost her mother and was abused, and it is also an accusation against the unreasonable family relationship in the old society.

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. Who knows all this? Tell who? 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.