Where does the Shanxi folk song "Going West" tell the story?

Walking to the West is a Shanxi local folk song. It is said to have been circulating for one or two hundred years. This song is not only sung by people in Shanxi, but also by many people in Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, and even farther away in Ningxia, Qinghai, and Gansu. There is an old Chinese saying that "ten miles have different sounds", which means that folk songs have strong regional characteristics. The reason why people in many places in the northwest will sing "Going West" is probably because many people from Shanxi had been to these places at that time, and some of them have been singing this song for a long time, and the locals have also learned it. The song Walking West Crossing in the 70s by the famous singer Zhu Fengbo re-adaptation of the creation of singing the north and south of the Yangtze River, so that the song renewed the new posture, but kept the flavor of the original song.

Fugu County hemp town, is one of the oldest towns in Fugu, the people around the Shenfu area through the Huangfu River, the people of northwestern Jin from Shanxi Hequ County Xikou Ferry across the Yellow River into Shaanxi, the routes intersect here. The Ming Great Wall passes through here, and a lone beacon tower is displayed around the town of Ma.

Liu Jiaping village in Mazhen, the village looks unusually cold and quiet, with few people visible on the road. Xiao life of the family of five was in 2001 to go, listening to the village people said went to Ordos Dongsheng. Home windowpaper has been torn by the wind, a broken motorized tricycle quietly rely on the corner of the wall, the door is still left on the master's good wishes: "door to the green mountains thousands of miles of show/home blessed with four times spring". Just this yellow land is not the blessed land in his dream. Liu Jiaping village has a group, the group leader called Fu Er, 48 years old, in the village is still a young man. 6 years ago, Liu Jiaping is the rich village in this area, the village has more than 800 people. Since 1998, there has been a drought here, young people have gone out to work, and some even moved their families, the village is left with more than 400 people, mostly old and weak women and children. When someone passes away in the village, the eight strong men who carry the coffin cannot be found. This ratio is relatively small in this area, further up the hill, a dozen small village, gone only three or four families left is also very common.

Over the hemp town northbound 50 miles, is the ancient city of Fugu County, which is adjacent to the Junggar Banner in Inner Mongolia, is to go west of the mouth of the people to look back at the place. Roadside there is a temple, the town people can not say how long it has been built, through this temple, go west of the people even if they really left home. According to fugu county history office director wang fengqi introduction: fugu agriculture is no guarantee of agriculture, rely on the sky to eat, almost no drought resistance. And the reason why the local people go west of the mouth, is to go north of the Great Wall to open up the land, find a rice bowl. Shenfu area is mainly concentrated in Inner Mongolia's river-loop area, where the land is fertile, relatively sparsely populated, like Ordos, Inner Mongolia, two-thirds of the people are walking from here.