Lyrics of "Walking West"

Album: Northern Shaanxi Folk Songs

Singing: Wang Erni

Brother, you go to the west.

Little sister, I really can't stay

When you mention your brother, you go west.

Hey, little sister, tears often flow.

Sent it out at the gate.

Little sister, I won't lose my hand.

This confidence has two words.

Hey, man, remember.

Walk. You take the road.

Never take the path.

There are many people on the road.

Pour out one's worries

Brother, you go to the west.

Little sister, I really can't stay

You have to go west when you mention your brother.

Little sister, I often cry.

Sent it out at the gate.

Little sister, I won't lose my hand.

This confidence has two words.

Hey, man, remember.

Brother, you go to the west.

Never make friends.

I made many friends.

Worried that you forgot the slaves.

Brother, you go to the west.

Little sister, I really can't stay

You have to go west when you mention your brother.

Little sister, I often cry.

Sent it out at the gate.

Little sister, I won't lose my hand.

This confidence has two words.

Hey, man, remember.

Walk. You take the road.

Never take the path.

There are many people on the road.

Pour out one's worries

Pour out one's worries

First, the song introduction

Walking west is a local folk song in Shanxi. It is said that it has been circulating for one or two hundred years. This song can be sung not only by Shanxi people, but also by many people in neighboring Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi and even Ningxia, Qinghai and Gansu. In 1970s, Zhu Fengbo, a famous singer, rearranged this song and sang it all over the north and south, which made this song look brand new, but kept the flavor of the original song.

During the Qianlong period, the population reached 300 million, and the contradiction between man and land was sharp. A large number of poor people in the mainland were forced to migrate spontaneously in order to make a living. Since the Qing Dynasty, thousands of people from Shaanxi and Shanxi have flocked to Cheng Guihua, Tumote, Chahar and Erdos to make a living. It is in this historical background that the folk song "Walking to the West" in northern Shaanxi was born.

"Westward migration" has greatly changed the social structure, economic structure and lifestyle of Inner Mongolia. At the same time, Jin culture was brought into the central and western Inner Mongolia through population migration, and it merged with local nomadic culture, forming a vibrant multi-culture and enriching Chinese culture.

Second, the singer profile

Wang Erni, a young national singer, a national first-class actor in Peking Opera Theatre, a director of the China Musicians Association, a director of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Volunteers Association, a member of the Shaanxi Provincial Political Consultative Conference, a representative of the 10th National Cultural Congress, and a leader of folk songs in northern Shaanxi, is known as the "lark on the Yellow Land" and a leader in the field of folk music in China. She touched the hearts of hundreds of millions of viewers with her sweet and crisp singing and simple image of a girl in northern Shaanxi. Through unremitting efforts, she won numerous trophies and honorary titles, which not only established her position in the field of folk songs in northern Shaanxi, but also gradually completed her transformation as a young singer.

Representative works include Love for Northern Shaanxi, I am a Westerner, Harvest China, Brilliant Lights, Flowers in Shandandan and so on.