Folk music "Back salt Tune" from the album "Chinese Music Map to hear Yunnan Bai Folk song Music Collection"

Salt Carrying Tune

Folk music Nationality: Bai Nationality Region: Yunnan

Big Three Strings: Duan Yincong

The back salt tune of the Bai nationality is played by the big three strings, which are usually accompanied by three strings and bamboo flute. The three strings are divided into two kinds: big three strings and small three strings. The three strings can have a total length of about 1.5 meters, often made of Chinese toon wood or water wax gourd wood, its shape includes sound box, rod, shaft, head, string, sound box covered with sheep skin, piano horse at the lower end of the string at several movable iron buckle, with a wooden plectrum plucked up, its sound is smooth.

The Bai people have rich folk songs, which cover all aspects of their life. For example, this Baiyan tune is the folk song tune sung by the Bai people at that time. Back salt is a very hard industry, before liberation, back salt people carrying bags of almost their physical limit of heavy weight salt, walking in the rugged salt horse road, climbing the slope, wind and sleep, a back and forth is half a month, the strength of a small step a rest, the burden of life is carried on the shoulder, they sing, relieve the road of bitterness, the song has light, they sing, back salt is very bitter, But can support the family, and then bitter also want to go, back salt is very tired, but back salt on the road, there are beloved people meet. They sing also look forward to, on the way to help each other, after hard work for money, before they can have a moment of leisure. No matter how difficult the life is, it is also because of this inextinguishing heart fire, this beautiful and firm will to life, and there is a breathing on the way of bearing the load, and the strength to continue to move forward, just like a tree forever rooted down and growing to the light.