The folk song "Belen and the White Horse" is from the album "Listening to the Xinjiang Xibe Folk Song Collection on the Chinese Music Map"

Belem and White Walking Horse

Folk Music Ethnic Group: Xibe Region: Xinjiang

Folk music Nationality: Xibo Nationality in China Region: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Duo Enbul: Gu Yulin

Duo En Bu Er: Yulin Gu

Track Introduction:

The noisy string music, crisp yet lively, is like the joyful sound of horse hooves, which is a unique plucked instrument of the Xibe ethnic group. Duoenbuer is accompanying the Belen dance. This special shaped musical instrument was created based on the Han Sanxian and Kazakh Aken Dongbula. The Xibe people refer to the traditional folk dance as "Beilen", which originated from the primitive dance of Xibe ancestors in their fishing and hunting life, where they used their bodies to recreate life scenes. Today, with various styles, they dance for their own entertainment or for fun, and are regarded as the "dance of life" by the Xibe people.

Xibo, according to legend, is a people descended from the Xianbei tribe. Over two hundred years ago, in order to protect their homeland, they left the Great Khingan Range, where they had been fishing and hunting for generations, and migrated westward for thousands of miles. They then defended the border for more than a hundred years. Protecting and loving horses is the nature of the Xibe people, so the music of the two horses, "white galloping horse" and "black galloping horse", in the music of the Belen people, correspondingly, the Xibe men imitate the slow steps, small runs, and galloping of horses, and imitate the gait of horses on grasslands, water surfaces, and even ice, which is the walking horse dance in the Belen dance. Compared to the black steed, the feeling presented by the white galloping horse is gentler and whiter, with lively and lively music, like the white horse running leisurely and joyfully, like white clouds falling on a green grassland, rushing past the white sheep, weaving together a pure and gentle white color. Then the rhythm gradually slows down, appearing more agile, as if the white horse is treading on a wrong path, or leisurely walking and drinking water by the river, and then the string music becomes urgent and intense, like a white gust of wind speeding by.