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Legend has it that the original song of "Song of the Mountain Eagle" is an Indian folk song with an anti-colonial theme, composed in memory of the Peruvian freedom fighter Túpac Amaro. According to legend, Túpac Amaro died in the uprising against the Spanish invaders in 1780. He turned into an eagle and flew over the Andes to protect the people of his hometown. Peruvian composer and folklorist Daniel Alomía Robles was quite moved and adapted this folk song, which eventually left a classic handed down and inspired countless people around the world to wake up from the pain of colonization.

Peru is located in the west of South America, on the side of the Amazon rainforest, and the Andes Mountains run through the north and south. The aborigines have lived here for generations, giving birth to a unique and splendid civilization. On November 2, 2021, on the 200th anniversary of Peru's independence and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Peru, we express our blessings with music:

This song is melodious and beautiful, and is deeply loved by people from all over the world. We retain its spirit, and instruments of different bloodlines meet here - Kahun drums and rain sticks from Latin America; shaman drums from North Asia; bansuri flutes from South Asia; xun and guqin from China , Zhongruan, clever fusion. The mountain winds whizzed past, the moisture of the rain forest dissipated under the scorching sun, the mountain eagles fluttered and hovered in the valleys of the Andes, and our hearts seemed to have wings, soaring with the melody in the boundless mountains...

Coincidentally, in 1977, NASA launched the "Voyager" probe into outer space, carrying a permanent gold record representing human civilization, including 27 famous songs from various countries, including the Peruvian folk song "Song of the Mountain Eagle". "The original song "I am a pigeon leaving the nest" and the Chinese Guqin song "Flowing Water". Ancestors may not have thought that the melody they sing will be immortalized in the singing of later generations and in the vast universe, and will be remembered forever by future generations.

*Cajón (Cajón), also known as wooden box drums and drum boxes, can be described as turbulent in the process of spreading. It originated in central and western Africa, was brought to the United States by black slaves, and became popular in South America in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2001, the Cajon drum was included in the National Cultural Heritage of Peru; the rain stick, also known as the rain stick, makes sounds similar to rain and running water when it is rotated and shaken. In ancient arid areas, it was a rain-praying device in traditional ceremonies, and it is still mysterious that the residents of South America still use it to pray for rain.

Original Song: El Cóndor Pasa (aka Song of the Eagle, Song of the Mountain Eagle)

Art Director: Tang Bin

Composer: Daniel Alomia Robles

Arrangement/Arrangement: Sun Binbin Arranger Assistant: Jiang Yiguo

Performer: Zide Qin Club (Guqin: Bai Wuxia, Zhongruan: Yu Jie, Xun/Bansuli: Gao Ya, Box Drum/Rain Stick: Chen Xi, Shaman Drum/Xiao Da: Gu Junjie)

Makeup: Wang Qiaoye Liu Rui Costume: Wang Junhan

Recording/mixing: Wu Wenjun

Shooting/Post-production: Tang Bin Photography Assistant: You Jianing

Produced by: Zide Qin Society