Wang Yongde's "Turn Over Song" Erhu Performance Explained Duan Aai Demonstration
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The Song of Turning Over is an adaptation of Mr. Wang Guotong, a famous erhu performer, based on Zhang Xiecheng's original Banhu tune "Returning and Not Forgetting the Communist Party".

The song "Turn Over Song" has a strong local flavor of Henan, expressing the joy of the working people's liberation and the indictment of the suffering life in the old society.

The music is written in a complex trilogy with reproduction, and the whole piece is composed of three paragraphs: Allegro, Adagio and Allegro. The first stanza: Allegro, with warm emotions and active rhythm, vividly depicts the joyous scene of the working people turning over. The second stanza: Adagio, weeping and complaining, emotional depression, long tune, profoundly expressing people's painful memories of the miserable life in the past. The third passage: Allegro, the first half of which reproduces the Allegro theme of the first passage, with a warm and unrestrained tune; the second half of the melody is further developed, with people singing and dancing, and the joy and cheerfulness reaches a climax. The whole song ends in an atmosphere.

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Born in December 1945, a native of Shanghai, he is a famous erhu educator, performer, member of the Chinese Musicians Association, executive director of the Chinese National Orchestra Society, and vice president of the Erhu Society of the Chinese Music Association.
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Erhu (Pinyin: Erhu) originated in the Tang Dynasty, called "Xiqin", and has a history of more than a thousand years. It is a traditional Chinese stringed instrument. Erhu, or Erxian Huqin, also known as "Nanhu" and "Omzi", is one of the main bowed and stringed instruments (wiping strings) in the Chinese national musical instrument family.

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