Yi folk music "Yi Cottage Spring" from the album "Music Map of China Hear Yunnan Yi Folk Music Collection"

Spring in the Yi Mountain Village. Spring in the Yi Mountain Village

Composer: Li Bingcheng Nationality: Yi Nationality Region: Yunnan

Yi direct flute: Gong Zheng

A series of clear birds came through the sky and broke the clouds, and fell on the fields among the mountains and among the treetops, opening the prelude to the concerto-like spring scenery of the Yi village. Golden sunshine everywhere, smoke curling up, the village with a new day has just been woken up, the time flows in an orderly way, people go out of the house, walk in the mountain flowers in full bloom, leading the cattle, began a year of hard work. And the butterfly in the flower phase, the lover's mind has also been the spring rain to open the root bud, circulation in the eye of each other's attention.

This bright, refreshing and stunning tone comes from the direct flute, which, like the mouth string, is a musical instrument handed down from ancient times by the Li people, and is called "Jihi" in their language. The structure and playing mode are similar to the characteristics of the original bone whistle. Its expression is rich and free, and the Yi people use it to express their feelings impromptu, when it is direct and bright short sentences, such as chirping birds, such as the voice of the heart, not waiting for the door to hit the eardrum, when it is the meandering drag sound, such as the mountains stretch, such as the endless singing, the thin flute sound conveys the distant and vast sense of time and space.