Interpretation of Lang's Creative Background

It is said that after staying in Anshun, Sean Song learned that there is a Miao compatriot settlement in the suburbs-Wangjiashan and Xiazhai. After arriving at Wangjiashan, Sean Song and others lived in Miaozhai Primary School and helped the school to give lectures and teach songs during the day. In the evening, after coming back from working in the mountains, Miao compatriots went to visit the poor and ask questions. Over time, they became one with their Miao compatriots. Once, they invited a villager who used to do business outside and asked him to sing Lusheng folk songs in Chinese. This man sang "Kojiro", and Sean Song remembered the first two sentences: "Kojiro, ride into school." Because of my previous life experience and study of Miao art, I suddenly had inspiration and a desire to create, and the children's song "Reading Lang" was born.

(Editor's Note) The song "Reading Lang" excavated by Mr. Song Yang in Anshun is a local children's song sung by almost all students in Anshun during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period. Mr Song Yang only remembers the first two lyrics. According to the old Anshun people, the memoirs of Xixiu, who is nearly eighty years old, record:

"... the familiar children's song" Reading Lang "is adapted from Anshun local folk songs. After the adaptation of Reading Lang, the lyrics are more in line with the times and the arrangement is more professional. But I'm afraid not many people know the original ecological version of Reading Lang before adaptation.

When I was a child, my mother saw us naughty and taught us to sing children's songs. The lyrics read:

Ma Xiao rode Jiro into school.

Mr. Wang thinks I'm young and makes a fuss about it.

Three-character classics are short in space and read one line a day.

After reading the peach blossom, I saw the willow grow.

If you don't study hard, you will have no face to meet your parents.

Naer, knock and choke! Naer, knock and choke! (Learn to play suona and drum)

This is the original ecological version of Reading Lang. Mother taught us to sing this song in order to teach us to study hard and not to study casually like Kojiro. It can be seen from the lyrics that the sense of the times in the Republic of China is very strong. ……"