Hakka hill songs are one of the genres of Chinese folk songs and are known as heavenly music with the legacy of Classic of Poetry, which has a history of more than a thousand years since the Tang Dynasty. It has been sung in the Hakka dialect, called the "Hakka hill song." Hakka hill songs are the Hakka people's oral tradition with a wide range of content, simple and vivid language, and lyrics that make good use of metaphors and rhymes. Most lyrics have seven characters per line, and the first, second, and fourth sentences have more flat rhymes. Meizhou Hakka hill songs have been handed down from mouth to mouth, with a hundred turns of accent, cheerful and clear, and have been passed down to hundreds of folk families, being a product of the fusion of the Central Plains culture and the indigenous culture of Meizhou. We take it as the entry point because, as a sound, it has no figurative form and can give people enough space to play. And the music itself has a sense of rhythm and variables, and the sound and image are mingled, creating a feast of aural visualization.

Background Music: China-shanghai (Copyright by Xu Mengyuan)

               Chang Tan Xing Chu Gong Wang Po (Copyright by Liao Fenfang)

Special thanks to Wu Yifan (Zhejiang Conservatory of Music) for participating in the second creation of folk songs