Sometimes the wind blows through the clothes and trousers, like small flags. The man stood on the bow of the boat, crossed his waist and roared a mountain song, which frightened the waterfowl on the river in all directions.

The scorching sun scorched them directly on them for a long time, and the skin of each boatman was tanned as if it had been painted with a layer of tung oil, and the complexion became brown and shiny.

They put on their shirts only when they pass by villages and ferries.

After living in such a living environment for a long time, the words and deeds of the boatmen become dissolute and rude. This time, when the fleet drove to a weir, some saw a delicate woman near the waterwheel, who was squatting on a large stone slab by the river to scrub her clothes. ”

Most of the Hakka people live on both sides of the Xijiang River, and most of the young Hakka men and women like to sing mountain songs.

They sang on the singing field, sang on the mountain and riverside, sang at the end of the road, or were tired from working in the fields, even if they didn't meet an opponent, they had to entertain themselves and hum a few words to relieve boredom and vent their feelings.

They may touch the scene and complain to each other; or quoting scriptures; Or laugh at each other and praise each other, and have fun.

Among the Hakka people in this area, there is a story of a song fairy.

According to legend, this singer is called Tang Huixian and is good at singing mountain songs. Proficient in beautiful mountain songs and musical melodies, known as "song fairy", "song saint", thousands of miles to hear the name of the song to come, or one day, or two or three days, the death can not be paid and gone.

Huixian interprets the rhythm of music, the game is Taoist, often travels between Hujing and Beijing, the most numerous kinds of barbarians, where they pass, they understand their language.

When you meet a certain person, you will sing and sing with a certain voice, and a certain person will take it as a style. Taste with a young man in Baihe Township, climb the mountain and sing, the people of the lake and Yao, Zhuang all kinds of people, watch it, dozens of men and women, salty as immortals.

For seven days and nights, the singing continued, and all of them turned to stone. The natives are enshrined in the Yangchun Jinshi rock, the shape is like nine songs, can accommodate one person, the black and bright are bright, and the relics of the immortal are also.

Day and night, I heard the sound of cranes. When the years are ripe, it is as if someone has climbed to the top of the rock and sang. Suffering from immortals, now called song immortals, where to sing, regardless of the lake people and Yao Zhuang Mountain, etc., the song must be provided first, the wisher hides it, and the person who asks for the song will record it. It is not allowed to be carried out, and it gradually accumulates to several baskets. ”

Tang Huixian, with grandfather, father, mother and eldest brother Tang Aniu, the family calls her "Huixian".

Hakka folk songs are good at antiphons, which often requires singers to have the qualities and skills of seeing the scene, improvising, and being sensitive.

There is a young man named Luo Yin in the guest land, he has lofty ambitions to be the son of heaven, but in fact he didn't even get into the exam, he lived in seclusion in the mountains in a fit of anger, and entertained himself every day by composing mountain songs.

He wrote so many songs that he filled three rooms. Once, he heard that Tang Huixian's mountain songs were singing well, and the people were beautiful, and he also let out a rumor: "Sing mountain songs, if someone can win over me, I will marry him." ”

After Luo Yin heard this, he hired three boats overnight and went to Tang Huixian to sing a duet with some of his mountain song scripts. In fact, Luo Yin's mountain song book can fill nine boats, but if he thinks that three mountain songs can't defeat a woman, then is he still a talent?

When the boat arrived at the village where Tang Huixian lived, she saw a delicate Hakka woman on the shore carrying water, so Luo Yin asked her about Tang Huixian's residence, and specially explained that she came to sing and wanted to marry her as a wife.

The woman carrying the water put down her burden, looked at him with a smile, and said, "May I ask sir, how many songs do you have?"

Luo Yin said heroically: "There are nine boats of mountain songs, three boats are in the provincial capital, three boats are in Huzhou, and the three boats have reached the shore. ”

After hearing this, the woman smiled implicitly and persuaded her: "Sir, please go back, it seems that you are not Tang Huixian's opponent."

Luo Yin asked in surprise, "Why?"

The woman did not answer directly, but sang improvised in a light singing voice: "Tang Huixian on the stone, Luo Xiucai on the road, everyone sings in the belly, how can there be a mountain song boat to support it?"

It turned out that this woman carrying water was the song fairy Tang Huixian, her singing voice was really extraordinary, and Luo Yin was shocked as soon as she opened her mouth to sing.

He rummaged through the songbooks he had written on the ship, but he couldn't get a word right. He was so angry that he threw the Mifune Mountain Song Book into the river and retreated in shame.

Most of the mountain songs in this area are famous for their lyricism, lingering, melodious, and tactful, and the image of Tang Huixian represents the outstanding talent of Hakka women in terms of artistic ability.

The reason why its image is so popular is also understandable.

The Hakka people like to sing mountain songs, mainly because of their living environment and the degree of labor, as well as their enthusiastic and optimistic character.

As they sang in the song, "Singing is not greedy, singing is to relieve sorrow." ”

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Liang Hebiao belongs to a temperamental person, he doesn't smoke big cigarettes or gamble on the dock outside, but he loves to eat and drink, likes to be greedy for women, and sings mountain songs.

At that time, there were many fireworks women on the wharves along the Xijiang River and the Yangtze River, and the flower boats were often bright and fragrant at night.

If the boat is moored on some pier, Liang Hebiao will go to the handsome girl at night to wander, and he loves to run to the flower boat by the river to seek the amorous woman who was once good to go wild. At that time, Liang Hebiao was already a man in his early eighteenth, and when he was just ten years old, his mother wanted to ask the matchmaker to order a baby for him Zhang Luo, find a girl with a good family and good talents, and give him a round house to marry if he said that it was a family affair, so as to start a family as soon as possible so that he could inherit the Liang family.

And his mother mentioned a few times that he was not happy, so he refused to agree, and usually only liked to mess with flowers and grass outside.

often spend money on wild women outside, and even take money to go to the water.

At that time, the guys on the boat often made fun of Liang Hebiao, saying that he "had a bowl full of oily herbs, and he had the intention to plant but not to harvest".

If the boat passes through a village or ferry, he meets a woman who has a heart, and he usually likes to find words to talk to them, and likes to provoke people with mountain songs.

Sometimes if he meets a cautious eye, the woman will scold him;

If you meet a thin-skinned person, the woman bows her head and ignores it;

If she met a generous person, the woman would sing with him.

Once, Liang Hebiao and the boat passed by a village ferry in Xijiang and saw a handsome woman washing clothes on a big stone under the willow tree at the ferry.

Liang Hebiao found gossip to talk to the woman, wanting to provoke others, "Pretty girl, go on a boat with my brother to Suzhou and Hangzhou to buy rouge gouache for you." ”

The woman looked up at him carefully, and Liang Hebiao saw that her big eyes were like water in a river, clear and bright, very charming.

I saw her smile, "Don't come back?" ”

Liang Hebiao was so made by the woman's provocative eyes and smiling face that he almost forgot what his surname was.

"Okay?" The woman threw another wink at Liang Hebiao for further teasing.

"Okay! Don't come back, don't come back! Liang Hebiao couldn't hold back the passion that surged up all over his body, and shouted, "Pretty girl wait for me!" ”

Then he threw away the penny and jumped into the water, trying to chase the woman.

The woman turned around, and Liang Hebiao looked up and saw that she had a delicate bun combed behind her head, and the rest of her hair hung down her neck to the back of her shoulders and chest, looking very charming.

Hakka girls wear long braids, and young women wear their hair in buns. When the woman saw him swim ashore, she laughed and rolled back. Then he stroked a strand of soft hair beside his face and sang:

There is a river under the towering mountain, and the brother is a duck and a sister is a chicken.

The chicken is not the companion of the duck, so I persuaded my brother not to chase my sister.

Liang He sings:

There is a river under the towering mountain, and the brother is the duck and the sister is the river.

How can there be a duck who doesn't love water, and how can there be a lover who doesn't want to be a sister.

Female Singing:

Big brother, don't be too careful, your wife is so spicy.

Go back and twist the back of your ear, and punish you for kneeling on the washboard.

Liang He sings:

Brother really loves his little sister, and he hasn't married until he is twenty years old.

Sincerely tie the knot with my sister, I don't know if there is such a blessing?

Female Singing:

It's my sister who has no blessing to suffer, and my sister keeps an empty room at home.

The girl was born with shallow blessings, and she didn't dare to look forward to her brother being a lover.

Liang He sings:

The stars in the sky are matched with the moon, and the pretty girls on the ground are matched with lovers.

Thousands of brothers don't love it, and they just want to be paired with their sisters.

Female Singing:

Brother is smart and handsome, and my sister is happy to sing.

Trick my sister into the middle of the water, and it's not a dilemma to go back and forth.

Liang He sings:

Brother really loves his little sister, and he says it from the bottom of his heart.

If my sister still doesn't believe it, I'm willing to swear to the sky.

Female Singing:

My sister's family lives in Changhe Bend, and my brother's family is located in Tianlu Mountain.

In the end, my brother is sincere to my sister, and it is difficult for each side of the world to become a pair.

Liang He sings:

On the 15th day of August, the moon was bright, and I asked my sister to see the golden lotus blooming.

The sister is Jin Lianxiang Shili, and the brother is next to the bee companion sister.

Female Singing:

Brother Mo sings and thinks about it, my sister is not on your side.

The thrush only loves to live in the mountains, and the swallow walks away from home.

Liang He sings:

The eighteenth sister is really hearty, don't always make excuses.

As long as your sister is willing, let you wear gold and silver.

Female Singing:

A lover is not afraid of poverty, as long as his brother has great ambitions.

The gold and silver treasure sister doesn't love it, but she only loves her brother as a lover.

Liang He sings:

My sister is really well-behaved, and it's so coincidental that my sister is so good, and it's hard to tell if the affection is good.

In every way, only affection is important, and no one is allowed to lose anyone.

Female Singing:

Brother is smart and handsome, and no one is allowed to lose anyone.

If you have the heart to connect with each other until you are old, you are not allowed to have different hearts halfway.

Liang He sings:

In heaven I wish to be a winged bird, and on the earth I wish to tie the branches.

If the brother has a different heart halfway, unless the Yangtze River flows backwards.

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In this way, Liang Hebiao touched the heart of this beautiful girl with a beautiful song, and finally won the beauty.

Liang Hebiao won the beauty of the woman's surname Ding.

After Ding married Liang Hebiao, he spread his branches and leaves, and after giving birth to a boy and three girls for the Liang family, he did not bloom again for many years and bear fruit.

However, I didn't expect that she was in her forties, but she was like a plant in autumn, and only a few days before the leaves and branches withered, she sprouted and bloomed again, and even raised a big belly at the same time as her married eldest daughter Chunhua, ushering in the second spring of her life.

Chunhua's child was born first, it is a woman, due to the poverty of the family, it is not easy to support a good mother-in-law for a month.