What is the background information of fishing boats singing late?

Fishing boat singing late is a famous guzheng song. It is generally believed that Lou Shuhua adapted this song from the material of the ancient song "Going Home" in the mid-1930s. The title is taken from the famous sentence in Wang Bo's Preface to Wang Tengting in the Tang Dynasty-"The fishing boat sings late and rings on the shore of Peng Li; Yan Zhen was shocked and broke the Hengyang Chronicle.

Recent research shows that this song was not created by Lou Shuhua, but was adapted by Jin Zhuonan based on the folk Zheng song "Shuangban" and its evolution songs "Sunset on the Third Ring Road" and "Running Water Exciting Stones" circulating in Linqing area of Liaocheng, Shandong Province. In 1930s, Jin Zhuonan taught this song to Lou Shuhua, and Lou Shuhua developed greatly, adding the second half of music on the basis of Jin Qupu, so this version quickly spread all over the country.

The whole song is divided into three paragraphs.

In the first paragraph, a melodious and singing melody is played in slow version, and the appreciation of the night view of the lakeside is expressed by rubbing and chanting with the left hand.

The second paragraph is developed from the relationship between the upper and lower octaves of the tune in the first paragraph, and the long sound "Fa" is played in a combination of pressure and kneading, changing the mode.

In the third paragraph, Allegro played a series of modular notes. Show scenes such as paddling, sculling and splashing waves, and then the music will gradually accelerate, depicting the scene of fishing boats returning late in various ways of pressing and sliding.

"Fishing boats sing late" depicts the poetry of fishermen singing at sunset. In the second half of it, the rising and falling melody and the change of the speed and intensity of gradual development are used, which successfully shows the warm scene of a hundred ships fighting for return. In the first half of music, phrases and phrases, or clauses in phrases, mostly adopt the "antithesis" structure of answering up and down. Although the structure of upper and lower phrases and clauses is not very square and symmetrical, the up-and-down echo of music still gives people a sense of regular structure.

The melody of Fishing Boat Singing Late is smooth and beautiful, and it has been adapted into various forms, becoming one of the most popular traditional music in China. The electronic synthesizer plays "Fishing Boat Singing Late", which was selected as the soundtrack of "Weather Forecast" by CCTV and played at 7: 30 every night.