Yao Kaihua

an old farmer yao kaihua, known as the `long king' `back', who was named by the ministry of culture as a representative heir to the intangible cultural heritage project at the national level, is located in the village of ruhae, dan jiangkou city, hubei province.

he was said to have been able to sing over 2,000 folk songs, three days in a row and three nights without problems.

out of curiosity, the writer decided to visit him.

at the age of 69, yao kaihua's spirit sounded like a flood: “today two sons of us sing, one for nothing and the other for red.

there are at least two in a week, and five or six in a week when the holidays are busy." singin' two nights for $500.

five of us in a team, a hundred bucks a man, a cigarette.

every year, they sing to the nearby towns of ding's, ting's, the old camp, the helipeng, and to the ten-year-olds and the county.

i've been to wuhan, beijing, shanghai.

in may 2007, we went to beijing university to sing, and during the summer, the students of the great north came to our village to train, and several students still live in my home.” turning to the legacy of lu's song, yao's energy is even stronger: “my students are many, including beijing university, chinese teachers college, wuhan music school, and our home-grown farm boy, lu's son, now number 100.

the government conducts folk songs in schools, families and institutions, often inviting us to teach students.

the government also spent $4.5 million on sending 25 of our kids to art school training, and now they're back.

"what good is singing for you?" in 1999, it was only after li saikang of the helipeng cultural station discovered our village of folk songs that koyama and lu's river received attention.

this was a place where ghosts could not have been found before, and if a car came, the people would have to look around for hours.

the reference to the mountain gave the impression that poverty was backward, that there were no cadres and no teachers.

it's hard for a young man to find someone, and the girls are marrying out of the mountains." "li chiu was fasting before, i was a year old and i had to cash a pig's head, and when i was running, i was playing every day." yao kaihua has some feelings about the bitter days before.

when he was a child, he lived a difficult life, without food or clothes.

he was seven years old, and he was six years old.

but after years of singing mountain songs, "we're a high sesame flower.

let's say we're in river village.

we used to have no traffic, only 6 km of simple dirt road.

in 2001, provincial and municipal investments made it into the first village-to-village tarp road in the city of danjiango, and in 2004 it was built on the road from lu's river to tanyu, with cement roads in front of all households.

on 8 june last year, i moved into my new home and lived in a small building.

it was on that day that lu's song was added to the national list of intangible cultural heritage。now there's a way, tourists come to play, listen to songs, watch the scenery, eat the farm food, it's bad! more than 30 buses a day.

all the people in the village with a head of business have a farm family that earns tens of thousands of dollars a year, or more than 300,000 dollars a year.” <

< omama, lu's river, hey, so many singers, boys, girls, boys, boys, girls, boys, singing and singingthe old king stood up and expressed his joy with his voice.

i'm sorry