The syllables of The Yellow River Boatman Song include The Yellow River Boatman Song and the first movement of The Yellow River Cantata, which is a mixed chorus. Here is the timbre material of "Yellow River Boatman Song". This movement is divided into three parts. The first part depicts the scene of the boatman fighting with the wind and waves, and the music is full of fighting power. The second part broadens the rhythm and slows down according to the theme melody at the beginning.

It shows the pleasure of the boatman crossing the rapids and approaching the river bank. This shows that the people of China have seen the dawn of victory despite the difficulties in the War of Resistance. In the third part, the music returned to the speed at the beginning of the movement, but gradually weakened from strong to far. This movement symbolizes the increasingly fierce national contradiction between the people of China and Japanese imperialism through the struggle between the Yellow River boatmen and steep waves and hidden sand.

Creative background:

In the 1920s, Li Si, an honest farmer in Heyeping Village, Yizhen Town, jia county, on the poor and backward bank of the Yellow River, summed up the simple language representing the poor in China from his life's shipping career and sang the famous folk song "Yellow River Boatman Song", which shocked China and foreign countries. Li Si ordered a family to make trouble for three generations, and there were five or six good sailors, who were famous on both sides of the Yellow River.

His father had a rough life and died young. He lives by moving boats at the Yellow River ferry. In his twenties, he married a second wife and gave birth to four men and three women. Out of the desire for future generations to be auspicious, prosperous and happy, my father arranged the four brothers in the order of "longevity, destiny, wealth and nobility". The second child, Li Siming, was born in Heyeping Village in September 189 1.