The predecessor of suona music "Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix" is called "Hundred Birds Sound", which is a kind of music popular in Shandong, Anhui, Henan, Hebei and other places in China and has a very strong folk flavor.
It is not a fairy tale that shows the worship of hundreds of birds to the phoenix, but expresses the vibrant nature and people's happy mood with unrestrained and warm melody and suona to simulate the jubilant scene of hundreds of birds contending. The music is lively and rough, cheerful and vivid, so it is often played at weddings and other festive ceremonies, which means auspiciousness and happiness.
Music appreciation:
Ren Tongxiang's adaptation of A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix consists of a stretched adagio, a slightly faster allegro, four passages of bird singing, colorful phrases and a quick ending. At the beginning of the music, the suona played a beautiful and singing prelude, in which the long and short parallel phrases echoed alternately like songs, forming funny and humorous music, which was very interesting in life.
After the prelude, the suona first blows out a warm and cheerful melody, rendering a lively atmosphere, and then, with a fixed melody, plays a bird song. The whole song is based on a warm and cheerful melody and two paragraphs sung by birds, and it is repeated in a cycle, and it is repeated six times before and after. The singing of birds is melodious, short, lively and hazy, which vividly depicts the singing of birds and shows a scene full of spring and the glory of all things in nature.