The girl in Dabancheng has long braids and beautiful eyes.
If you want to get married, don't marry anyone else, but you must marry me.
Take your money, take your sister and drive the carriage.
Dabancheng Girl is the first Uygur folk song composed by Wang in Lanzhou. It is also the first Uygur folk song translated into Chinese in modern China.
On 1938, Wang's anti-war drama group organized a get-together. A Uighur driver with a small flower hat and a moustache sang a short Uighur song.
Wang touched a keen musical nerve. Using the shorthand method he learned at school, he quickly wrote down the melody of this song and asked a Uighur vendor in Lanzhou to translate the lyrics simply. He quickly put it into a short and fluent Dabancheng Girl. This is the creative background of the classic folk song "The Girl in Dabancheng".
The song "The Girl in Dabancheng" was sung at home and abroad more than half a century ago and has become a favorite song of people all over the world.
The famous singer Klimu told reporters that since 1938, his father Abdul Guli has often performed with his mother on the streets of Turpan and on the stage of Urumqi Uygur Cultural Association, and they sang "The Girl of Dabancheng" together.
Later, the king of western songs adapted this song into the present coachman's song. The lyrics say, "Take your dowry, take your sister and come in that carriage", which once became a topic discussed by many people: Why do you want to bring your sister when you get married? Later, some scholars said that the translation was wrong, and it should be "bring your maid of honor", but people have become accustomed to the original singing.
After the song "Girls in Dabancheng" became popular all over the world, people knew that there was a Dabancheng in Xinjiang and there were beautiful girls in Dabancheng.
It is understood that Dabancheng in the song is located at the southern foot of Bogda Peak, the highest peak in the East Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang, 86 kilometers away from Urumqi, and the 3 12 National Road passes through the city. It used to be a small town, and sandstorms are frequent visitors here.