Out of cherishing folk art, Ye Lin wrote a letter to the leaders of the provincial party committee, calling for attention to the endangered plight of Huidong fishing songs, and talked about his own ideas on saving Huidong fishing songs. This letter received great attention from Zhu Xiaodan and other provincial party committee leaders. After instructions and copying, the letter was distributed to party committees at all levels.

Xu 24, a 92-year-old villager from Fanhe Village, Renshan Town, is the oldest fisherman singer in Huidong and one of the few second-generation inheritors.

At present, Ye Lin has started to classify and sort out the fishing songs, and arranged the most typical five or six fishing songs into a simple score, and plans to match them with two lyrics versions in Mandarin and Fulao dialect.

The development of fishing songs should be "unchanged"

At the end of the interview, the old man hummed us a fishing song of Huidong compiled by him ...

The cultural department of Guangdong Province declared "Huidong Fishing Song" to the central government as a national intangible cultural heritage last year. The next work is to popularize and develop fishing songs.

Ye Lin thinks there should be different ways for different objects. From the standpoint of professional musicians, Ye Lin pointed out that simply using the material of fishing songs to create songs can not meet the needs of the development of fishing songs. We should follow the principle of "moving without changing the shape" and write new words on the basis of retaining the basic melody and flavor of fishing songs, so that fishing songs can meet the aesthetic needs of modern people and express the feelings of modern fishermen. He thinks that the path taken by Hakka folk songs is worth learning, especially the album "Hakka Sisters" recently published by Huizhou singer Huang Hongying, which he thinks has reached a new peak in the development of Hakka folk songs.

For the public, Ye Lin believes that with the support and advocacy of the government and relevant cultural departments, we should create a cultural atmosphere of singing fisherman's songs, publicize and promote fisherman's songs by means of media, and popularize some classic fisherman's songs that ordinary people can easily read in schools and the whole society. In addition, there should be multiple versions of fishing songs, and listeners who can't speak Fulao dialect can also learn to sing Mandarin versions.

At the end of the interview, the old man even hummed us a fishing song in Huidong compiled by him. In a dedicated and infatuated manner, an 84-year-old man poured all his enthusiasm for endangered folk literature and art: "Two mountains are born with a peak, and two gardens are sweet with sugar cane." Four city songs are sung by many people, but you don't think it's wrong to sing one sentence ... "