Selling Tangyuan is a Taiwan Province folk song written by China's outstanding songwriters Chen Dieyi and Yao Min in the 20th century, which was first sung by Fang Jingyin. It's an episode of the movie Peach Blossom Spring. This song is very popular on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. It has been performed by many different singers in Chinese mainland, Hongkong and Taiwan Province.
Selling Tangyuan is generally regarded as a folk song in Taiwan Province, but it is actually a song creation. After listening to this song, we can feel and experience the humorous happy mood brought by the song, and the singer can also run this mood through the whole song.
Song's interpretation of Selling Tangyuan is a national mode in China, and it is a six-tone quotient mode with obvious angle deviation. The notation of notation 6 is the main key, and the mode scale is 6,7, 1, 2,3,5,6, and there is a second degree in the scale.
The whole song * * * 7 tones are presented 8 times, 1 tone * * * is presented 5 times, and 7 is presented 3 times more than 1. Seven notes have a long beat, while the longest note of 1 is only half a beat. There is no 1 tone in the first paragraph of the song, but it is a six-tone type with five tones, and there is 1 tone in the second paragraph, but it is not as important as the 7-corner tone. As a positive note, 7 appears on the important fulcrum of the melody, such as the 7 notes of 6, 7 and 3 in the second bar and 3, 7 and 6 in the penultimate bar. These seven notes not only occupy the beat time of "-",but also play an important role before the period tonic.