Girls of Daban Town
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Daban's Girls, Loulan's Ruins
While Daban town is always associated with the happy melody of the famous folk song "Daban girls", Loulan is a mysterious place, regarded as the Middle Kingdom's "Pompeii" and an ancient cradle of civilization. Meaning "a passage to get through", Daban town is situated about 90 kilometers south of Urumqi, right in a valley on the east ridge of Tianshan Mountain. It's not the only place in Xinjiang with this name, but it is this town which features in Mr. Wang Luobin's song, making this Daban a must stop for every Chinese traveler. Halfway between downtown Urumqi and Daban, there is a great backdrop for picture buffs, the wind power plant. This is the largest wind power plant in the whole of Asia! Local people say even trucks can be blown off wheels when the wind gets up to full speed, although the wind only blows half a year here, from winter to summer. Water is a luxury item in Xinjiang, so the advantage of Daban's position near Tian shan is obvious, you get lakes. The salt lake at Chaiwopu Basin twenty kilometers north of Daban town is dubbed the Dead Sea of China. Word is, it's impossible to drown here, good news for non-swimmers. Indeed, with waters rich in salt and other healthy minerals, this lake is gaining popularity as a convenient and economic weekend getaway. Were it not for the famous song, Daban would probably just be another one-horse town in enormous Xinjiang, a mere lunch stopover for travelers on their way from Urumqi to the region's southern area. However, that's not to say that the town lacks its own attractions. Over eighty percent of the local population belong to the Hui Ethic group, who share customs similar to the Uygur people. They serve up plenty of mouth-watering Hui specialties, such as yogurt, dumplings and fried noodles. Moreover, when it comes to food for the brain, the fascinating history of Daban is a good starting point. Specifically, try starting at Baishui Fort Relics, just five kilometers out of town. This site used to be an ancient fortress during the Tang Dynasty, yet now the local government has rebuilt it into a theme park, where you can get a pretty good insight into the local people's life style. Guarding the middle route of the Silk Road thousand years ago, Baishui Fort is located right on the demarcation line of North and South Xinjiang. Even today, you can still identify the rammed earth walls of this fortress, which was built on a single piece of black rock, and surrounded by Baishui Creek, or White water Creek. "Daban Girls" is the first Uygur folk song Wang Luobin adapted into Chinese, and probably the most popular one.
Shirley Sung Chinese (Xinjiang) Folk Song--0031: The Girl of Daban City
Saturday evening, instead of learning something from my vocal music teacher as usual, I taught myself a Chinese (Xijiang) folk song -- The Girl of Daban City for my teacher had hurt her feet on the stairs. This song was written by A Famous Chinese Musician Wang Luobing. It is very famous in China. :-) Can you imagine? Since this song sang what beautiful the girls in Baban City, the little City of Xinjiang has changed to be a famous tourist city, almost all of the people who have gone to Xinjiang want to go to the city to see the beautiful girls in the city... :-) I have been found funny why the singer said to the girl who is in his heart: Bring your money and wealth, take with your younger sister, come to me by your horse cart... Maybe you can understand it after read something about Wang Luobing … Daban City's stone street is so flat and hard, Watermelon is so big and sweet! A girl in Daban City has some long braideds, Her two eyes are so beautiful! If you wanted to get marrying, don't marry anyone else, You must marry only me. Bring your money and wealth, take with your younger sister, come to me by your horse cart...
Xiaolan in Daban and Turpan
Don't you just love the music, the view, the people - everything about this incredible place - Xinjiang? And you guessed it, it's another song by Mr. Wang Luobing, a song that almost every Chinese can hum along to its tune - Daban Girls. Welcome to Travelogue, and welcome back to our music journey! There are numerous ways to experience Xinjiang, chasing the musical notes of Mr. Wang opens up a whole new dimension for me to say the least. What makes the land inspire such energy in its music? The sound of wind, the color of sand, the smile of a girl, or - wait, dear friends, why don't you join us on the road for the next half hour and find out your own perfect answer? Meaning "a passage to get through", our destination No. 1 - Daban town is situated about 90 kilometers south of Urumqi, right in a valley on the east ridge of Tianshan Mountain. It's not the only place named as such in Xinjiang, but it is the Daban town mentioned in Mr. Wang's song, hence a must stop for every Chinese traveler. With this easy breeze, it's really hard to imagine that this is actually the most formidable wind zone in Xinjiang. And look around me, this is also the largest wind power plant in whole Asia!
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1 What is the meaning of girl from daban town in Chinese and how to say girl from daban town in Chinese?
2 The famous song Girl of DaBan City has an interesting story of its own.
3 Although Wang spent his life collecting and composing northwestern folk songs including ones from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, he never set foot there until 1949, ten years after he composed his first Xinjiang-inspired song, The Girl from DaBan City.