Liu Sanjie

The evil farmer Mo Huairen was said to make Liu Sanjie his slave girl and bribed officials to oppress her when she refused to do so.

When Liu Sanjie was three years old, she was found as having a melodious voice, and after she was a teenage girl, she was considered the top folk song singer, especially among the Zhuang People in South China.

The ballads of Liu Sanjie emphasize rhythm, singing method and unity of voice and emotion, and show the unique regional style of music and national aesthetic connotation.

Regardless, the absence of clear and systematic classification of intellectual in socialist China made Liu's music talent ignored by the public.

[13] Liu Sanjie is treated as an example of a real-life scenery performance artist in that she catered to audiences' emotional needs and helped those Chinese peasants to speak out their voice.

[14] Liu has developed her own traditional folk song style, which is treated as constituting several elements, including gamut scales, notations and other terminologies of musicological system.

[16] Impression Liu Sanjie was staged on March 20, 2004 by director Zhang Yimou in Yangshuo with more than 600 participants and is a local tourist attraction.

That is the world's biggest natural auditorium that uses Li River waters as its stage, with its backdrop to be twelve mist-enveloped hills.

[17] The light show lasts 70-minute on a nature stage along with the Li River, performers wear traditional attire from the Zhuang, Miao, and Yao minorities, which showcasing numerous light-emitting diodes.

[18] Under such circumstance, the establishment of a new kind of national music allows large groups of people to participate in and create a sense of solidarity spirit.

In Liu Sanjie's songs, she also utilized this kind of solidarity intention to stimulate the general audiences' desire to unite as one and protect their nations by fighting against the external enemies boldly.

To some extent, Liu's songs and performance shifted to civil-wide cultural movements in mainland China during this period of time.

[23] Later on, affected by China's opening and reform policy implemented in 1978, the culture of Liu Sanjie entered a prosperous development period as well.

[24] It has also attracted many audiences' attention and meets their appreciation needs in South East countries, both the revolutionary and patriotism spirits are considered as representatives of Chinese culture.

Reconstructed building at Liu Sanjie Park
Entrance door at Liu Sanjie Park reconstructed building
Memorial statue of Liu Sanjie