
Wu Suyong new mountain song
Wu Suyong sings a new mountain song to commemorate an international livestock development project
This video was recorded in 1992, in the home of Wu Suyong. The song is one she made up in 1986 to sing as part of the village ceremony held to welcome visiting foreigners from Heifer Project International, an international NGO that gives gifts of livestock to poor farmers around the world. Here shan'ge are reinvented and "museumified" as a local cultural commodity, used to convey "local flavor" to a foreign audience. Perhaps this unnatural reinvention is what causes Wu Suyong to laugh at the end of her song. Translation: "Come everyone! The nice foreign friends have come, braving tall mountains and the long road. Quickly come and receive your dairy goats! "