Declarer: Yizhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
There is an ocean of songs in China, and in Guangxi Province, the most famous song is the Ballad of Sister Liu Sanjie.
Liu Sanjie (which translates as 'third sister in the Liu family') is a legend among the Zhuang people. Zhuang is one of the 56 ethnic groups in China and, with a population of 15 million, is second only to the Han people, who account for more than 91 percent of the nation's total population of 1.3 billion.
The Zhuang people believe Sanjie was the incarnation of a lark, and she started speaking eloquently when she was only one. At the age of three, she already had a melodious voice. In her teens, she was regarded as the top singer of folk songs-songs in an antiphonal style, typical of the ethnic people in South China. At the age of 12, Liu Sanjie was already famous for her extraordinary talent at improvising songs.
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