In its infancy, our army attached great importance to playing the role of revolutionary struggle songs. In the Resolution of the Gutian Conference (December 1929), it was stipulated that "each political department is responsible for collecting and compiling songs expressing the struggle of various revolutionary sentiments of the masses, and the military political department is responsible for supervising and investigating them."
There are more than two hundred war songs produced in the Second Domestic Revolutionary War that are still being sung and compiled. These war songs reflect, quite completely, the battle course of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army during this period. They include the battle song "The Uprising of August 1", which was produced when our army was founded in 1927, and the battle songs for various stages of history, such as the meeting at Jinggang Mountain, the creation of revolutionary bases, the five campaigns against "encirclement and suppression", the Long March, and so forth, and have been continued up to the song "Celebration of the General Assembly and Unity of the Red Army", which was produced in the victorious division of the main forces of the Red Army in the First, Second, and Fourth Sides of the Red Army on October 18th 1936, which is still being sung and printed today. Celebration of the Red Army's General Assembly. The lyrics of these works are vivid and simple, and most of them are made from the tunes of folk songs, ancient songs or other Chinese and foreign songs, which are catchy and easy to circulate. Among them, there are also war songs that are closely related to a certain battle and military operation, such as the Song of Re-occupying Zunyi, the Victory Song of Crossing the Jinsha River, the Song of Fighting Cavalry, and so on. In particular, the "Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention" song is one of the iconic songs of our army that arose during the Red Army period, embodying our army's purpose, mission, discipline, morality and fighting spirit.
The creation of war songs and singing activities during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression were at an all-time high, and today there are more than 1,000 war songs in the collection, which played a great role in mobilizing, uniting and inspiring the whole nation to fight against the war.
The March of the Volunteer Army, which appeared in 1935, has become the strongest sound of the times in rallying and inspiring the Chinese nation to fight against Japanese Aggression and salvation. Today, "March of the Volunteers" has become our national anthem by giving the Chinese nation the zeitgeist of being prepared for danger and self-improvement. Meanwhile, "March of Salvation" appeared in 1936, "March of the Great Sword" appeared after the July 7 Incident in 1937, "On the Taihang Mountains", "Going Behind the Enemy's Border" and "Song of the Partisans" appeared in 1938, and "Yellow River Chorus" and "Eighth Route Army Chorus" appeared in 1938 and 1939, all of which are extremely rich in combat. classics, all extremely rich in fighting bravado.
Our national anthem and military anthem were both born during the war period. the birth of the Eighth Route Army anthem, the Eighth Route Army March, and the New Fourth Army anthem in 1939 marked the beginning of a period of vigorous development in the creation of our military anthems and battle hymns. in July 1988, the Central Military Commission issued a decree formally identifying the Eighth Route March as the People's Liberation Army (PLA) anthem. This shows that the traditional military song born in the era of millet and rifles, its embodiment of the essence of the combat spirit of our army is a lineage.
The creation of war songs during the Third Domestic Revolutionary War developed rapidly. The war songs produced during this period are not only fresh in the memory of old comrades, but also in the memory of a group of soldiers who grew up under the five-starred red flag, who grew up singing war songs born in the flames of war. Like "Battle March", "Saying Fight", "Fighting Well", "I Carry the Gun for the People", "Come to a Great Race to Annihilate the Enemy", etc., together with the war songs of the past historical periods, have been well inherited in the era of peace and construction, and have played a special role in improving the combat power of consolidated troops, fostering the spirit of fighting among the general officers and soldiers, and carrying out national defense education for the whole nation.
After the founding of New China, our army has produced many excellent works embodying the spirit of combat at every stage of history. For example, the Battle Hymn of the Volunteer Army, born in 1950, has long been recognized by history as the iconic musical image of the volunteer army. In the same year, "I am a Soldier" was produced, a representative song that emerged from the transition from the war years to the peace-building period. Songs embodying the spirit of combat during this period expressed the combat life of our army in which many military branches carried out large-scale training, eulogized the sacred mission of defending the motherland and the iron will to fight of the officers and soldiers. Such as in the military and outside the widely sung "People's Navy forward", "Mao Zedong's Eagle", "I love my motherland", "why is it honorable to be a soldier", "March", "Coastal Artillery Song", "the People's Army is loyal to the Party", "the people's army on horseback and gun to go all over the world," "waiting to sail", "the sailors back to the coast", "heroes of the automobile driver," "I love the motherland's blue sky", "I stand guard for the Great Motherland", "I guard the bridge for the motherland", "I guard the bridge for the motherland", "I guard the bridge for the motherland", "I guard the bridge for the motherland". I Guard the Bridge for the Motherland", "I Love the Blue Ocean", "I Love Wuzhishan Mountain, I Love Wanquan River", "Walking on the Practice Field", "The August 1st Army Flag Flies High" and so on. These works have not only spread to the military camp, but are also familiar to the general public.
Songs embodying the spirit of combat emerged during this period, and the expansion of its subject matter and genre also promoted the innovation of form and style, adding to its artistic charm. Such as the chorus "heroes overcame the Dadu River", solo "singing Erlangshan", reflecting our army into the southwest border, the construction of the southwestern border of the fighting spirit, in the music of the material and the form of style are refreshing feeling. It is the first representative work reflecting the emotion of new recruits when the compulsory military service system was implemented. There are two boys of general height", showing the fighting spirit of two anti-aircraft soldiers to fight enemy planes and the virtue of mutual modesty in front of honor. Returning from Target Shooting" is a team song with a good combination of contextualization and characterization, which has been sung for more than 40 years and is always new. An important work that appeared in this period is the Long March group song "The Red Army is Not Afraid of the Long March". This group of works not only vividly expresses the difficult course of the Long March, at the same time, each song embodies a very personalized fighting spirit.
When history entered the new era of reform and opening up, the creation of songs embodying the fighting spirit of our army and the singing activities had a new development. Its main features are new thematic concepts, new lyrics and language, and new forms and styles. The song "Soldiers", the style of lyrics and songs, the embodiment of ideas and values, artistic temperament, etc. are rich in contemporary characteristics, is an innovative example of writing a song of the formation in the form of a fusion of lead singing and chorus. One, Two, Three, Four Songs", "Army Rhythm", "I follow the motherland one, two, one", etc., although they are all marching in formation with the password to start, but also to extend the meaning of their different angles, sung with a high fighting spirit. The history of the soldiers", "military man", etc., from today's very realistic social value orientation into the opening of the formation of songs and popular songs to blend the precursor.
We are also pleased to see that from the eight songs of the "Soldier's Moral Song" to the various themes and genres of military songs that have emerged since the new era, all consciously incorporate the fighting spirit of the era's keynote. Songs like "Night at the Military Harbor", "Little Poplar", "Dream of the Rocket Soldiers", "Soldiers of the East, West, South and North", "Heaven's Path" and "In the Age of Peace" all embody the spirit of combat at various levels of military life.
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