"August Laurel Blossoms Everywhere"
Song category: Red Song, Folk Song
Song genre: Minor Key, Eight-part Song, Narrative Song
Singing form: Chorus
August Laurel Blossoms Everywhere
Bright red flag erected ah erected,
Opening lamps and colorful ah, open lamps and colorful ah,
Glorious brilliant flash of the new world,
This is the first time that a new world is born. The new world is shining brightly.
The Red Army is a powerful army, the most valiant in the hundred battles.
Capturing Zhang Huizan alive, defeating Luo Zhuoying,
Smashing Chiang Kai-shek's siege,
A red flag floats in the air, the Red Army will expand its ranks.
Defending the new regime of workers and peasants, leading the masses in the revolution,
The red soldiers are the most honorable.
Dear workers, dear peasants,
Take up your swords and guns and come to be the Red Army,
Take up your swords and guns and come to be the Red Army.
Expanded Information
"August Osmanthus Flowers Bloom Everywhere" is a revolutionary song that has been widely circulated in China, and has been sung to this day, influencing several generations, yet no one knows who its exact author is. There are three versions of the song that have been circulating: one says that it is a Jiangxi folk song; one says that it was made by a revolutionary martyr in Shangcheng County, Henan Province; and the other says that it was made by Luo Yinqing in Bamboo Garden Town, Jinzhai County, Anhui Province. The song was composed to glorify the establishment of the Soviet regime.
The question of the song's creator and the time and place of its creation has been the subject of much controversy since the 1980s. It is difficult to identify the author of this song as a particular person, and it has been gradually enriched and perfected by many people in the process of circulation. The song was adapted from a Dabie Mountain folk song. But only the Dabie Mountain Revolutionary old area of Henan Shangcheng said, Henan Xinxian said, Hubei Hong'an said, Anhui Jinzhai said, Anhui Liu'an said, and so on, there was a period of time there is the Central Soviet Zone Jiangxi said.
Because the song tunes and Jiangxi folk song style is very different, Jiangxi was eventually ruled out by researchers, but regarded as from Jiangxi produced further dissemination. 1931 summer, the original work in the Soviet Union in Hubei, Hubei and Anhui Province in the Red Army 32 division deputy division commander Chia Dewei and a group of comrades, from Hubei and Anhui Province to the central base, this song was brought by them to the central base in Jiangxi Province, where it was soon circulated. Beginning in October 1932, the Red Four Front Army moved from the EYA Soviet Union to Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the song was sung again to the Sichuan-Shaanxi area.
After the founding of New China, as "Guihua" became more and more popular throughout the country, it eventually became a classic red song. 1959, composer Li Huanzhi and lyricist Huo Xiyang adapted the folk song into a folk chorus, and in 1964, they used it in the second scene of the large-scale music and dance epic "The East is Red," "Starry Fire Starts a Prairie Fire," where it was shockingly presented with a chorus of female voices. Since then, the chorus has also become the most common rendition of the song.
Baidu Encyclopedia-August Laurel Blossoms Everywhere (Folk Song (Revolutionary Song))