This year marks the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Fascist War and the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and the red tide is sweeping the stage in Beijing once again. One of the large-scale evening party "Salute to the Great Era" led by Dong Wenhua and Liu Bingyi will be staged in the Great Hall of the People on the 30th of this month, which will use the red revolutionary songs to evoke the audience's fond memories of the years when the guns were flying and the passions were burning.
Although we are all very familiar with the stirring and beautiful melodies of the red "songs" such as "Harbor Nights", "Little Way", and "Nanniwan", the anecdotes behind these red songs are little known.
The song is a touching one
Representative song: "Night at the Harbor"
Classic lyrics: "Farewell, dear Harbor, tomorrow morning we will set sail. The sky has just dawned, looking back at the pier, the blue handkerchiefs of our loved ones are waving.
Birth story: In August 1941, in order to create a beautiful and impressive song, the famous Soviet composer Solovyov Shedoi and the famous poet Churkin paced to the seashore breakwater.
At this time the sea fog, blue mist to the moonlight, to the sea water coated with a layer of hazy color. Not far from the anchorage, moored "Marty" minelayer, from the ship came the faint sound of the accordion ...... moonlight, a girl wearing a blue headscarf on the pier and a sailor whispered goodbye. This poetic scene, gave the composer and poet great creative inspiration, two days later, "Harbor Nights" was born.
The leader of the songwriters
Representative song: "Flower Girl"
Classic lyrics: "Sell flowers, sell flowers, please buy the beautiful red flowers, fragrant, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh. Fragrant, fresh Weiwei, beautiful bright red flowers ......
Birth story: There are countless people who are familiar with "The Girl Who Sells Flowers," but very few know that the song was originally written by the late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung.
According to Kim Il Sung's memoirs, he began to conceptualize the play "The Girl Who Sells Flowers" while in prison in Jilin in the 1930s. And Kim Il Sung after his release from prison in China's East Manchuria West into the Liaohe countryside to carry out revolutionary propaganda work, November 7, 1930, the 13th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia, Kim Il Sung will be "selling flowers girl" on the China West Manchuria Liaohe region of the village of Wujiazi three-star school auditorium, Hana Nyi in the 1930s, has sung the "selling flowers girl".
Remembering the old and praising the new
Representative song: "Nanniwan"
Classic lyrics: as ah today's Nanniwan, and ah in past years is not ordinary, and no longer the old model, is a good Jiangnan of the north of Shaanxi Province ......
Story of the birth of the story: in 1941, a deserted Nanniwan was built into a rich and beautiful "Shaanbei", and the city of Nanniwan is a beautiful place to live. The first time I saw this, I had to go to the hospital to get a prescription for a new medication.
At that time, the famous composer Marco and the poet He Jingzhi, who were studying in the Lu Yi class, also went to Nanniwan to participate in the opening up of the barren land, burning charcoal, and experienced the hard construction of "sleeping badly, mosquitoes biting everywhere, reaching out to grab a handful, I don't know how many". After seeing the radical changes in Nanniwan, Marco and He Jingzhi were very excited, and the creative inspiration was like a spring, which created the half-century-old "Nanniwan" in one fell swoop.
Relay creation type
Representative song: "March of the Volunteer Army"
Classic lyrics: Get up, people who do not want to be slaves, our flesh and blood, build our new Great Wall ......
Birth story: "March of the Volunteer Army" began as the theme song of the movie "Sons and Daughters of the Stormy Clouds". The playwright Tian Han was thrown into prison as soon as he finished the movie script. In his haste, Tian Han wrote the draft of the March of the Volunteer Army on a piece of tinfoil and asked Xia Yan to give Nie Er this valuable cigarette tinfoil. Nie Er risked being caught at any time to keep it with him, and with the help of his revolutionary comrades, he traveled to Japan to work on the March of the Volunteers, finally completing what would later become the national anthem, the March of the Volunteers.
Battle Evolution Type
Representative Song: "March of the Big Sword"
Classic Lyrics: The big sword cuts at the heads of the devils, brothers of the Twenty-ninth Army, the day of resistance has come, the day of resistance has come ......
Birth Story: After the Japanese invaded the three provinces of the East. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a battle, and the first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a battle, and I was in the middle of a battle, and I was in the middle of a battle. The battle of Xifengkou was the first time the devils tasted the power of the big knife, the Chinese army achieved the "September 18th" Incident since the first victory against the Japanese invasion. 23-year-old composer Mai Xin was infected by the heroic deeds of the Big Dagger Team, and wrote the most enjoyable anti-Japanese song --- "Big Dagger March" in a single breath. -The Big Dagger March. Wen/Rats