"Singing the motherland" Wang Xin words and music.
"Singing of our beloved motherland, from now on towards prosperity and strength", after the establishment of new China, this sang the beautiful voice of many people who are full of hope for the future of the motherland.
On October 1, 1949, Comrade Wang Xin went to Beijing to participate in the ceremony of the founding of the new China, when Chairman Mao solemnly declared on the Tiananmen Square tower that "the Chinese people*** and the country was founded, the Chinese people stood up", Comrade Wang Xin was so excited that he was filled with tears, as a revolutionary music worker, composer, the most urgent wish at this moment. As a revolutionary music worker and composer, the most urgent wish at this moment is to express the feelings in his heart with music. Soon, he wrote a song with the title of Chairman Mao's solemn declaration on the Tiananmen Square tower that "the Chinese people have risen up", and in May, 1950, Tianjin Municipal Troupe of Sound Workers was established, with Wang Xin as the leader, and since then, he has performed for the troupe, and has created a large number of works.
One day in early September 1950, Comrade Wang Xin came to Tiananmen Square in Beijing again, at this time, the square has been prepared to meet the first anniversary of the founding of the country of a number of scenes: on the towers of the city, the workers are trying to hang the big red lanterns, the square, there are a few workers and students practicing to walk in line to prepare for the day of the National Day, to accept the leaders of the party and the state to parade, the brightly colored five-starred red flag in the fluttering!
After Wang Xin wrote the song "Singing the Motherland", he didn't rush to publish it. On the one hand, he gave it to the Tianjin Music Troupe, rehearsal singing, on the one hand, to the Nankai University, Tianjin Steelworks, Tianjin Textile Factory and Tianjin Railway Engine Section to teach singing, all aspects of the opinion, the public reaction is very strong, the poet Ai Qing that good is good, but a few of the lyrics are not ideal, and put forward the modification of opinions, that is, the "fifty years of cultural splendor" changed to "independence", and the first part of the "Singing the Motherland". He proposed to change the lyrics from "Fifty years of cultural splendor" to "Independence and freedom are our ideals", and from "We overcame all the sufferings and drove the enemy out of the frontier" to "We overcame how many sufferings before we got today's liberation". Wang Xin immediately absorbed his suggestion, and after the test of the masses and experts, Comrade Wang Xin copied it and submitted it to People's Daily. On September 15, 1951, People's Daily published the sheet music of Singing the Motherland, and the Central People's Broadcasting Station immediately invited the chorus of the Central Song and Dance Troupe to record the song and, in addition to broadcasting the song, made it into a record to the whole country. Since then, the song "Singing the Motherland" has been widely circulated in China. It is a must-teach song for modern students' ideological and political education.
Author information:
Wang Xin (1938- ): composer, formerly known as Wang Xinkeng, Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province, since childhood by the cultivation of folk music, love of music, and learn to play the flute and play the erhu. 1932, 14-year-old Wang Xin came to Shanghai, in the first Shi department store as a trainee clerk in 1935, by the people of Shanghai to set off anti-Japanese salvation patriotic movement. In 1935, he was influenced by the anti-Japanese and patriotic movement in Shanghai. In 1935, influenced by the anti-Japanese patriotic movement in Shanghai, Wang Xin became acquainted with left-wing progressive musicians such as Xian Xinghai, Lv Ji, Sun Shen, etc., and took part in the anti-Japanese and anti-redeeming song movement, and actively propagandized for the anti-Japanese in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, etc. In 1938, Wang Xin went to the holy land of the revolution, Yan'an, where he studied music at the Luxun Academy of Literature and Arts. When Xian Xinghai wrote "Yellow River Cantata" and rehearsed and performed it in "Luyi", Wang Xin was also the lead singer of Wang Laoshi in "Riverside Counterparts". After graduating from "Luyi" in 1937, Wang Xin started to work in the base area of Jinchaji, and then transferred to the Music Department of the United University of China as a teacher. From then on, he began his music creation career, and his works during this period included "Jinchahi" and "Rise of the Sun", etc. In 1942, Wang Xin began to work as the leader of the mass theater society. During the war of liberation, he composed a small opera "Baoshan Join the Army" and a large number of songs. In January 1949, Wang Xin led the comrades of the mass theater into the newly liberated city of Tianjin.