What year is the song "The East is Red and the Sun is Rising"?

In the winter of 1943, Li Youyuan, a peasant singer from Jiaxian County (now Jiaxian County) in Shaanxi Province, wrote a folk song called "Immigrant Song" with more than 10 verses according to the tune of "Riding the White Horse".

In 1944, the song was renamed Dongfanghong (The East is Red) and published in the XX Daily.

In 1964, the large-scale revolutionary music and dance epic "The East is Red" was organized to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the founding of the country, and it was this song that served as the opening song.

The now-passing chorus "The East is Red" was written by the famous composer Li Lax Zhi.