The boat pushes away the waves.
The sea reflects the beautiful white tower,
surrounded by green trees and red walls.
The boat is gently floating in the water
A cool wind is blowing in front of it.
The red scarf was in the sun,
The sun was on the sea,
The fish in the water looked at us,
and listened quietly to our happy song.
The boat was gently floating in the water
A cool wind was blowing in front of us.
After the day's work is done,
Let's have some fun,
I ask you, dear fellow,
Who gave us a happy life.
The boat is gently, gently floating in the water
A cool wind is blowing in front of us.
[Edit Paragraph]Brief Analysis
This song can be said to be a hit in the fifties in China, and it can be said that no one knows it, no one knows it, no one doesn't like it.
It is actually an interlude in the movie feature film "Flowers of the Motherland". The movie was produced by Changchun Film Studio in 1955, and was the first children's movie in "New China".
That is to say, in terms of creation, this song is specially customized for "Flowers of the Motherland", and it must be attached to the story of the film itself, in order to have more value and significance. But because the lyrics themselves are not very "directional", and are very sunny and express a lyrical mood, they are loved and welcomed by the people, and it is inevitable that they will be circulated.
The theme of the song is very clear - "I ask you, my dear fellow, who arranged for us to live happily ever after".
The answer to this is, I think, without using your brain: the Chinese ****-producing party has arranged a happy life for us.
[Editor's note]Author's introduction
QIAO Yu (1927~ )
A native of Jining, Shandong. Formerly known as Qingbao. He is a famous lyricist, and is known as the "Titan of Lyrics" in China.
In 1946, he was admitted to the College of Arts of North University. In 1946, he was admitted to the Art College of the North University.
After the founding of New China in 1949, he worked as a writer for the Central Academy of Drama, the Chinese Dramatists Association and the Script Writing Office of the Ministry of Culture.
After 1977, he served as vice president and president of the China Opera and Dance Theater, director of the fourth session of the Chinese Drama Association, president of the Chinese Society of Music and Literature, and director of the China Center for International Cultural Exchange. Member of the Eighth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Qiao Yu's creation and the times synchronization, in the 1950s, he authored the film literary script "Liu Sanjie", "Red Child", lyrics "my motherland", "peony song", "people say Shanxi good scenery", "let us swing oars" and other household names in China. 80's, China's implementation of reform and opening up, Qiao Yu created the "heart of the rose", "Unforgettable Night", "Missing", "Saying", "I love you", "I love you", "I love you", "I love you", "I love you", "I love you", "I love you", "I love you", "I love you".
Qiao Yu's lyrics, such as "Rose in the Heart", "Unforgettable Tonight", "Missing", "Talking about Liaozhai", "Goddess of Wushan", "Sunset", "Love My China", "Ode to the Motherland" and so on, expressed the voice of the people of China in the new era, and thus his works were widely circulated, and became the classics sung by the people.
Qiao Yu representative works: "my motherland", "people say Shanxi good scenery", "let us swing the oars", "the rose in the heart", "unforgettable night", "love my China" and so on.
Liu Chih (1921~1998)
Formerly known as Liu Deyin, composer. He was a native of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. He studied drumming with folk artists at an early age, and in 1939, he studied composition under Xian Xinghai at Yan'an Lu Yi, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he furthered his studies at the Central Conservatory of Music, and later became the deputy head of the Coal Mine Literary and Industrial Troupe. His works include opera music, 10 pieces of chorus and movie music, as well as other small and medium-sized musical works. The famous ones are opera "Ashima", chorus "Ode to the Motherland", songs "My Motherland" (episode of the movie "Shangganling"), "Wind and Smoke Rolling and Singing Heroes" (episode of the movie "Heroic Sons and Daughters"), "Let's Swing the Oars" (episode of the movie "The Flowers of the Motherland"), and dance music "Dance of Lotus Flower", and so on.
Works:
Opera has "White-haired Girl" (one of the authors of the song), "Rent Reduction Society", "Orchard Sisters", "Shepherd Girl" (with others), "Fire", "Ashima", etc.; the movie music "Shaanbei Shepherd's Song", "Shangganling", "The Flowers of the Motherland", "Storm", "Heroic Sons and Daughters", "Dadu River", "Which is my home", and so on; others are "Workers' Chorus", Border Warrior Chorus", "Ode to the Motherland", "Everyday Up", "Lotus Dance", "Pastoral Flute", the third and sixth sets of radio gymnastic music, orchestral "Lamentation" and so on. Children's chorus "Heroic Boys", "Swan Song", "Echoes in the Valley", "Blue Sky and Earth", "Golden Boat" and so on. His songs "Turnover Taoism", "Blossoms on the Cliffside", "Let's Swing the Oars", "We Plant Flowers on the Earth", "My Motherland", "Hymn to Heroes", "Xinjiang is Good", "Ode to the Motherland" and so on have been sung by several generations of people **** the same song, of which "Turnover Taoism", "Xinjiang is Good", "He Flower Dance" was awarded by the World Youth Gala Award. Flowers of the Motherland" won the movie music award. Let's Swing the Oars" won various national awards. My Motherland" won the first national Golden Record Award. Ode to the Motherland" has become one of the compulsory songs for various celebrations. The newly composed "Cradle of Guards" and "Miners are the Sun of Humanity" won the National Song Gold Award.
[Edit Paragraph] "Let's Swing Oars" is how to write
Author: Liu Chieh
Over the decades, I have written a lot of children's songs, the most unforgettable is to write "Let's Swing Oars" this song.
It was early July 1955, when the director of Changchun Film Studio led all the members of the film crew of "Flowers of the Motherland" and a large group of eleven- and twelve-year-old actors and actresses to the lower part of Wanshoushan Mountain, frolicked in the Summer Palace, and rowed on Kunming Lake, so as to let the children familiarize themselves with the environment in which they would be filmed, the feeling of being on the water, and the techniques and movements of rowing... ...I'm the author of this movie episode and came along with them.
I, for one, have been afraid of water since I was a kid. The kids got into the boat, but I stood at the edge of the lake and had a hard time. At this time, the children enthusiastically shouted at me: "Liu Chih uncle, hurry up ah, open boat!" So I got into the boat. At first, I could only sit honestly, both hands grasping the side of the boat, do not dare to move. The children played really happy, playful, joyful, rowing, making noise, the lively and lovely demeanor infected me, so that I was fascinated, no longer afraid of water. I and the children water fights, boat races, take off your shoes and sit on the side of the boat to play water bubbles. The boat floated on the water, and people laughed in the boat. I, a middle-aged man, was like a child again. I observed the lake, the boat, the wind and the waves from a child's point of view in a child's state of mind, looking for the inner rhythm of the happy teenager in the song. When the boat was about to row near the bronze bull of the rhinoceros looking at the moon, I suddenly felt a specific musical phrase appear in my mind and pop up in my heart. I immediately told the kids rowing, "Pull over, pull over!" All three children stared at me with their eyes, "What's wrong with Uncle Liu Chih?" "The melody of the song is out, I have to write it down right away!" I said to the children.
I went ashore and sat on the stone where the rhinoceros looks at the moon, and it only took me 20 minutes to complete the solo and two-part chorus of Let's Swing the Oars, and another ten minutes or so to make some slight changes, and the song was finished. I asked the director to gather the kids together and sing the just-written tune to them, and they responded strongly, clapping their hands and saying, "That's so good, it sings what we were just feeling on the boat."
After the movie was released, the beautiful, lighthearted children's song spread throughout the country. Soon, it spread abroad, and later it was compiled into primary and secondary school music textbooks and won various awards. The song has been passed down until now, and some people in their forties and fifties, when singing "Let's Swing the Oars", recall the wonderful childhood days.