The Fifteenth Moon expresses the border soldiers' longing for their hometowns and their wives and children.
The Fifteenth Moon can be divided into three parts, each of which consists of eight bars, all of which are two phrases. The first part of the 8 bars, the tone of the northern folk tone of the material, simple and smooth, euphemistic and moving, the mood in the scene to express the border warriors to the hometown of longing for their wives and children.
The next 8 subsections: "You guard the cradle of the baby, I patrol the border of the motherland; you cultivate the farmland in your hometown, I am on duty at the border", with the tone of declaring the different situations of the husband and wife in the bright moonlit night, in contrast to the "hometown" and "border", the "hometown" and "border", and the "border". In the contrast, "hometown" and "border", "wife" and "husband" are skillfully linked into one.
Expanded:
Background
One day in 1984, when lyricist Shi Xiang went to Hebei Province to talk with troops about what kind of songs soldiers like, a company commander wanted him to write a song about soldiers' wives. At first, Shi Xiang had a hard time deciding how to address his wife, calling her "wife" was too old-fashioned, and calling her "darling" or "sweetheart" was too trendy;
Till the lights went out in the evening, he pushed the window open and said, "I don't want to hear this song, but I want to hear it! But I wish for a long time, a thousand miles of **** Canyuan Juan". A bright moon in the sky, husband and wife look at each other, you also miss, I also miss, so Shi Xiang will use "you", "I" to solve the problem of personification, feeling, and soon finished writing the lyrics of the "fifteenth moon".
One day after that, when Shi Xiang was practicing in the morning, he met the composer Tie Yuan by chance and recited the lyrics to Tie Yuan, who clapped and praised him after listening to it and hoped to compose for the song. After returning to his room, Tie Yuan created the sheet music for the song in two days, and then Tie Yuan asked the composer Xu Xiyi to revise and improve the sheet music.