1940 was in the hard years of the Anti-Japanese War; not long after the establishment of Yimeng Anti-Japanese Base, the Japanese invaders often 'swept through', and the intransigent faction headed by the Kuomintang's Linyi Commissioner, Zhang Riyuan, also sabotaged the Anti-Japanese Base from time to time.
They used the local reactionary force, the Huangsha Society, to confront our anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians. In order to remove the anti-Japanese obstacles, our Feidong Work Committee and the administrative office, to the members of the Huangsha Association to do a lot of hard and meticulous political education work, but due to the reactionary faction's tight control, all failed to work. In the end, our army had to decide to use force to solve.
In early June 1940, according to the orders of the higher authorities, the First Branch of the Anti-University of China took part in the anti-obstructive battle in the area of Yizhuang Nanshan in the Linyi area of Shandong. Li Lin and Ruan Ruoshan, the head of the school's literary troupe, were ordered by Yuan Chenglong, the director of the troupe, to write a song called "Against the Huangsha Meeting" (the predecessor of the "Yimeng Mountain Minor Ditty") with the help of local flower-drum tunes in Baishiyu Village in Feixian County.
This song played an outstanding role in disintegrating the enemy, educating the masses, and inspiring the fighting spirit of our army during the political offensive phase of the anti-obstinacy campaign, and was praised by the leaders and the general public.
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Development History
After the founding of the PRC, revolutionary literary fighters from the Bohai District renewed the words and finalized the score of the "Yimeng Mountain Minor Ditty" to finalize it. Bohai People's Literary Troupe and Bohai Military and Political Literary Troupe as the representative of the Bohai Revolutionary Literary and Artistic Fighters, penetrated into the masses, and carried out an extensive collection of Bohai folk music including folk songs, folk operas and folk instrumental music, which included many folk ditties, including the predecessor of "Yimeng Mountain Ditty".
In May 1950, after the Bohai District was abolished, Li Guangzong, Li Ruiyun, Wang Yinquan, Wang Yixuan and others of the former Bohai Military Civilian Troupe were transferred to the Shandong Military District Civilian Troupe. They continued to work with folk music in their new positions and made important contributions to the stereotypical singing and popularity of the "Yimeng Mountain Ditty".
Shandong People's Publishing House published in June 1957, Shandong Folk Songs Collection, including Li Guangzong, Li Ruiyun, Wang Yinquan three people collected and composed and adapted the song "Yimeng Mountain Ditty". At this point, after the revolutionary literary workers from the Bohai Sea area *** with the efforts, "Yimeng Mountain ditty" was finalized.
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