Songwriter of the song "The East is Red" is Li Youyuan, Gongmu , and Li Lax Zhi
Li Youyuan was a peasant singer. Li Youyuan, a peasant singer, was born in Jizhou, Shaanxi (now Jiaxian, Shaanxi), from a poor peasant family who could not afford to study, and at the age of 13, he learned the Hundred Surnames, the Thousand Character Classic and the Three Character Classic in the winter study room in the village where his grandmother lived. Thereafter, he took the opportunity of going to the county town to pick dung to listen to lectures at the County Higher Primary School and took the initiative of boiling water, sweeping the yard, sifting ashes for the school and obtaining spectatorship. Singing folk songs, singing rice-planting songs, y loved by teachers. 1942 winter, the use of northern Shaanxi folk song "riding a white horse" tune, sang "the East is red, 1952, Li participated in the Shaanxi Provincial Literary and Artistic Creation Representatives Conference, won awards, medals and prizes, and known as the "people's singers". "People's Singer".
Gong Mu (1910-1998), formerly known as Zhang Yongnian, also known as Zhang Songfu and Zhang Songru, with pen names such as Gongmu and Munong, a native of Xinji City, Hebei Province, was a famous Chinese poet, scholar and educator, and the author of the lyrics of "Hymn to the Heroes" and "The March of the Eighth Route Army". The March of the Eighth Route Army was renamed the March of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1965, and on July 25, 1988, it was confirmed by the Central Military Commission of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) as the PLA's military anthem.
Li Huanzhi is a composer. Originally from Jinjiang County, Fujian Province. From childhood, he was exposed to the folk music of Guangdong and Fujian, and practiced singing hymns and playing the organ in the choir of the Christian Church.
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After the song was compiled, it was sung by Li Zengzheng, the nephew of Li Youyuan and a peasant singer, many times in folk and mass gatherings, and was very popular. Subsequently, Yan'an literature and art workers organized and deleted the Immigrant Song into three stanzas and renamed it Oriental Red, which was published in the Liberation Daily in 1944. After the liberation, in order to adapt to the performance of professional chorus, a number of composers have adapted it to chorus, and the now-passed chorus "The East is Red" was written by the famous composer Li Lax Zhi.
"The East is Red" is an ode created during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to express the people's heartfelt gratitude to their leader, Chairman Mao Zedong, and to the Chinese ****production party. Over the years, this hymn has become more and more popular with the liberation of China, with the gradual prosperity and strength of the new China, and with the people's increasing love for Chairman Mao and the ****production party. In the Cultural Revolution, "The East is Red" was sung by almost everyone, and became "the solemn anthem of the Great Leader Chairman Mao", as well as the de facto national anthem, which was only used when greeting foreign guests. The national anthem was only used to welcome foreign guests. At major meetings and rallies, "The East is Red" was played.
In 1964, the large-scale revolutionary music and dance epic "The East is Red", organized by Premier Zhou Enlai to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, opened with this song.