The Wind is Howling, the Horse is Barking, and the Yellow River is Roaring are the lyrics of Defending the Yellow River.
Lyrics: Guang Wei Ran (Zhang Guang Nian);
Composition: Xian Xing Hai;
The lyrics are:
The wind is howling, the horse is barking.
The Yellow River is roaring.
Ten thousand feet high in the mountain ranges west of the river, the sorghums are ripe north of the river east of the river.
There are so many anti-Japanese heroes in the ten thousand mountains.
In the green tent, the guerrilla warriors are heroic.
They have taken up their clay and foreign guns and wielded their swords and spears.
Defending their hometown, defending the Yellow River.
Defend North China, defend all of China.
The wind is howling, the horses are screaming.
The Yellow River is roaring.
Ten thousand feet high is the hillock in the west of the river, and the sorghum is ripe in the east of the river and the north of the river.
There are so many anti-Japanese heroes in the ten thousand mountains.
In the green tent, the guerrilla warriors are heroic.
They have taken up their clay and foreign guns and wielded their swords and spears.
Defending their hometown, defending the Yellow River.
Defend North China, defend all of China.
The wind is howling, the horses are screaming.
The Yellow River is roaring.
Ten thousand feet high is the hillock west of the river, east of the river and north of the river.
The sorghum is ripe, ten thousand hills.
There are so many anti-Japanese heroes, in the green tent.
The guerrilla fighters have been heroic, and they have taken up the clay and foreign guns.
Swinging their swords and spears, they defend their hometowns.
Defending the Yellow River and North China.
Defending all of China.
Expanded information:
Defense of the Yellow River is the seventh movement of the Yellow River Cantata by Guang Wei Ran and Xian Xing Hai was written during the Chinese War of Resistance against Japan. The song adopts the singing form of singing in unison and in rounds, which has a wide mass, and is a song widely spread by the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians. The song adopts folk percussion rhythm and Guangdong lion dance music melody as the material, which makes the song appear bright, bold and distinctive musical image, and has a strong national style.
The whole song adopts the style of marching song, with short beating, inspiring tones, loud battle cry, resounding rhythm, fast and big jumping motives and gradually expanding tone patterns, making the song full of power and feelings, and figuratively portraying the magnificent scene of the guerrilla fighters who picked up the clay and foreign rifles and wielded the big swords and lances, and fought for the defense of the Yellow River and the defense of the whole of China under the green tent and among the ten thousand mountains. The scene is a magnificent scene of the defense of the Yellow River and the whole of China.