The songwriters of the opera Honghu Red Guard are Zhang Jing'an and Uncle Ouyang Qian.
The songwriters of the opera Honghu Red Guard are Zhang Jing'an and Uncle Ouyang Qian. The opera "Honghu Red Guard" (written by Zhu Benhe and others, and co-written with Ouyang Qianshu) was composed in 1959 and premiered in October of the same year. The opera successfully borrowed and used the compositional methods of Chinese opera and Western music, with a beautiful and lyrical melody and a strong local color.
Songs such as "The Water of Honghu Lake, Waves Beat Waves", "Seeing the Liberation of All the World's Hardworking People" and "It's Hard to Open Your Mouth When You're Singing a Little Song" were widely sung throughout the country. The opera "Honghu Red Guard" tells the story of the local revolutionary armed forces in the Honghu area of Hubei province during the domestic revolutionary war in the summer of 1930, led by Han Ying and Liu Bao, who skillfully maneuvered with the enemy and dealt a painful blow to the enemy by using the lake area.
Honghu Red Guard
Honghu Red Guard is a war film co-produced by Beijing Film Studio and Wuhan Film Studio,[1] directed by Xie Tim, Chen Fangqian, and Xu Feng, with a screenplay by Zhang Jing'an and Mei Shao-shan, and starring Wang Yuzhen, Xia Kui-bin, Fu Ling, Xie Tim, and Chen Ren-xuan in the lead roles, and was released in 1961 on the Chinese Mainland China.
Adapted from an opera of the same name by the Hubei Provincial Experimental Opera Troupe (today's Hubei Provincial Opera and Dance Theater),[1] the film tells the story of Han Ying (Wang Yuzhen), a secretary of the township party branch, who leads the Honghu Red Guard in a grueling fight against the enemy and defends the red power of the Xiang'e West Revolutionary Base in the 1930s.