Classic Old Songs Red Songs Recommendation

"Unity is Strength"

Written by Mu Hong and composed by Lu Su, the song was written in June 1943 in a small village in Huangni District, Pingshan County, Jinchahi Border Region. In order to oppose the Japanese invaders who came to the border area to seize grain and carry out the crazy policy of "robbing, killing and burning everything", the Northwest Frontier Service Corps went deep into the vast countryside of Pingshan in Hebei Province and Fanshi in Shanxi Province to take part in the struggle. In order to cooperate with this struggle, Mu Hong, together with Comrade Lu Su, composed a small opera "Unity is Strength" in about three or four days on the spur of the moment.

2. "Battle Song of the Strong Army"

is a song with lyrics by Wang Xiaoling and music by Yin Qing, sung by Yan Weiwen and released in 2013. Yan Weiwen sang the song at the 2015 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and PLA officers and soldiers sang the song at the parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and Victory in the World Anti-Fascist War.

3. "When That Day Comes"

It is one of the best works in the collection and selection of "Fighting Spirit Formation Songs" carried out by the General Political Department of the PLA in 2005. As an uplifting and morale-boosting military song, it unreservedly shows the valiant and heroic spirit of our PLA.

4. "Ten Send the Red Army"

The folk song comes from Xixiangjie (Two Rivers Mouth), which is on the border between Zhenba and Tongjiang in Sichuan. Xixiangjie (Lianghekou) was the first town where the Red Army entered Sichuan, and it was the first county soviet - Chibei County soviet government - established by the Red Army in the creation of soviets in Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces.

5. "Red Star Song"

In the summer of 1973, Wu Dawei and Wei Baoqiu were invited by the famous composer Fu Gengchen of the Bayi Film Studio to write the lyrics of the theme song for the movie "Shining Red Star". A year later, the theme song "Red Star Song" quickly became a hit in the motherland.

Red Song

"Red Song" is not an abstract revolutionary slogan, let alone a mere political symbol. It has been widely circulated and enduring, first and foremost because of its unique artistic appeal.

The source of the "Red Song" is folk songs, which determines its popularity among the common people. From the Jiangxi folk songs during the Jinggangshan period and the "Letters to the Gods" during the Yan'an period to the full of pride during the liberation of the motherland and the reform and opening up, the folk songs of different regions in different periods constitute the diversified styles of the Red Songs, and the people of different regions and nationalities can be heard in the Red Songs, and the people of different regions and nationalities can be heard in the Red Songs. "People from different regions and nationalities can find their own tones in the Red Song. This makes the "Red Song" have a broad mass base.