This year marks the 60th anniversary of the anti-fascist war and the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and the red tide has swept the Beijing stage again. Among them, "Salute to that Great Era" led by Dong Wenhua and Liu Bingyi will be staged in the Great Hall of the People on 30th of this month. It will use red revolutionary songs to arouse the audience's good memories of the years when the flames of war and passion were burning.
Although the passionate and beautiful melodies of red "famous songs" such as Night in the Harbor, Alley and Nanniwan are familiar to everyone, the anecdotes behind these red songs are little known.
Touch the scene and make a song.
Representative song: "Night in the Harbor"
Classic lyrics: Ah, farewell, dear harbor, tomorrow morning we will set sail. As dawn dawned, I looked back at the dock and my relatives' blue handkerchiefs were flying.
Birth story: 194 1 August, Solovyov-Sedoi, a famous composer and poet of the former Soviet Union, strolled on the breakwater by the sea in order to create a beautiful and touching song.
At this time, there was fog on the sea, and the blue mist painted a hazy color on the moonlight and the sea. Not far from the anchorage, the "Marty" mine-laying ship was moored, and there was a faint accordion sound from the ship ... In the moonlight, a girl wearing a blue headscarf whispered goodbye to a sailor on the dock. This poetic scene greatly inspired composers and poets. Two days later, Night in the Harbor was born.
Leadership operation type
Representative song: "Flower Girl"
Classic lyrics: sell flowers, sell flowers, please buy beautiful big red flowers. Delicious, delicious, beautiful, bright red flowers ...
Birth story: There are countless people who are familiar with Flower Girl, but few people know that this song is the original work of the late Kim Il Sung of North Korea.
According to Kim Il Sung's memoirs, in the 1930s, he began to conceive the drama Flower Girl in Jilin Prison. After Kim Il Sung was released from prison, he carried out revolutionary propaganda work in rural areas of Liaohe, China. On the anniversary of 1930 165438 and the anniversary of the Russian October Revolution 13 on October 7, Kim Il Sung moved Flower Girl to the auditorium of Samsung School in Wujiazi Village, Liaohe District, Ximan, China. Hua Ni had sung "Flower Girl" in 1930s.
Recall the past and praise the new type
Representative song: Nanniwan
Classic lyrics: Like Nanniwan today, it is different from previous years, and it is not what it used to be, but northern Shaanxi is better than southern China. ...
Birth story: 194 1 year, this barren land of Nanniwan was built into a rich and beautiful "South of Northern Shaanxi".
At that time, the famous composer Kyle and the poet He Jingzhi, who were studying in Lu Yiban, also went to Nanniwan to open up wasteland and burn charcoal, and personally experienced the arduous construction of "sleeping badly, mosquitoes biting everywhere, reaching for it, I don't know how many". After seeing Nanniwan which has undergone earth-shaking changes, Kyle and He Jingzhi were very excited and inspired to create Nanniwan which has been sung for half a century.
Relay creation type
Song Representative: march of the volunteers
Classic lyrics: Get up, people who don't want to be slaves, and build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood. ...
Birth story: March of the Volunteers was originally the theme song of the movie "The Son of the Storm". As soon as the playwright Tian Han finished writing the script, he was thrown into prison. In desperation, Tian Han wrote March of the Volunteers on a piece of tin foil and asked Xia Yan to give Nie Er this precious cigarette tin foil. Nie Er risked being caught at any time and stayed with him. With the help of revolutionary comrades, he went to Japan to create March of the Volunteers, and finally completed March of the Volunteers, which later became the national anthem.
Activity evolution type
Representative Song: March of the Sword
Classic lyrics: the sword is cut on the head of the devil. Brothers of the 29th Army, the days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression have come, and the days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression have come. ...
Birth story: After the Japanese invaders invaded the three northeastern provinces, the officers and men of the 29th Army led by Song made their own broadswords and set up a "broadsword team". Xifengkou's World War I devils tasted the power of broadsword for the first time, and China's army won the first victory against Japanese aggression since the September 18th Incident. Laura Mai, a 23-year-old composer, was infected by the heroic deeds of the broadsword team and wrote the most enjoyable anti-Japanese song-March of the Broadsword in one go. Text /lynx