Xian Xinghai's life experience is rich and hard. In his short life of 40 years, he experienced the transformation from the son of an ordinary poor boatman to a musician and then to a proletarian revolutionary. The reason why Xian Xinghai can reach a higher realm of life is directly related to his own experience, ability, pursuit of ideological realm, and his own personality and style. Xian Xinghai's personality quality can be summarized as follows:
(1) Perseverance and self-improvement. This is the most prominent feature of Xian Xinghai's personality. Xian Xinghai lives in an era when the Chinese nation is at home and abroad, and the misfortune of the nation makes the life of every family in China more difficult. Xian Xinghai's father died early when he was a child, and he only relied on his mother to do odd jobs to support his family. This is the epitome of the life of millions of families in China at the beginning of last century. However, Xian Xinghai didn't give up his pursuit of ideals because of his poor family and lack of food and clothing. He has developed a hard-working lifestyle since he was a child, and has developed the qualities of fortitude, tenacity and self-improvement. Therefore, he was able to motivate himself to write the world-famous The Yellow River Cantata under the circumstances of insufficient food, malnutrition and illness.
(2) aim high. Being a man should be ambitious, which is a very important part of China's traditional cultural concept. Confucius taught more than two thousand years ago.
Statue of Xian Xinghai
His disciples are people who "cultivate one's morality to respect", "cultivate one's morality to protect people" and "cultivate one's morality to protect people" Zhang Wei, a neo-Confucian in Ming Dynasty, believed that the ideal moral personality should be "preaching and teaching to solve doubts". These ancient teachings have inspired generations of children born in poverty to pursue their ideals and become the pillars of the country. This ideal moral personality is also well reflected in Xian Xinghai. Although Xian Xinghai was born in poverty, he was ambitious. His ideal in life is to create China's symphony and make China a world music power. In order to realize his life ideal, he went to France to work and study alone, and his life was hard. He fainted several times because of hunger, but he did not hesitate, and finally he was admitted to the Paris Conservatory of Music, which took a solid step for the realization of his ideal.
(3) Seeking truth and being pragmatic. Xian Xinghai's pragmatic style is mainly reflected in his academic style: first, correctly judge and grasp the realistic needs of China's mass culture, and create a creative road of China's mass revolutionary music; The second is to explore the road of folk music creation with distinctive national characteristics and accepted by the people. During the five years from 1935 to 1940, Xian Xinghai composed hundreds of anti-Japanese war songs, which injected strong spiritual impetus into the national liberation movement. If a composer's works want to be accepted by the people, he must adopt the music language familiar to the people. Xian Xinghai digs deeply into the national music language, and his works have distinctive national characteristics, which are accepted and loved by the people.