Nie Er (19 12- 1935), formerly known as Nie Shouxin, was a musician in China and composed by March of the Volunteers. He composed dozens of revolutionary songs, and his series of works influenced China music for decades. His music creation has a distinct sense of the times, serious ideology, high national spirit and outstanding artistic creativity, which points out the direction for the development of proletarian revolutionary music in China and sets an example for Chinese music creation. His main works are as follows:

1932: March (harpsichord), Waltz, Family Love (Chorus)

1933: Mining songs, Hungry and Cold songs and selling newspaper songs.

1934: Out of the shooting studio, a female star, Xuefeihua, Yuhu Chunxiao, a female star, Xuefeihua, Yuhu Chunxiao, Snake Dance, Zhao Jun and Fan, and the voice of selling newspapers.

1935: Composed music for March of the Volunteers, and then went to Japan to study in order to avoid the pursuit of the Kuomintang government. Other representative works include Farewell to Nanyang, Spring Comes Back, Song of Comfort, Melody of Mei Niang, Song of Escape, Village Girl beyond the Great Wall, Song of Picking Ling in the Yangtze River, Song of Singing Girl under Iron Shoes, March of the Volunteers, Untitled (Thunder) and coolies and the wounded.

Nie Er was the first revolutionary to compose the Chinese national anthem. The first composer to write songs for the Chinese nation and the working people in China, and to shape the image of the proletariat in China; The first film musician to arouse people with film music, to build the Great Wall of flesh and blood, and to convey revolutionary ideals in the form of mass songs; The first one created the image of working women in China in the form of artistic songs; The first composer to call for a new China in the form of nursery rhymes.