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.
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.
Xian Xinghai is another great people musician after Nie Er in the history of modern music in China. He adhered to and developed the revolutionary music tradition since Nie Er, with wider themes and genres and richer artistic techniques.
It profoundly reflects the great reality of China's people's revolution and national liberation, and has created a series of musical works with strong spirit of the times, distinctive national style and originality, which have had a wide and lasting influence among the people.
Xian Xinghai (1905.6.13-1945.10.30), male, formerly known as Huang Xun and Kong Yu, was born in Panyu, Guangdong (now He Lan Town, Nansha District, Guangzhou), and was a famous composer and pianist in modern China.