& lt Ode to the Yellow River, also known as The Yellow River Cantata, is a group of poems written by the famous poet Zhang Guangnian to cooperate with the large-scale national symphony created by musician Xian Xinghai. In Ode to the Yellow River, the poet uses symbolism, ostensibly praising the Yellow River, but actually praising our nation, inspiring Chinese sons and daughters to be "great and strong" like the Yellow River and defending the Yellow River and China with heroism and strong determination. Her melody is passionate, the music is majestic, magnificent, passionate and deep, full of strong impact and shock, which shows the unruly blood of the Yellow River and the heroic spirit of the Chinese nation and praises the majestic momentum and long history of the Yellow River.

Guang William. J's deeds before his death

1927 participated in the first revolutionary civil war in his hometown, and joined the Communist Youth League of China in the same year. After the failure of this revolution, I worked as a shop apprentice, a bookstore clerk and a primary school teacher.

/kloc-joined China * * * in 0/929, and later lost the party's organizational relationship because the organization in northern Hubei was destroyed.

Since 1930s, he has been engaged in progressive drama and literary activities.

1936, the lyrics "Flowers in May" were published in Wuhan, praising anti-Japanese patriots and opposing treason and surrender. After Yan Shushi composed music, he was widely sung in the anti-Japanese and national salvation activities.

1937 rejoined China.

1938, his Street Drama was published.

1939 65438+ 10, led the third team of anti-Japanese drama from Shanxi anti-Japanese guerrilla zone to Yan 'an.

In March of the same year, he created a group of poems, The Yellow River Cantata. Composed by people's musician Xian Xinghai, it was first staged in Yan 'an in April. Since then, it has been widely sung all over the country and warmly welcomed by the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians. This set of poems is magnificent and profound. It is a heroic poem of the Chinese nation against foreign aggression, and it is also a tragic picture of the reality of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression era. It reflects the unprecedented awakening of the people and shows strong national integrity and indomitable spirit of struggle.

In art, the whole poem is well conceived and beautifully laid out. Taking the Yellow River as the symbol of the Chinese nation as the image of running has created a surging passion and made the whole poem show great strength. At the same time, due to the poet's absorption and reference of China's traditional poetry expression techniques, the poetry group has a lively rhythm and concise language.

1940 Engaged in literary and artistic activities in Chongqing and wrote a long narrative poem Qu Yuan. Under the white terror, he expressed the people's strong demands of persisting in the war of resistance, opposing surrender, separatism and retrogression in the form of poems. After the "Southern Anhui Incident", he was forced to leave Myanmar to join overseas Chinese cultural circles and overseas Chinese youth in anti-fascist cultural activities.

He returned to Yunnan in 1942, and from March 1943 to September 1944, he wrote a long narrative poem "Song of the Assisi" based on popular folk songs, and at the same time wrote a long lyric poem "Green Irava Bottom".

From 65438 to 0944, Guang William. J, Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo engaged in the democratic movement and poetry reading activities in Yunnan.

1945 10 was persecuted by the Kuomintang government and left Kunming. The following year, he entered the Liberated Area of North China from Beiping, and successively presided over the teaching work in the Art College of North University and the College of Literature and Art of North China University. Since the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Guang Weiran has been engaged in literary and artistic activities in Beijing. He has successively served as the editor-in-chief of Movie Script, Wen Yi Newspaper and People's Literature, and has written a lot of literary criticism under his signature. These articles are rigorous in argumentation and free and easy in style, and dare to express their opinions in the face of major literary and artistic phenomena. They wrote articles on the anti-historicism tendency of historical dramas and divine dramas, realism and socialist realism in the inheritance of traditional operas, and actively explored the creation of new poems, which promoted the prosperity of China's new poetry creation with their own creative practice and theoretical research. On February 30th, 1984 and 1984 gave a keynote speech entitled "Great strides in socialist literature" at the fourth general meeting of the Chinese Writers Association. He is the author of a collection of essays, Realism in Drama (1957), Literary Debate Collection (1958) and Talk about Wind and Rain (1982). Since the founding of New China, Guang Weiran has published a collection of poems, including Mayflower (1960), which contains more than 30 masterpieces of the author before and after liberation, including Qu Yuan, The Yellow River Cantata, Sanmenxia Chorus and other famous works. Other works not included are the political lyric poem Grand Festival of the Revolutionary People, Soul-stirring 1976 and the long narrative poem Hero Drilling Team. Bright poetry is full of passion and majestic momentum, and is good at containing a difficult and sudden torrent of the times with gorgeous images.

Guang William. J used to be the secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association and the party secretary of the Chinese Writers Association. And was elected as the third and fifth NPC deputies. He is currently a member of the China Central Advisory Committee and vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association.

He died at 6: 00/KOOC-0/October 28th, 2002/KOOC-0.

Composer of Xian Xinghai Yellow River Choir

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