For many years, the author's wife, Luo Zhang, and daughter, Li Qing, have fresh memories of the creation process of "We are Walking on the Road", and the book "Red Musician-Robber" written by Huo Changhe, a professor of music department of Shenyang Normal University, has also been described in detail. Now, it can be completely confirmed that "We are Walking on the Road" was brewed in the spring and summer of 1962 and published in the spring of 1963.
An era has a song of an era, and an era has a musical melody of an era. It is no accident that the idea of "We are Walking on the Road", a husband robber, was conceived in the spring of 1962. At that time, the Republic had just bid farewell to three years of hardship. At that time, the robbers who were about to enter the "knowing destiny" were brewing and creating "We are on the Road", which was the dynamic reflection of the strongest voice of that era. This is the heart song and battle song of China people's determination to overcome natural and man-made disasters and build socialism on their own. Needless to say, the composer and the director of Shenyang Conservatory of Music were robbed during the three-year difficult period of the Republic. 1in the spring of 957, he put forward some critical opinions and suggestions on the literary and artistic work in the whole province during the "rectification" and "boasting", and was almost classified as "Rightist" later. /kloc-in the winter of 0/959, her husband, who was not very backward in the Great Leap Forward, was severely hit in the struggle against the right deviation and was classified as "having made a right deviation mistake". At that time, he was forced to do a "check-up" and had the idea that he might as well be an "ordinary person". The depression and depression also affected the song creation. He composed very few music works in those two years.
As the president of Shenyang Conservatory of Music and a people's composer, her husband's mood began to improve, and it rose again in the spring of 1962. 1962 65438+ 1017 February, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held an enlarged meeting of the central work called "meeting of 7,000 people" in Beijing, objectively and comprehensively summarized the work since the Great Leap Forward and established the policy of economic work centered on adjustment. Before and after the "7,000 People's Congress" was held, a group of cadres who were improperly or even wrongly criticized and punished in a series of political movements in that year, especially in the "anti-rightist rectification movement" in the winter of 1959, were generally identified and rehabilitated, and the problem of "committing right-wing mistakes" in the spring of 1962 was also identified in time. Seeing that after several years of hardships, the Republic began to fully restore national economic construction that year, I was extremely excited to rob my husband. He feels that the good style and revolutionary fighting spirit of the war years have returned. He believes that as a literary warrior trained by the Party for many years and a musician closely related to the people, we should write and sing the spirit of bringing the Party and the people back to life. In spring, when the sun and the east wind thaw and a hundred flowers blossom, the robber who continues to write Mao Zedong's poems feels that his heart is full of generosity and tragic beauty. At that time, he suddenly had a strong desire to write a marching song with high morale for the motherland and the people, and to write a war song that encouraged people to continue to forge ahead bravely, as in the war years. From then on, the words expressing the theme of this battle song began to hover in his mind, and the basic melody of singing this March surged in his chest.
It is not easy to express extremely complex emotions with brighter songs. Fu Jie's songs that eulogize the charm of the new era are not as smooth as some songs written in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's period. Besides, he is not sure whether such a song should be written or published. When spring went to summer, the robbers took advantage of their business trip to Beijing to tell their creative thoughts and ideas, as well as the initial "blank", to An Bo, an old comrade-in-arms who was then the president of the Victory Drama Club of the Rehe Military Region and then the Minister of Culture of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. Amber, a famous musician who once wrote the popular Yangko Opera "Brother and Sister Land Reclamation" in Yan 'an during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, was very infected and excited when she heard the words of robbing her husband, and immediately encouraged her to rob her husband, saying that his creative technique was right, and the song should still reflect the essence of the times. This strengthened the robber's confidence and courage in writing this song, which is still in its infancy. There is a coincidence. On the occasion of the robbery, the Northeast Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee decided to organize two cultural performances for Zhou Enlai and other parties and countries that are presiding over the industrial adjustment meeting in Shenyang, and called on Amber to return to Shenyang to prepare. A few days later, the robbers accompanied Amber back to Shenyang and met Premier Zhou Enlai at the performance site. He was invited by Zhou Enlai to his residence and talked for a long time in the dead of night. It should be said that it was a long talk with Zhou Enlai in the dead of night that gave birth to the song creation of the hijacker "We are Walking on the Road". According to relevant personnel's recollection, in late spring and early summer of 1962, Zhou Enlai, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Premier of the State Council, led some ministries and commissions from the State Council to Shenyang, and held a meeting with leading comrades of the Northeast Bureau and the three northeastern provinces from May 29th. After the meeting, Zhou Enlai and others went to Jilin and Heilongjiang to inspect industrial production in order to implement the spirit of the "7,000-person meeting" and further implement the central government's eight-character policy of "adjustment, consolidation, enrichment and improvement".
Two cultural performances were held at the end of the industrial adjustment meeting. On the evening of June 14 of the same year, Zhou Enlai was not satisfied after watching a song and dance evening with a concert as the main form of Liaoning literary and art workers. He invited Amber, who accompanied him to the show, and the robbers whom Amber introduced to meet him at the meeting place, to the Northridge Rest House. Having a simple dinner, Zhou Enlai had a long talk with them for hours. During the conversation, Zhou Enlai, who shoulders the heavy responsibility of getting the national economy out of trouble, was particularly excited. He told two musicians about the severe economic situation facing the country at that time, bluntly saying that the Soviet Union tore up the agreement and withdrew experts. At that time, he was very excited and said, you should believe that the party and the country have the ability and strength to lead the people of the whole country to overcome difficulties and move on, and everyone should be full of confidence in this. This conversation lasted until two or three o'clock in the morning. Because it was early in the morning, Amber and the robber stayed in Beiling sanatorium after listening to Zhou Enlai's conversation. The hijacker was very excited after listening to the conversation of the Prime Minister of the Republic. He was still sleepy when he arrived at the impromptu room. He told Amber many times that Premier Zhou's talk was a great education and inspiration to him. He must take Premier Zhou's talking spirit as the purpose, praise the courage and spirit of China people to hold their heads high, inspire the national spirit and overcome all natural disasters and hardships, and decide to put what Premier Zhou said. It is said that just when they stayed up all night, the robber set the basic song title and theme of "We are Walking on the Road".
All kinds of situations show that Zhou Enlai's late-night conversation with the Party and the country was unexpected, and the hijackers' creation of We Walk on the Road was not overnight. However, the creation of "We are Walking on the Road" has become a particularly serious and elaborate music work. That year, while pondering the lyrics of "We Walk on the Avenue" repeatedly, the robbers absorbed nutrition from the poems of Mao Zedong that were being created, and in that winter, they successfully created songs such as "Children of Havana" by Mu Qing, which coordinated with the development and changes of the international and domestic situation. According to 1983 Lin Chengdun's article "We Walk on the Avenue" in the second issue of Music Life, the title and the first lyric of the first draft of "We Walk on the Broad Avenue" are both long sentences, which are not concise, eye-catching and eye-catching as a song title. At that time, when the robber was auditioning at home, someone asked him if he could make the sentence simpler. Later, after many revisions, the robber removed the adjective "broad" and refined the title and the first sentence into "We are walking on the road", which made the title of the song appear unusually clear and loud, and the melody of the first sentence could gush out, magnificent and energetic. In the spring of 1963, the robbers wrote some songs praising Lei Feng, and the creation of "We Walk on the Road" finally matured and stood out. After repeated revision and concise practice, he added a chorus that emphasized the theme and momentum, sang it repeatedly by himself, and solicited opinions for revision. After he felt that he could submit the manuscript satisfactorily, he got the relevant newspapers in the province and took it to Beijing to give it to Song magazine. Famous musicians and others made a little consideration and revision, mainly changing "In front of us" to "Revolutionary Team Led by Chairman Mao", which was published in Song magazine soon. The catchy and easy-to-remember segmented song "We Walk on the Road" was immediately warmly welcomed and heartily loved by the broad masses of the people, and soon spread all over the motherland. "We are Walking on the Road" naturally became a popular mass song sung by people for a long time in those years. After the publication of "We are Walking on the Road", Zhou Enlai and some central leading comrades paid special attention to the song creation of "Stealing the Husband". On April 1966, the husband robber saw Premier Zhou Enlai again. At that time, a strong earthquake occurred in Xingtai, Hebei. The robber and his wife Luo Zhang, together with the military lyricist Hong Yuan, arrived at the front line of Xingtai earthquake relief on March 28th. On April 1 day, Zhou Enlai, on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, went to Xingtai earthquake-stricken area again to inspect the disaster situation and express condolences to the affected cadres and masses and the officers and men in earthquake relief. The hijackers were lucky enough to meet Premier Zhou personally at the helicopter landing site. According to the secretary of "Red Musician-Robber", when Zhou Enlai saw the robber that day, he said, "Robber, I admire your Tao the most. I can sing all four of your words." Said, and sang a few words on the spot. Later, Zhou Enlai encouraged Fu Jie to write more songs to show the fighting spirit of the local people, and to stimulate the fighting spirit of earthquake relief. Zhou Enlai's praise for the hijackers in Xingtai earthquake-stricken area "We are on the road" fully embodies and reflects the spiritual essence of his late-night conversation with Anbo and the hijackers in Shenyang, and also fully embodies and reflects the revolutionary spirit and times style that the people of China should walk on the road of socialist construction with high morale. It's a pity that Zhou Enlai sang "We Walk on the Road" in those years, which is hard to trace back.