My Motherland is a patriotic song written by Liu Chi and sung by Guo. It is the theme song of the movie Shangganling.

Liu Chi and Guo won the first gold record award for this song.

Creation background

Lyrics process

After changchun film studio finished filming Shangganling, director Sha Meng asked Qiao Yu to write lyrics for the theme song. On the night of Qiao Yu's invitation, he boarded the bus from Nanchang to Shanghai and went to Shanghai from Shanghai Film Studio.

The factory director Yuan arranged a train to Changchun. After the meeting between Sha Meng and Qiao Yu, Sha Meng gave Qiao Yu a message: The film "Shangganling" has been shot and the sample has been cut. Leave only a few minutes of the episode, and then make up the film when the song comes out. The whole crew spends a lot of money every day. Therefore, Sha Meng asked Qiao Yu to write quickly, and asked the song to be passed down forever. [2] Qiao Yu wanted to take a different writing path when writing lyrics, but he couldn't think of it. Sha Meng came to his room almost every day to rush the manuscript, and Qiao Yu had no choice. It was not until he remembered the scene of seeing the Yangtze River in Jiangxi that he wrote the lyrics. Half an hour after receiving the manuscript, Sha Meng asked why the first sentence didn't use the Yangtze River or the Yangtze River Wan Li. Qiao Yu thinks that writing like this may make people who are not near the Yangtze River feel psychologically distant and lose their intimacy. Finally, Sha Meng accepted Qiao Yu's idea.

building-up process

1956, Sha Meng asked Liu Chi to compose music for my motherland. In order to make people like this song, Liu Chi investigated and studied the songs that people like to sing from 1949 to 1955, and selected ten songs to listen to repeatedly. Finally, he found the first sentence of my motherland from the first sentence of one of Lugou's questions and answers. When Liu Chi was writing Xiao Bai Lou in changchun film studio, in order to avoid outside interference, he posted a note "Liu Chi is dead" on the door.

Choose a singer

In order to find a suitable singer to sing My Motherland, Chang Ying invited a group of singers who are good at singing China folk songs, but the effect was not satisfactory. Later, Guo was asked to sing. After Guo's audition, she was chosen as the singer of this song. This song was recorded in china national radio, and the next day after the recording was completed, the radio station broadcasted this song to the whole of China.

lyrics

A big river is rough, and the wind blows rice flowers on both sides.

My family lives on the shore. I am used to listening to the boatman's songs and watching the white sails on the boat.

This is a beautiful motherland, where I grew up.

In this vast land, there are beautiful scenery everywhere.

A girl is like a flower. What a broad-minded boy.

In order to open up a new world, sleeping mountains are awakened and rivers are changed.

This is the hero's motherland, where I grew up.

In this ancient land, there is the power of youth everywhere.

Good mountains, good water, good places and spacious roads.

Friends are here, and there is good wine. If the jackal comes, it will be greeted by a shotgun.

This is a powerful motherland, and I grew up here.

In this warm land, there are peaceful sunshine everywhere.

Song appreciation

"My Motherland" profoundly expressed strong patriotic feelings and praised the infinite love and heroism of volunteer soldiers for their motherland and hometown. The lyrics are sincere, simple, cordial and vivid. The first half of the melody is euphemistic, and three songs and three beautiful pictures are fascinating. [7] Although this song is different from many red songs, its style is tough and powerful, but the melody in the first half is euphemistic, and the chorus and mixed chorus in the second half are in sharp contrast with the previous one, as if mountain torrents poured down thousands of miles, expressing the soldiers' * * and singing the volunteers' infinite love and heroism for the motherland and hometown.

"My Motherland" is an excellent lyric song, which deeply expresses a strong patriotic thought. The first part of the song, in the form of lyric soprano, is full of homesickness in the sweet singing, which makes people seem to see the beautiful scenery of the motherland drifting in rivers and the fragrant rice in the fields. In the form of mixed chorus, the latter part is in sharp contrast with the former part, singing the theme of "This is a beautiful motherland", which is surging and magnificent.