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84 years ago today "March of the Volunteers" was published
84 years ago today, on May 16, 1935, the Volunteer March, composed by the famous playwright Tian Han and the founder of the Chinese New Music Movement Nie Er, was published.
At the beginning of 1935, Shanghai Diantong Film Company moved to 405 Jingzhou Road to shoot the first film "Children of the Wind and Clouds" after the relocation. "Volunteer March" is the earliest movie "children" theme song. On May 16, 1935, the inaugural issue of the pictorial of "Dentong" published the song "March of the Volunteers.
A report in Jiefang Daily mentioned that in February 1935, Nie Er heard that a theme song was needed at the end of the film "children of the wind and clouds", which had been shot by Shanghai Dentsu company, so he found Xia Yan, the screenwriter of the film, and asked to write a song. According to Xia Yan's recollection, "I showed him the film script. He knew the story of the script for a long time, so he found the last lyrics as soon as he got it. He read it twice in a row and quickly said, 'I'll do the composition.'" For the need of musical expression, Nie Er added three "get up" to the lyrics, and at the end "Braving the enemy's fire! Forward!" Added "Forward! In!", Make the whole song rhythm more integrated, sonorous and powerful. This song was later sung throughout China, the world-famous "March of the Volunteers".
Tian Han, the lyricist of this song, is a playwright, poet and founder of modern Chinese drama. Even Tian Han himself can't remember when he finished the creation of the lyrics. There was a saying among the people: Tian Han was arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang authorities for propagating the anti-Japanese war. In prison, he wrote the lyrics on a piece of cigarette paper, and then passed it out of prison through the inside.
After the film "Children of the Wind and Clouds" was released, this song, which expresses the common aspirations of hundreds of millions of people across the country, quickly spread to all directions.
On September 27, 1949, the First Plenary Session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference passed a resolution to use the "Volunteer March" as the national anthem before the the People's Republic of China national anthem was formally formulated. On March 14, 2004, the Second Session of the Tenth National People's Congress passed a constitutional amendment, stipulating that "the the People's Republic of China national anthem is the March of Volunteers."
Source: Liberation Daily
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