80 years ago, ** pointed out at the Yan'an Literary and Art Forum: "If we want to defeat the enemy, we must first rely on the army with a gun in our hands, but it is not enough to have this kind of army, we must also have a cultural army, which is an indispensable army to unite ourselves and defeat the enemy." In 1959, in order to welcome the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, more than 200 battle-hardened and time-tested generals formed a general choir, and sang four songs at the celebration meeting: "Red Army Discipline Song", "On Taihang Mountain", "I am a soldier", and "We must plant the banner of victory in Taiwan". Now, let us listen to the "masterpiece" of the General's Choir and feel that magnificent history again.
All the red soldiers should keep in mind that there are three major disciplines and eight points of attention. The "Song of Discipline of the Red Army" emphasizes the word "strict," which fully proves that strict adherence to iron discipline was one of the important reasons why the Red Army won the support and support of the masses in those years. "Red Army Discipline Song" originated from a miscellaneous rhyme composed by ***, "go to the door board, bundle the grass, sweep the house, speak kindly, buy and sell fairly, compensate for damaged things, and pay off the borrowed things", just 6 sentences fully reflect the flesh-and-blood ties between the party and the army and the people. In December 1929, the resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Fourth Army of the Red Army of the Communist Party of China made it clear that the Red Army should strictly implement the "three major disciplines", namely, "1. Do not take anything from workers, peasants, and small businessmen; Second, fight local tyrants and return to the public; 3. Obey the command in all actions". The above is what we often refer to as the "three disciplines and six attentions". Later, the troops moved to southern Jiangxi and western Fujian, and according to the customs and habits of the local people, two more items were added to the "three major disciplines and six points of attention" and changed to "three major disciplines and eight points of attention". In 1935, the Shaanxi-Gansu detachment arrived at Xiasi Bay in Ganquan and joined forces with the Red 15th Army. These Red Army soldiers of the Shaanxi-Gansu detachment from the **Soviet region were surprised to find that the "three disciplines and eight points of attention" they were familiar with were sung in the form of songs by the welcoming team. It turned out that after the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" in the Soviet area, Cheng Zihua was sent to inform the Red 25th Army of the strategic transfer, and Cheng Zihua brought the notice on the one hand, and also brought the "three disciplines and eight attentions" of the Red Army in the Soviet area. Cheng Tan, secretary general of the Political Department of the Red 25th Army, took the "three major disciplines and eight points of attention" as the content, and used the singing voice of folk songs in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui region to process and compose, and adapted it into "Red Army Discipline Song". This song is also known as "China's No. 1 Military Song", which has been sung for many years and has been passed down to this day.
The mother told her son to fight the East, and the wife sent her husband to the battlefield. "On the Taihang Mountain" emphasizes the word "gathering", and the people are the source of the people's army's continuous development and growth. In August 1937, the creator Gui Taosheng rushed to Shanxi and devoted himself to Lingchuan County to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda activities. Lingchuan County is home to a large number of promising young people who are determined to serve the country, and Lingchuan children who have firm beliefs and bravely kill the enemy. During the period when he was in charge of anti-Japanese propaganda work, Gui Taosheng was in the touching scene of "mother sending children, wife sending husband, going to the battlefield, and fighting the East", and felt that the united Taihang army and people were the real "copper wall and iron wall". Gui Taosheng and the teachers and students of the Lingchuan Anti-Japanese Children's Propaganda Team climbed Foshan, which is known as the "first peak of Taihang", coinciding with a round of red sun, indicating the bright future of the Anti-Japanese War, and also bringing creative inspiration to Gui Taosheng, so the magnificent poem "On Taihang Mountain" came into being. In the summer of 1938, Xian Xinghai carefully composed the music for "On the Taihang Mountain", which was a great success during the performance of the Hankou Anti-Japanese War Memorial Propaganda Week, and quickly spread throughout the rear and the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines, inspiring the masses to actively participate in the Anti-Japanese War. Xian Xinghai once described "On Taihang Mountain" like this: "Now the guerrillas in Taihang Mountain take it as the team song, and the common people and children will sing it, and they hear the sentence 'The enemy attacks from **, and we want it to perish' everywhere!" "On the Taihang Mountain" is such a heart-wrenching famous song of the Anti-Japanese War, which organically combines the lyrical melody with the melody of the march, making the song full of combat and realistic, showing the heroic deeds and heroic spirit of the Eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountain on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and greatly encouraging the strong will of the people of the whole country to unite in the war of resistance.
Who dares to start a war, resolutely fight him mercilessly! "I Am a Soldier" emphasizes the word "fighting", which fully demonstrates the heroic spirit of our army that dares to fight and will win. In June 1950, when the Korean War broke out, Yue Lun and Lu Yuan, literary and artistic workers of the Central and Southern Military Region, witnessed the high enthusiasm of the vast number of officers and soldiers, and they were all determined to hold on to their guns and rush to the front line to destroy the enemy at any time. They were determined to create a "soldier's song" for the soldiers, and "I Am a Soldier" was distilled from what the soldiers said, thought, and wrote. Soon, "I Am a Soldier" and several other songs related to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea were published in the inaugural issue of "Songs of the People's Liberation Army" and recommended to the whole army. For a time, this sonorous and powerful song was soon sung among the officers and men. Subsequently, this song "I Am a Soldier" and another song "Defeat the Wolf of American Imperialist Ambition" (that is, later "Battle Song of the Chinese People's Volunteers") were taken to the Korean battlefield, which greatly boosted the morale of the volunteers to fight the invaders, so it was regarded by the Western ** circles as a "bombshell" dropped by China on the Korean battlefield. As the composer Fu Gengchen commented: Life is the source of creation, and the shocking combat life of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea will inevitably give birth to many excellent songs, which influence the commanders and fighters of the Volunteer Army to fight bravely and win the victory of that war.
No one can occupy the territory of our motherland, and no one can stop our strong troops. "We Must Plant the Banner of Victory in Taiwan" emphasizes the word "victory." In July 1954, "People's **" published an editorial entitled "Taiwan must be liberated", and the creator Xiaohe's "We Must Plant the Banner of Victory in Taiwan" created during the first shelling of Kinmen directly responded to this editorial. After the song was sung on the front line of the battle and caused a strong response, it was listed as a recommended song for the whole army. In the large-scale dance epic "Dongfang Hong", there is also a chorus of 1,000 people "We must plant the banner of victory in Taiwan", and the response is enthusiastic. The lyrics of this song are short, but the words are sonorous and powerful, and the theme of the song is like a stirred wave, surging and galloping forward, condensing the firm will to reunify the motherland. At the ceremony to celebrate the 10 th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Generals' Choir sang this song with determination and confidence in resolutely defending the reunification of the motherland. Today, when the peaceful reunification of the motherland is being promoted, the patriotic fervor expressed in its magnificent tone is still unforgettable.
The war years were an era of heroes, and it was also an era of loud war songs. Zheng Lucheng, the "father of military songs", once said, "In the thirties, Nie Er took the lead in singing 'People who rise up and don't want to be slaves'. Later, after the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, until now, mass songs have been widely sung. Our political life is inseparable from revolutionary songs". It is precisely the creation and interpretation of these revolutionary ancestors who were stained with the frost of the journey and whose faces were blackened by the gunpowder smoke of the battlefield that we have the honor to sing this immortal classic melody in the era of peace. (Jiang Tao, Li Xiang).
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Editor in charge: Ji Chunyan.
Reviewer: Gao Han.