In the 1950s, the revolutionary armed uprising of the colonial people broke out in the Latin American country of Cuba. The Cuban people, dissatisfied with the oppression of US imperialism and colonialism, under the leadership of the Cuban Communist Party headed by President Castro, began with an armed uprising in July 1953 and won victory in January 1959 after five years of armed struggle. The first socialist country was established in Latin America to break away from imperialist rule.
When I was a clueless child in Early 1960s in China, I used to listen to the state-run coal miners' school in my rural hometown, and my two sisters used to sing a Cuban song at home. The name of the song is "Beautiful Havana." It was the best song I thought was when I was a kid
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Although I was still ignorant of the concept of a good song at that time, but just by my familiarity, I listened to my two sisters singing the Cuban song "Beautiful Havana", which made me feel particularly kind and good, and often made me feel from the heart that the melody of this song was so gentle and sweet, which made me feel particularly excited and excited. Now let me describe it in words, that is, the melody of that song is gentle, feminine, beautiful, pure and touching. But when I listened to my sister's chant of "Beautiful Havana", there was only the full first lyric, and the second lyric only reminded me of "Daddy he took my hand and shouted Maria" and there was no more lyrics. Therefore, when I was a child, I only listened to the Beautiful Havana, a Cuban song with beautiful melodies. However, the entire lyrics of the song were never seen, and it was not enough to understand her history of the revolutionary struggle of the Cuban people. It also made me, a music lover who has been in school and work from adolescence to middle age and old age, fail to realize the essence of "Beautiful Havana", a song that praises the Cuban Revolution. It has not made me feel the connotation of this excellent song, which highly praises the great leader of the Cuban people, President Castro, and leads the people to overthrow the reactionary regime of American colonialism and establish a socialist new Cuba.
For "Beautiful Havana", an excellent revolutionary song based on narrative style, I only saw and heard all her lyrics when I was more than sixty years old. Only then did I understand that the song "Beautiful Havana" was based on the tragic experience of a family of three in Cuba who was bullied and oppressed by the American manor owners and whose family was destroyed and killed; she sang about the history of the Cuban people's long-term oppression and exploitation of the old imperialist and colonialist reactionary rule of the United States in the last century; only then did I understand that she sang about the great feat of the Cuban people in driving the reactionary foreign manor owners headed by the United States out of Cuba under the leadership of the proletarian revolutionary party chaired by Castro! This song is not only particularly prominent in musical aesthetic appreciation, but its lyrics are full of emotions, expressing that the Cuban people, under the leadership of the political party led by President Castro, have driven away the reactionary rule of colonialism led by the United States by force, and enthusiastically praise the socialist Cuban people as masters of their homes and enjoy a peaceful and happy life. It is a world famous song.
Today, as a writer in China's socialist country, I want to use my own life insights to sing the praises of the Cuban people in the last century for the beautiful rhyme of striving for national freedom and liberation and national independence, and to make my sincere emotional understanding and analysis of the excellent red song "Beautiful Havana", which is poignant, magnificent, and full of revolutionary enthusiasm. I intend to realize for the Chinese youth living in the era of peace today, and the youth of all peace-loving countries in the world, of the cruelty, decay and reaction of imperialism, the rule of old and new colonialism in the world! My intention is to arouse the peace-loving people of the whole world and not to forget the pain and harm caused to human society by the system of exploitation pursued by the imperialists and colonialists in the past!
The first lyrics of "Beautiful Havana" sing: Beautiful Havana, where there is my home, bright sunshine shines on the new house, and red flowers bloom in front of the door. Dad loved me like a baby, and the neighbors praised me as a good doll, but I had never seen it, and my dear mother ——。
"Beautiful Havana", a world-famous song with beautiful rhymes, not only has a special sweet, euphemistic and beautiful melody, but also contains narrative songs, extremely rigorous aesthetic framework structure. When our listeners listen to the first lyrics, they will naturally realize that this is a young woman singing her beautiful hometown of "Havana", and if the listener has a little knowledge of the geography of the world, it will naturally understand that the original singer who sang this song is a woman from the Latin American country of Cuba. After listening to the lyrics of this first paragraph, the slightest thought will naturally have an unsolved mystery about the first paragraph of the song, and will need to continue listening, and will naturally have a desire to explore why this Cuban woman lives in the beautiful hometown of Havana, and why she has never met her dear mother. Dear readers and friends, the world famous song is the world famous song, "Beautiful Havana" she is by no means a simple composer composed of the beauty of the musical melody, the songwriter's careful creation, the beauty of its rigorous and ingenious word structure, is equally important.
The second lyrics of "Beautiful Havana" sing: I can't forget that day, I sat under a palm tree, and my father took my hand and called out to Maria. Child, you have grown up, hatred should sprout, you miss your mother day and night, she can no longer come home. In the dark old society, the laborers were cattle and horses, the evil American manor owners, forcing your mother to die.
When our listeners listen to the second lyrics of "Beautiful Havana", they will suddenly understand that this Cuban woman's mother was originally bullied and forced to death by the evil American manor owners before the Cuban socialist revolution gained freedom and independence! "Beautiful Havana", a world-famous song with a beautiful melody and a combination of beautiful aesthetic beauty, makes each of us listeners with a sense of justice have infinite sympathy for the tragic experience of the Cuban woman's family, and have an incomparable resentment against the imperialism and colonialism led by the United States in the last century!
The third lyric of "Beautiful Havana" sings: Mom, just after she died, Dad was beaten again, and the heavy suffering forced me to go far away. Dad went to make a revolution, took a gun to fight the world, followed the heroic guerrillas, and fought back to Havana. Dared to go to the manor owners and established a new Cuba. The workers and peasants have become masters and will no longer be oppressed.
Dear readers and friends, the third lyric of "Beautiful Havana" can be said to reflect the essence of this famous world famous song, and she plays a role in the whole song. She connected the lyrics of the second paragraph, not only answered the first lyrics of the girl singing that she had never met her dear mother, recounted the origin of the matter, and explained to the audience that her mother was bullied and forced to death by the American manor owner, and the evil American manor still did not let go of her father, and continued to bully and beat her!
At the beginning of this third lyric, the audience is told in very straightforward language: Heavy suffering has forced many Cuban people to leave their homeland and go to the end of the world... Where there is exploitation, there is resistance, where there is oppression, where there is struggle! The Cuban people, who were no longer willing to endure the bullying of the colonialists, finally woke up, singing in the song "Daddy go to the revolution, take the gun to fight the world!" "Papa took a gun and followed the heroic guerrillas back to Havana, and the Cuban people, under the leadership of the Communist Party led by President Castro, won the freedom and independence of the Republic of Cuba! The Cuban people are no longer enslaved and oppressed by imperialism and colonialism! Go without saying. The idea and soul of this excellent world famous song is to celebrate the national democratic revolutionary war against the pro-American dictatorship that broke out in Cuba from 1953 to 1959 in the last century.
The fourth lyric of "Beautiful Havana" sings: The motherland is like the sun, life is like Caixia, but it is a pity that your dear mother did not see a happy home. Listening to My Dad's words, I was so angry that I gritted my teeth! I am determined to be a small militiaman and defend New Cuba! If the American robber comes again, he must be destroyed!
"The motherland is like the sun, and life is like Caixia." This is the high praise of the Cuban people who have shaken off the rule of US imperialism and colonialism, the high praise of the newborn Socialist Motherland in Cuba, the enthusiastic praise of the Liberated Cuban People for the Cuban Communist Party headed by Castroism, and the expression of the high and proud feelings of the broad masses of workers and peasants for the People's Republic of Cuba after they have turned themselves into masters!
In view of the simple special requirements of the song, the lyricist quickly turned the pen sharply and wrote the lyrics: "It is a pity that your dear mother did not see a happy home." In this way, the singers and the audience were reminded of the newly departed reality of the oppression of the Cuban people by the US imperialist bandits from the euphoria of the new Cuba. Don't forget the class suffering, remember the blood and tears! Although the Cuban people have been liberated, they should always be educated and vigilant to the broad masses of the Cuban people, and must remember that US imperialism is always trying to overthrow the People's Republic of Cuba, that they are always trying to re-invade and occupy Cuba, and that the US imperialist manor owners, who covet this beautiful land, always want to ride on the heads of the Cuban people and do their best!
The final lyrics of "Beautiful Havana" sing: "Listen to Daddy's words, so angry that I grit my teeth!" I am determined to be a small militiaman and defend New Cuba! If the American robber dares to come again, he must be destroyed! ”
Dear readers, comrades, what is a revolutionary song? We Chinese mainland people live in a socialist ideological country, and as a writer of the Socialist People's Republic of China, of course I want to uphold the Marxist worldview to analyze and discuss the world-famous song "Beautiful Havana". The so-called "revolutionary songs" are songs with a distinct proletarian revolutionary stance and conform to the popular recognition of the masses of the people and are rich in objective truth political connotations!
"Beautiful Havana", this song expresses the meaning of the lyrics in a narrative way, with the tragic experience of a cuban family of three under the colonial rule of US imperialism, with a mournful and miserable history of blood and tears, ruthlessly exposing the domineering and vicious and inhuman nature of the US imperialist manor owners! With the tragic facts of the family history of the master, the American manor owners were flogged and persecuted inhumanely by the working people of Cuba! This great world famous song not only has the revolutionary and militant character of praising the proletariat, but also has the ability to call on the proletariat of all countries to get rid of the reactionary rule of imperialism and colonialism only by taking the road of armed revolution! Only with revolutionary armament can we defend the fruits of the victory of the revolution! This glorious revolutionary song concludes with: "I am determined to be a small militiaman and defend New Cuba!" If the American robber dares to come again, he must be destroyed! "To conclude this great song is to say that the political significance he contains is vast and profound!
Dear readers, there may be some doubts and incomprehensions about my painstaking and emotional analysis and interpretation of an old Cuban song of more than half a century. Here, I would like to give you a solution and explanation of my thoughts. I am familiar with the beautiful melody of the song "Beautiful Havana", which can be said to be almost fifty years before the birth of this beautiful song. Back in 1960, I was a six-year-old. At that time, I had a love for the beautiful melody of the song "Beautiful Havana", but it was more than fifty years after I was familiar with her beautiful melody.
When I heard the famous "Black Duck" singing troupe in China's music scene singing "Beautiful Havana", I learned all the lyrics of this world famous song. That made me realize that "Beautiful Havana" is a poignant and magnificent epic song of the revolution! It made me realize that Cuba, a beautiful Latin American country, has suffered from imperialist and colonial enslavement in history. Only then did I know the wisdom and greatness of President Castro, the patriotic leader of Cuba!
Dear readers and comrades, I hope that everyone will be able to carefully appreciate the song "Beautiful Havana", from which we can feel the beauty and joy of the Communist Party of Cuba building a socialist new Cuba, the working people as masters, and the society no longer existing to exploit people and oppress people!
December 1, 2021
Song Wenbin, also known as Song Wenbin, Song Ya, male, born in 1956. Contemporary writers. Originally from Fengfeng Mining District, Hebei Province. Hebei Author:Member of Provincial Writers Association. Hubei Wuhan "Contemporary Writers" special writer. Special writer of Beijing Municipal Center of Cultural Communication. Invited Editor of Beijing Caifeng China Magazine. There are more than 100 essays, essays, and reportages, which have been published in many publishing houses across the country, as well as provincial and municipal newspapers and magazines. I have collected more than 10,000 books with academicians of the National Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, and professors from famous universities, and have won many awards. His representative works such as "Takayama Yixiu" and "Collection of Fanghua" are collections of essays, with more than one million words. His 500,000-word prose work "Alpine Yixiu" has been collected by Handan City, Hebei Province and the National Library.