The national anthem, national flag and national emblem are the most important symbols of the modern nation-state, and at the same time, they are the existence of the people of the entire country. I believe that every Chinese no matter when and where, as long as they hear the melody of the "March of the Volunteer Army", they will suddenly stand up at the waist, and there seems to be a warm current flowing through their hearts, and tears will fill their eyes.
In fact, the history of the birth of the national anthem is not very long, only 450 years. In 1569, the world's first national anthem was born in the Netherlands. At that time, the Dutch people were resisting the oppression of the Spanish rulers, and they did not know who took the lead in singing "Ode to William" (William of Orange), and everyone sang along with them, the more excited they were, the more they sang, the more they sang, the more high the momentum, along with the song, the Dutch bravely and fearlessly rushed to the enemy, and finally miraculously won!
Since then, this "Ode to William" has become the national anthem of the Netherlands, and other countries have seen the "power" of the national anthem and have followed suit and formulated their own unique national anthem. From the history of the production of the national anthem, it is not difficult to find that the general national anthem will adopt an uplifting, blood-boiling, sonorous and powerful melody, but the countries in today's stories have adopted "mourning music" as the melody of their national anthem, and even said that China "plagiarized" their national anthem.
This country is Japan, their national anthem is called "Jun's Generation", the melody is somewhat tragic and sad, interested friends can listen to it, if the editor does not say that this is the Japanese national anthem, I am afraid that everyone will mistakenly think that it is mourning, in fact, even if the mourning melody is really used as the national anthem, it is nothing, it is the freedom of each country, but he wants to take "plagiarism" to talk about things, can we bear it?
For the matter of "study", we have to respect the Japanese, they quickly listened to John's suggestion, and quickly formulated the national anthem, so they invited Oyama Iwa, the leader of the Satsuma Domain infantry team who was particularly good at japanese, Chinese history, and literature, to write the lyrics, and John helped compose the song, and in 1869, the Japanese national anthem "Jun's Generation" was born.
However, the Japanese people were not very satisfied with the melody of the national anthem, so in 1876 it was changed according to the basis of Japanese court music, and a new national anthem was played on the birthday of Emperor Meiji in 1880, which continues to this day.
So where did Japanese court music come from? It originated from the ancient music of the Tang court in China, and friends who know history know that Japan planned to send Tang envoys 19 times during the Tang Dynasty, bringing thousands of Japanese to China to learn about culture, customs and other aspects, including music.
However, with the development of the times, many young Japanese people do not know this history, so after listening to China's mourning, they say that China "plagiarized" the melody of the Japanese national anthem, but if they carefully check the historical materials, they will not say such impolite words.
As a Japanese, as a historian, Tomoharu Fujita has examined a large number of historical books, and even conducted many field visits to ancient monuments, and finally interpreted the Japanese national anthem "Jun's Generation" as an "elegy" praising the Japanese emperor, that is, what we call "mourning".
In fact, even "mourning" does not matter, I believe that people in every country will not talk about it because of this, but they will "spray" indiscriminately without understanding history, which is an act that makes people angry, what do you think of your readers and friends?
References: The Origin of the Emperor's Dynasty, Zizhi Tongjian