Everyone is the protagonist of life, and everyone is the protagonist of the times. The protagonist we are focusing on today is him – "get up".
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"Up" is Nie Shouxin's nickname, some people call him "Mr. Ear", and he also has a more familiar name: Nie Er.
The picture shows Nie Er (data picture)
We knew him when we were very young, sang his songs, and often looped singles.
"Rise up, people who do not want to be slaves, build our flesh and blood into our new Great Wall, the Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time, everyone is forced to issue a final roar, get up ..."
Manuscript of Nie Er's March of the Volunteer Army
When composing this song, Nie Er always kept singing "get up".
Situ Enmei, the daughter of one of the first versions of the song, the recording engineer and singer of Situ Huimin, once recalled the scene when Nie Er composed music at her home, saying that he always sang while beating the beat. This kind of melody created wholeheartedly made Situ Enmei's grandmother feel empathy, always singing with Nie Er, and excitedly said: "I am also a person who does not want to be a slave!" ”
In 1935, the final draft of the "Volunteer March" was completed, and the most important 46 seconds of the Chinese was born. That year, Nie Er was 23 years old. It was also in that year that Nie Er's life was put to rest.
However, that sound of "rising up", accompanied by the release of the movie "Children of the Wind and Clouds", went through the "One-Two-Nine" Movement, the flames of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the smoke of the War of Liberation, spread throughout the motherland's great rivers and north, sang the cry of the times, and sang into the hearts of every Chinese.
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On National Day, go to Tiananmen Square to see the raising of the national flag and the playing of the national anthem, which is probably the complex of every Chinese. Through this romantic way, everyone expresses the most sincere and simple love for the motherland.
In the early morning of October 1, a grand flag-raising ceremony was held in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Zhonghao
With the first rays of sunshine, the five-star red flag is rising, and the people in Tiananmen Square are singing the national anthem in unison...
Since October 1, 1949, the "March of the Volunteer Army" was played as the national anthem at the founding ceremony, and this scene has become the common memory of generations of Chinese.
The national anthem has also become the most widely sung song in China. With the opening of radio and television every morning, the flag-raising ceremony in Tiananmen Square, the performance of Chinese and foreign heads of state during their mutual visits, the singing at the beginning of important meetings, and the raising of the national flag by China in international sports competitions, this familiar melody greets every dawn, witnesses every moment of glory, and encourages every Chinese to keep moving forward.
However, in actual life, there have been problems such as irregular and unserious singing of the national anthem, and some people have proposed to change the national anthem and change the lyrics, on the grounds that the words "our flesh and blood" and "enemy's artillery fire" in the national anthem are too militant.
The reason for changing the lyrics was actually raised during the discussion of the national anthem selection in 1949. At that time, some people thought that the People's Republic of China was thriving, so how could there be a judgment that "it was the most dangerous time"? In the end, the lyrics were not changed, because of four words: thinking of danger in peace.
Safety does not forget danger, and chaos is not forgotten. The lyrics of the national anthem are never outdated.
On March 14, 2004, the Second Session of the Tenth National People's Congress passed the Amendment to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, which wrote the national anthem, the March of the Volunteer Army, into the Constitution.
On October 1, 2017, the National Anthem Law of the People's Republic of China came into effect.
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What kind of literary and artistic works are good works? What should a qualified literary and artistic worker look like? This is a question that people have been thinking about in recent years, especially after the repeated overturning of stars in the entertainment industry this year.
Nie Er once asked a similar question in his diary: "What is China's emerging music?" Then he replied: "It is in place of the public shouting." ”
From 1933 to 1935, in addition to the "March of the Volunteer Army", Nie Er also created many songs passed down from generation to generation: "Selling Newspaper Songs", "Road Songs", "Dock Workers", "New Women", "Graduation Songs", "Flying Flower Songs", "Singers Under the Iron Hooves", "Plum Niang Songs", etc., all of which are songs for the country and songs for the people.
In 1933, Nie Er wrote "Selling Newspaper Songs" for the female newsboy "Little Hairy Head" in the picture.
"La-la-la-la! La-la-la-la!! I am a small connoisseur of selling newspapers, not waiting for the dawn to wait for the newspaper, while walking, while calling, today's news is really good, seven copper plates to buy two newspapers. ”
At that time, the newspaper girl sang the "Selling Newspaper Song" written by Nie Er to sell newspapers, and the newspapers sold faster. The song's brisk tunes and spirit of bitter music touched people's hearts and are still widely sung today.
Nie Er used his works to answer the questions he had asked that year. We also found the answer we wanted:
The real artist is the forerunner, forerunner, and initiator of the atmosphere of the times;
Literary and artistic works should have bones, morality, and temperature.
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On July 31, 2021, Lu Yunxiu won the gold medal in the women's sailing RS: X class at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
China's Lu Yunxiu (left) celebrates after winning the championship on July 31.
The place where Lu Yunxiu participated in the regatta, Enoshima, a training base in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa, Japan, is the place where Nie Er drowned, and there is a monument to Nie Er on the shore of the race.
When the "March of the Volunteer Army" sounded on Enoshima, many people burst into tears at that moment:
Nie Er, he must have heard it! This is the best consolation for him!
Source: Xinhua Net