When it comes to folk songs, many people's first thoughts are campus folk songs, such as "Childhood" by Luo Dayou, a campus folk song representative in Taiwan Province, "Orchid Grass" by Liu Wenzheng, "Barefoot Walking on the Field" by Ye Jiaxiu, etc. There are also campus folk songs in the mainland, such as "You at the Same Table" by Old Wolf, "Life with You" by Mizuki Nianhua, and there is also an urban folk song, such as Li Chunbo's "Xiaofang" and "A Family Letter". There may be many people who do not know, in fact, there is a kind of military camp folk song, when it comes to military camp folk songs, it has to be said that a person, he is known as Xiao Zeng Zeng Zeng Zeng.
Speaking of Zeng Dehong, he is the founder and pioneer of military camp folk songs, and has created many popular military camp folk songs, such as "My Old Squad Leader", "Green Flowers in the Army", "Brotherly Love" and so on. For the name of Zeng Dehong, it is estimated that many people will be very unfamiliar, he is a Native of Jiangxi, he has loved music since he was a child, he has played a good violin, originally wanted to enter the music department of Normal University, but because the number of recruits was very small, he finally fell off the list. Just in time to meet the conscription of that year, the 18-year-old successfully entered the barracks.
Because Zeng Dehong sang well and could read music, he not only stayed in the new company and later in the teaching team, but also taught the recruits to sing after training. At that time, the army allowance was only 18 yuan per month, and it took more than a year to buy a 180 yuan red cotton guitar. Now the guitar is almost 30 years old, although it is very worn and can no longer be played, but Zeng Dehong still keeps it around, because what remains is the friendship between his life in the army and his comrades-in-arms.
The songs that were sung in the army before were either "Towards the Shooting Range" or songs such as "Speak from the Heart", and for recruits who joined the army after 90 years, the mood was completely different. Although this kind of song can reflect the righteousness of the soldiers, but the lack of today's young people's emotional needs, so Zeng Dehong began to write his own songs, the first song created "New Soldiers Miss home", just launched by the new recruits loved.
The iron camp, the flowing water soldiers, the three-year military career ended, with the nostalgia for the army back to his hometown, arranged to work in the cultural center, very self-motivated Zeng Dehong self-study into the Jiangxi Institute of Education. However, when he left the army, he began to have an inexplicable sense of loss, missing his own troops, thinking of his comrades-in-arms, thinking of the old squad leader, that surging emotion made him create songs such as "My Old Squad Leader" and "Comrades Who Were Soldiers Do a Cup", in fact, these songs not only represented Zeng Dehong's feelings of missing the troops, but also represented thousands of veterans who left the army, so it resonated with veterans, his songs spread among veterans and military camps at once, and this song was always in the forefront of the platoons at that time. It can be seen that the popularity is high.
Later, he also created military camp folk songs such as "Barracks Folk Songs", "Green Flowers in the Army", "Thinking of Comrades-in-Arms", "Sending Comrades-in-Arms", and "Brotherly Love", which became the must-sing and widely sung songs of the troops. At that time, in fact, Zeng Dehong was more popular than Cai Guoqing, Cai Guoqing was also a military singer, but he was famous for "Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Blessings" and "The Bridge of Beijing", which was not on the side of the military brigade, and some other songs were not his original songs, but with his handsome appearance and good background, he appeared on the Spring Festival Gala for more than 20 consecutive years, and the result was that Cai Guoqing was incredibly red, and the audience remembered his song only "Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Blessings", while Zeng Dehong's song was very popular, but the person was not red, and disappeared for ten years during this period.
Where has Zeng Dehong gone in the past ten years, it turned out that he went to the border defense troops to sing condolences to his comrades-in-arms, a total of more than 600 individual charity performances, and he was also the only singer who walked through the various military stations of the Qinghai-Tibet Line to perform voluntary condolences. He is also loyal to public welfare, and has successively created the "Old Class Leader Music Fund" in many places, donated to poor students, and set up a "veteran commando team" during the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 to do all kinds of services for the people in the disaster area. Due to Xiao Zeng's deeds, in May 2009, he was specially recruited into the army again and became a regiment-level creator of the Chengdu Military Region's Battle Flag Cultural and Labor Corps.
If there is any difference between Zeng Dehong and Cai Guoqing? Why can Cai Guoqing be so popular, but Zeng Dehong is unknown? In addition to Cai Guoqing's handsome, more is the difference in personality and attitude of the two, Cai Guoqing is outgoing and likes to perform in the spotlight, while Zeng Dehong is more introverted, not good at talking, prefers to express feelings with songs, and his favorite is to sing to the comrades of the army, and his songs and feelings are more full of military complexes.