Video loading...
At the time of national crisis, the Yellow River is roaring, becoming a symbol of the indomitable indomitable Chinese nation, inspiring hundreds of millions of Chinese people to go forward and fight for national liberation. In this heroic and heroic struggle, a person from Panyu, Guangdong Province, used musical scores to depict the raging waves of the Yellow River and roared for the War of Resistance, he was the people's musician and the author of the "Yellow River Chorus" - Xian Xinghai.
Xian Xinghai
Sin Xinghai was born in Macau in 1905 in a poor fisherman's family. Because of the early death of his father, Xian Xinghai was raised by his mother from an early age and lived in his grandfather's house. At the age of 7, he earned a living with his mother in Malaya and studied at the Yang Zheng School in Singapore, where he participated in the school's orchestra. After returning to China in 1918, he entered lingnan university affiliated high school to study violin. Since then, Xian Xinghai has studied in Beijing and Shanghai. He is diligent in his pursuit of music, not satisfied with what he can learn now, and wants to become an "international musician".
In 1929, Xian Xinghai went to Paris for work-study. Xian Xinghai once wrote in his diary that he often spent time in hunger and unemployment. Forced by life, Xian Xinghai worked as a restaurant waiter, a barber shop chore, taking children to others, and even playing the violin on the street or in a coffee shop to beg for living expenses, but he endured humiliation all day and could not ask for much money, but he never wavered in his will to learn music. With his hard work and talent, Xian Xinghai was admitted to the senior composition class of the famous French composer Paul Duca, and won the honorary award, becoming the first Oriental to be admitted to the class. When the school asked him what material prizes he needed, Xian Xinghai only needed one thing: meal tickets.
Xian Xinghai when in France
In 1935, Xian Xinghai refused to be retained by all parties, and resolutely chose to return to China and join the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement. From 1935 to 1938, Xian Xinghai participated in the second team of the Shanghai Rescue Drama, went deep into schools, rural areas, factories and mines, held anti-war song activities, taught the masses to sing anti-Japanese songs, stimulated the patriotic enthusiasm of the sons and daughters of China, and used music as a weapon to resist the enemy and insults. He composed a large number of songs, such as "National Salvation Army Song", "Go to the Enemy's Rear", and "On the Taihang Mountain", which opened up a new situation in China's modern revolutionary music.
In 1938, Xian Xinghai went to Yan'an to serve as the head of the music department of Lu Xun Art Academy, where he taught part-time at the "Women's University" and joined the Communist Party of China in 1939. In addition to teaching, Xian Xinghai created immortal masterpieces such as "Yellow River Chorus" and "Production Chorus". In particular, the "Yellow River Chorus," which is most well known to the Chinese people, sang the song of the great rivers north and south of the great river during the years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which greatly boosted the morale of the nation, invigorated the national spirit, and became the spiritual weapon of the Chinese nation in resisting the enemy and saving the country, and is an immortal heroic movement of the Chinese nation.
In 1940, Xian Xinghai, under the pseudonym "Huang Xun", went to Moscow to score and post-produce the film Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army. Near the end of the work, due to the outbreak of war, Xian Xinghai was forced to stay in another country for a long time. Due to the long-term displacement and lack of food, Xian Xinghai's body deteriorated and his condition became more and more serious. In May 1945, Xian Xinghai was sent to the Moscow Kremlin Hospital for treatment. But a few months later, the life of the great young musician finally came to an end.
A bust of Xian Xinghai in the Xinghai Park on the shore of Lakeside in Luhu Lake, Guangzhou
Throughout his life, Xian Xinghai struggled for music, for the Chinese nation, and used music to invigorate the national spirit, and Chairman Mao once called him "the musician of the people." Today, in the Xinghai Park on the shore of Lakeside in Luhu Lake in Guangzhou, along the steps of the imposing tomb road, you can see a solemn bust of Xian Xinghai, and under the base of the statue is placed part of Xian Xinghai's ashes, where this great music parent sleeps.
Video: Yuan Shijie
Producer: Zhu Wenting, Lin Jiayuan
Part of the source of material: CCTV Panyu Museum