The Chinese nation is a monumental nation, a name, a monument; a string of names, a backbone! They shine with the sun and the moon, shoulder to shoulder with Song Yue, engraved on the Monument to the People's Heroes, flying on the party flag, and inscribed on the verdant land of the long river. Today, the Chaoyang District People's Procuratorate will work with you to look back at the past 100 years of the blue wisps of the Yanlu Road, draw forward strength from the revolutionary martyrs, and inject strong impetus into the procuratorial work in the new era.
I have my personality, my conscience, not what money can buy. My music should be dedicated to the motherland, to the working people, and to the salvation of the national crisis.
- Xian Xinghai
Xian Xinghai, a great musician in modern and modern China, is a member of the Communist Party of China. Originally from Panyu, Guangdong Province, he was born in Macau to a poor family of boatmen. At the age of 7, Sin Xinghai and his mother emigrated to Malaysia to earn a living, participating in the school orchestra during his school days in Singapore.
Xian Xinghai statue
In 1929, Xian Xinghai went to Paris to study work-study under the famous violinist Pani Obedofell and the famous composer Paul Ducas. In 1931 he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied composition at Shora Cantorum. During his stay in France, he composed more than ten works such as "Wind", "Wandering Ziyin", and "Violin Sonata in D minor".
After returning to China in 1935, Xian Xinghai actively participated in the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement, composed a large number of combat mass songs, and composed music for progressive films such as "Top Gun", "Youth March", drama "Resurrection", "Great Thunderstorm" and so on. He also participated in the Second Team of Shanghai Salvation Drama. From 1935 to 1938, he composed various types of vocal works such as "The Song of the National Salvation Army", "Only Afraid of Not Resisting", "Guerrilla Army Song", "The Road Is Open", "The Vast Siberia", "The Children of the Motherland", "Go to the Rear of the Enemy", "On the Taihang Mountain" and so on. In 1938, Xian Xinghai went to Yan'an to serve as the head of the music department of Lu Xun Art Academy, and in addition to teaching at the "Women's University", he created the immortal masterpieces "Yellow River Chorus" and "Production Chorus".
In May 1940, Xian Xinghai was sent by the Party Central Committee to the Soviet Union to score the large-scale documentary "Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army", but was detained due to war and traffic barriers. During this period, he wrote the symphonies "National Liberation" and "Sacred War", the orchestral suite "Manjiang Hong", the orchestral "Chinese Rhapsody" and the violin song "Guo Zhier-Bidai", etc., and has collected nearly 300 of his works; in addition, he has also written a large number of music papers such as "Nie Er - The Creator of China's Emerging Music" and "On the National Forms of Chinese Music", and has published 35 articles.
Lung disease worsened by long-term fatigue and malnutrition, and Xian Xinghai died of sea disease in Moscow in 1945.
In 2009, Xian Xinghai was elected as one of the "100 Heroic And Exemplary Figures Who Made Outstanding Contributions to the Founding of New China".
The sound of the Yellow River recalls the heroic martyrs, and the spirit of the Xinghai sea is passed down from generation to generation. Now in Guangzhou, the city and its citizens are commemorating this great people's musician in many ways and inheriting the spirit of Xinghai.
Xinghai Concert Hall
On Ersha Island, surrounded by the Pearl River, the Xinghai Concert Hall, named after Xian Xinghai, played melodious music countless times, making it a literary and artistic landmark of the city; in 1985, the Guangzhou Conservatory of Music was renamed xinghai Conservatory of Music, cultivating artistic professionals who passed on the "Xinghai Spirit" from generation to generation; on June 13, 2005, on the 100th anniversary of Xian Xinghai's birth, the Panyu Museum opened a special exhibition hall to carry forward Xian Xinghai's revolutionary spirit and extraordinary music...
"Xian Xinghai has contributed everything to the country and the nation, and his feelings of home and country are touching." Xiao Hua, an associate researcher at the Panyu Museum, said that through the opening of special exhibition halls, the holding of "New Era Red Culture Lecture Hall", story tour and other forms, the museum hopes to let more people understand Xian Xinghai's life deeds, so that the "Xinghai Spirit" of "perseverance, lofty ambitions, truth-seeking and pragmatic, and patriotic dedication" can be passed on.
Source: Learning to power the country
Prosecutors said
Comrade Xian Xinghai is an accomplished composer in the history of modern music in China, who together with Nie Er's film music has built the skeleton of Chinese film music, and he has written music that shocked the Chinese and foreign music scenes with surging excitement and distinct national characteristics. He is a musician loved by the people and a pioneer in the history of Chinese film music entrepreneurship.