Xian Xinghai, a great musician of modern and modern China, is a people's musician. Born in Panyu, he was born in Macau to a poor family of boat workers, and at the age of 7 he lived with his mother in Malaysia, and later studied music in Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai. In 1929, Xian Xinghai was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris.
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.
On March 4, 1938, Xian Xinghai accidentally read the book "Northern Shaanxi in the War of Resistance" and suddenly felt that his heart was bright. He is full of yearning and expectation for the place introduced in the book that is rooted in the people and is full of the dawn of freedom.
More than two years after returning home, the young man who graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Music, who witnessed the struggle of his compatriots on the line of hunger and death, was determined to use music as a weapon to unite all his suffering brothers and sisters. However, the endless censorship and surveillance of the Kuomintang District made him extremely depressed.
Just at this moment, a letter from the Lu Xun Art Institute in Yan'an was signed by all the teachers and students of the Music Department to hire Xian Xinghai. With a yearning for freedom and progress, Xian Xinghai and his new wife, Qian Yunling, set off in the winter of 1938.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yan'an, a small city located in the northwest, became the hope of the Chinese nation to resist Japan and save the country. Less than 5 months after arriving in Yan'an, Xian Xinghai spent 6 days and 6 nights in the cave to complete the composition of the "Yellow River Chorus".
On May 11, 1939, at the anniversary party of Lu Xun Art Institute, Xian Xinghai personally conducted the "Lu Yi" choir to perform the "Yellow River Chorus". The performance, accompanied by harmonica, three strings, foreign oil barrels, and enamel jars, made the audience give a warm and lasting applause, and Mao Zedong and others jumped up and said "good" in unison. On this day, Xian Xinghai wrote in his diary: "I will never forget the situation tonight." Just four days after the performance, Xian Xinghai solemnly wrote down the application for joining the party on May 15.
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. 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.
Synthesized from CCTV News and Xinhua News Agency
Poster: Chen Ting
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