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Recently, many Douyin bloggers posted videos saying: "The 19th Route Army of the Guangdong Army sang the famous song "Caiyun Chasing the Moon" and went to the Songhu battlefield to fight for life and death with the Japanese invaders."
This statement not only satisfies the sense of national identity, but also satisfies the pride of the hometown, so it has become a traffic password, attracting countless people to follow suit, and have produced more similar films based on it, and even become the theme of patriotic propaganda in some schools. While teaching children to sing "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon", some teachers popularized this "history" to children.
But, is this true?
The 19th Route Army fought against Songhu
First of all, let's understand this period of anti-Japanese history.
On January 28, 1932, the Japanese army launched an attack on Shanghai, creating the "January 28 Incident". The 19th Route Army of the Guangdong Army stationed in Shanghai sent an anti-Japanese telegram to all walks of life across the country, saying that as soldiers, "only know that it is their duty to defend themselves and defend their territory. “
Under the leadership of commander-in-chief Jiang Guangnai and army commander Cai Tingkai, the 19th Route Army fought bloodily for nearly 40 days, smashing the Japanese army's wild talk of "occupying Shanghai in four hours" and becoming a well-known anti-Japanese army throughout the country.
It is worth mentioning that there are many people who confuse the "Songhu War of Resistance" with the "Battle of Songhu", the "Battle of Songhu on August 13" was a battle that took place in August 1937 after the Japanese army fully invaded China, and the famous Battle of Eight Hundred Heroes and Four Elements Warehouse was a battle in this battle. Although the two wars took place in Shanghai, there was a five-year gap between them and the "January 28th Shanghai War of Resistance".
▲ "The 19th Route Army Electrified for the Japanese Army", source network
There are also Douyin bloggers who describe the tragedy of this war with "900,000 troops dispatched, 3,000 returned, and every household in Guangdong hangs white silk", but it is also in disregard of historical facts and forcibly sensationalism.
According to records, in the Songhu War of Resistance in 1932, the 19th Route Army of the Guangdong Army and the Fifth Army of the National Army sent about 50,000 people. According to the post-war statistics of this battle, the 19th Route Army suffered 2,449 officers and soldiers killed and 6,343 wounded, with a total of 8,792 casualties.
If you have time, you can go to the 19th Route Army Cemetery on Shuiyin Road in Guangzhou to pay tribute to these martyrs of the Guangdong Army who sacrificed for the country.
"Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" is a famous song in Guangzhou?
Next, let's talk about the recent hit "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon".
"Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" is a national orchestral light music work composed by Zhejiang composer Ren Guang in 1935, performed by the Baidai National Band and published by Shanghai Baidai Record Company. The melody mainly adopts the unique pentatonic scale of traditional Chinese music, which is rich in ethnic color, and uses a lot of Western composition techniques, and even uses the rhythm of tango, which can be described as a combination of Chinese and Western, and it was a very trendy Chinese music at that time. The music has a beautiful melody and is loved by the public, and it is one of Ren Guang's most popular works.
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Some people say that "the tune of "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" is derived from the long-standing Cantonese folk music in the late Qing Dynasty, and even Li Hongzhang, who was the governor of Liangguang at the time, heard it, and copied the score to the imperial court for performance".
However, looking at the publication introduction of Baidai Records and related materials such as "Ren Guangnian Score", there is no mention at all that this song is "adapted from Cantonese folk music" (at that time, Baidai's records, original and adaptations would be clearly marked). However, many music scholars have studied a variety of authoritative classics that record the scores of Cantonese folk music, but they have not found any trace of "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon". In addition, the melody structure of "Chasing the Moon in Colorful Clouds" itself is not the style of traditional Cantonese music, for example, there is no "B inverse" that is common in Cantonese opera.
Therefore, this claim is not reliable. As for the story of Li Hongzhang's music score, it is even more chiseled, and there is no evidence to check it.
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▲ "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" Musical Instrument Edition
Moreover, "Caiyun Chasing the Moon" was originally just a piece of music and no lyrics, and later a number of tunes successively appeared to send "Caiyun Chasing the Moon", filling in Cantonese or Chinese lyrics according to the tune, and even Hokkien and Japanese song versions. The more popular Cantonese versions include "Several Degrees of Sunset Red" sung by Zheng Jinchang in the 70s, and "Red Dust" sung by Ye Qianwen in the 90s.
The earliest Cantonese version was "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" written by Hong Kong Cantonese opera composer Li Yuanwen and sung by singer Cui Miaozhi in 1963, as an interlude to the Hong Kong movie "Forever Smiling". The meaning of the words in this version is most in line with the artistic conception of the original song's title, and the text is beautiful, elegant, and melodious. However, this version was produced in an era when Cantopop songs were considered unpopular, so it is not well known.
In the 70s, Cantopop songs gradually emerged, and this version was covered by Lisa (Huang Huanchan), Singapore's "Cantonese diva", and began to circulate in the Liangguang region and overseas Chinese areas for a long time.
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▲ Lisa version of "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon".
It is precisely because Guangdong artists borrowed Ren Guang's score of "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" and performed it in Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera many times, and at the same time were sung by Cantonese singers and shined, so that "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" was deeply branded with the mark of Guangdong. This is precisely the reason why "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" has long been mistaken by the folk as traditional Cantonese music.
Stop consuming national and hometown feelings
Therefore, it is impossible for the 19th Route Army, which participated in the Songhu War of Resistance in 1932, to sing the song "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" composed in 1935, or even the Cantonese version of "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" that came out in 1963 and went to the Songhu battlefield.
Besides, if an army sings such a soft and lyrical "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" on the battlefield to kill the enemy, this may not be reasonable. There is no wind and snow on the battlefield, and we prefer to believe that the Cantonese army is shouting "Lose that mother, top hard!" to go to the battlefield.
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As for Ren Guang, the author of "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon", he does have a relationship with the Nineteenth Route Army. After Ren Guang witnessed the whole process of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai at that time, he wrote the song "Nineteenth Route Army", which was one of the earliest anti-Japanese songs of that year.
But Douyin's jokers didn't mention anything about it, it seems that the ability to use search engines to check information is lacking, anyway, how to copy and make up how to make up how much traffic is, which is actually no different from Mao's fabrication of "Qin Lang lost his homework in Paris".
▲ Ren Guang, source network
In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the heroic performance of the Guangdong soldiers is certainly worth remembering, and "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" is definitely a classic Chinese music song, but Sheng An Baizao pulled the two together to make up a joke, I am afraid that someone is consuming national and hometown emotions to gain traffic. Those who stand on the moral high ground and shout that history will not be forgotten are often the ones who disregard history the most, and even like to falsify history.
Today, it happens to be the 56th anniversary of the death of General Cai Tingkai, a famous general who commanded the 19th Route Army to participate in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War and the famous anti-Japanese general in Guangdong.
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▲Cai Tingkai's original speech
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