The heroic hymn of the new era of Shubian soldiers

【The Ninth Batch of New Songs on the Theme of "Chinese Dream" (3)】

The heroic hymn of the new era of Shubian soldiers

——Visit "Please rest assured! Chen Daobin, lyricist of "Motherland", Wang Zhe, composer, and Lei Jia, singer

Guangming Daily reporter Guo Chao

On the Spring Festival Gala stage of the 2021 Central Radio and Television Station, "Please Rest Assured!" sung by military singer Lei Jia! The motherland (Chen Daobin's words, Wang Zhe's song) has touched countless people. With Lei Jia's affectionate and feminine singing, the big screen behind her showed a series of moving pictures. Every picture is a sacred land, and every border warrior's face is full of loyalty. Lei Jia said: "Although the faces of the Shubian soldiers have gone through the wind and frost, their youthful smiles are the most touching. ”

Among the military songs, the border guard song has an important position. In the more than 70 years since the founding of New China, it has produced excellent border defense military songs such as "Night of the Military Port", "Fifteen Moons", "Little Poplar", "Speak from the Heart", and "The Great Wall Is Long". These songs sing the affection of border guards for the motherland and their affection for their families.

Under the call of the mission of the times and shouldering heavy responsibilities, Lei Jia, Chen Daobin and Wang Zhe, as literary and artistic soldiers of the army, rushed to the snowy plateau and went deep into the border defense troops. They have long been deep into the army, rooted in the grassroots, and sung for the soldiers.

"Through the canyon, across the glacier, I patrol the long border line; how high I stand, here is called the outpost hanging in the sky..." In the lyric writing of this song, Chen Daobin focused his eyes on the special landform of the roof of the world, and used white painting to show the daily working environment of the officers and men of Shubian. The lyrics are simple and unpretentious, but the words flash with warmth and firmness, faith and ideals, showing the bloodiness of soldiers - "holding a steel gun is a boundary monument" "Inch of land is not to be lost, no matter how small the land under the feet, it also belongs to China"...

Wang Zhe strives to "compose the melody from the perspective of a soldier's inner monologue" and let the music exude a strong military flavor and military rhyme. He hopes to show the flesh and blood of the warrior through the song, and make the song more "heartfelt". On the instrumentation of the song, the melodious trumpet in the prelude and interlude shows the emptiness of the snowy frontier. It is worth mentioning that the male chorus of the chorus part is completed by the border guards, and the chorus not only sets off the beauty of the female soloist, but also reflects the sense of strength of the soldiers, making people feel the tension of this song.

Lei Jia believes that the language emanating from the bottom of her heart is not alarming, and it has its own strength. Therefore, in the A section, she minimized the traces of "singing", adopted a singing method that was close to the proclamation tone, transformed the singing into a confession, and told the daily patrol of the officers and soldiers on the side in a bland manner. In the B section, Lei Jia uses an almost childlike tone to reflect the pure love of the Shubian soldiers. She believes that children's voice is the most simple and natural timbre, the closest to nature. Singing "Please rest assured, motherland" with this voice can better express the pure love and sacred duty of the soldiers for the motherland. "I turn into a soaring eagle, but also to guard the mountains and rivers of the motherland" this sentence is the climax of the whole song, when singing, Lei Jia strengthened the thickness and tension of the timbre, in contrast with the previous children's voice singing, biting the word to pay attention to the tone head, and strive to be both powerful and elastic, so that the song burst out of the inspiring force.

Through more than half a year of repeated chewing and speculation, after three versions of recording, this song lived in Lei Jia's heart, "repeated humming has already turned every word and every note into blood flowing in the body." Lei Jia said that when she sang the song again on the Spring Festival Gala stage, her sincerity and hard work naturally flowed out with the notes, and in front of her was a picture of warriors patrolling, "I myself seem to be transformed into an eagle, soaring freely in the mood of the song."

In recent years, Lei Jia, Chen Daobin, and Wang Zhe, as soldiers of the Literary and Art Light Cavalry Corps, have launched a number of masterpieces praising the new era and praising the main theme of the people's army, such as "Blossoming in a New Era," "The People's Liberation Army is Coming," "Clear Love," and "Chasing the Light." These songs have been widely praised as soon as they were launched and have been widely sung inside and outside the barracks.

Guangming Daily ( 2021-10-08 09 edition)

Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily