After the "9.18" incident
He wrote China's first song on the theme of "Resisting Japan and Saving the Dead"
Folk song jun
On September 18, 1931, Japanese imperialism brazenly launched the "September 18 Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries, opening the prelude to an all-out armed aggression against China and, in turn, Asia and the Pacific.
The flames of war were ignited on the land of China, arousing the anti-Japanese anger of the sons and daughters of China, and the broad masses of the people and people from all walks of life actively participated in the anti-Japanese salvation movement in various forms. Among them, there is Huang Zi, a professor and academic director of the Shanghai National Conservatory of Music (the predecessor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music), and a famous composer, theorist and educator who was later praised by the music industry as the "King of Patriotic Songs".
Huang Zi was born in 1904 in Chuansha County, Jiangsu Province (now part of Pudong New Area, Shanghai). Since his parents were progressive, he received a good education from an early age, quick thinking, and broad vision. Huang went to the United States to study at the age of 20, and traveled to various European countries after graduation until he returned to Shanghai in 1929 to teach at Hujiang University. The following year, he was hired by Xiao Youmei, president of shanghai music college, to serve as a professor and academic director of the school.
Xiao Youmei and Huang Zi took a group photo with the students
As the only full-time teacher in the theoretical composition group at that time, Huang Zi alone undertook 11 classroom teachings, carrying the "four major pieces" of harmony, polyphony, melody and instrumentation, and also taught two school-wide common courses in Western music history and music appreciation, cultivating he Luting, Liu Xue'an, Jiang Dingxian, Chen Tianhe, Qian Renkang and other modern music pioneers, and was the founder of the greatest influence on early music education in China.
The world rises and falls, and the pirate is responsible. The outbreak of the "September 18 Incident" broke Huang Zijing's teaching career. At the age of 27, he is as indignant as countless enthusiastic young people with patriotic feelings. Huang Zi, who originally hoped that "the meaning of music itself is music itself, not disturbed by the outside world", proposed that "for the survival of the entire nation, music should be turned into weapons to arm tens of millions of compatriots!" ", to arouse the patriotic will of the people to resist the enemy.
China's first "Anti-Japanese Salvation" theme song "Anti-Enemy Song"
To this end, Huang Zi led the teachers and students of the music college out of the school gate, went to many places to publicize the anti-Japanese salvation, and collected donations for the anti-Japanese soldiers. It was also at this time that he wrote China's first patriotic song "Anti-Japanese Song" with the theme of "Anti-Japanese Salvation": Who is the master of China's splendid rivers and mountains? We are forty million compatriots! The strong captives will be fierce and violent, and the rapid and permanent resistance will be revenge. The family can be destroyed, the country must be protected; the body can be killed, and the will is indomitable. Unite with one heart and one mind, and strive to kill the enemy and swear not to spare...
Anti-enemy song
Music:
Shanghai Youth Choir - Forever Huang Zi - Special Edition of the 100th Anniversary of Mr. Huang Zi's Birth
China Opera and Dance Theater Choir "Song of Resistance"
After the composition of "Anti-Japanese Song" was completed, wei Hanzhang, a famous modern lyricist, filled in the second lyrics. On November 9, 1931, students of the National College of Music sang the work for the first time on a radio station in Shanghai, and it was made into a record by Victory Corporation, and soon sang all over the country. However, due to the ban of the Nationalist government at that time, the "Anti-Japanese Song" was renamed "Anti-Enemy Song".
Central Opera House Choir "Song of Resistance"
This is a sonorous and powerful and imposing choral work, singing the firm determination of the Chinese people to swear to die to serve the country, expressing the hatred of 40,000 compatriots for the invaders and their love for the motherland, and was one of the most famous patriotic songs at that time, which played a propaganda and encouraging role in the anti-Japanese upsurge.
Huang is a manuscript from part of the Song of Resistance
To this day, "Song of Resistance" is still a key song, whether it is its own artistic connotation or the special significance given to it by history, it is worth savoring.
"Song of Resistance" in film and television works
In 2015, under the guidance of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, and planned by the China Recording Corporation, "The Voice of Justice - A Collection of 100 Excellent Anti-War Songs" was placed first. It is worth mentioning that the second-ranked "Flag Is Fluttering" was also created by Huang Zi and Wei Hanzhang.
China Broadcasting Art Troupe Chorus - Voice of Justice - 100 excellent anti-war song collection
The flag is fluttering
Central Orchestra Chorus - Voice of Justice - 100 outstanding anti-war songs
At the end of March 1933, Huang Zi led the teachers and students of the music college to hold two "Encouragement of Enemy Support Concerts" in Hangzhou, with "Anti-Enemy Song" and "Flag Fluttering" as the finale repertoire. The commentary of Shanghai's Zhonghua Daily wrote: "The tragedy is fierce and intense, and the hearers rise up." Inspiring the enemy is worthy of the name. Huang Zi, who created works such as "Anti-Enemy Song", "Folk Song", "Remember in Mind", "Gift to Former Enemy Soldiers", "Long Hate Song", "Flag Fluttering" and other works, was also praised by the music industry at that time as "the king of patriotic songs".
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the "September 18 Incident", and we revisit the classic work of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, "Song of Resistance against the Enemy", taking history as a mirror and facing the future; remembering the martyrs, do not forget the national shame!