"Understanding the History of the Party Red Literature and Art Micro-Review" Essay No. 46
Cheng Yuexiu (Shaoguan Writers Association)
"The cows are still grazing on the hillside, but the cattle herders are nowhere to be found. It wasn't that he was playing and losing his cattle, but that the cowherding child Wang Erxiao..." I took my little daughter to play happily on the grass of the mine park, but I was attracted by the erhu accompanying song coming from the pavilion next to me.
"Sing Two Little Cattle Herding"! How long have you not heard this song?
I took my daughter's hand and walked quietly over. It turned out that it was a little girl of about eight or nine years old practicing songs. Round face, big shining eyes, very beautiful appearance. Next to her sat an old man with white hair and a tough face, a white shirt and black trousers, and his body gently swung with the movement of pulling erhu. I suppose they are grandchildren. The clear and childish children's voice is accompanied by a crying erhu sound, which makes people can't bear to disturb. I listened in silence. When he heard that "the enemy picked the second child on the tip of the gun and fell to his death on top of a large stone" and heard that "the cadres and fellow villagers were safe, but he slept in the cold mountains", he could not help but burst into tears.
And my touch, first, is because of the tragedy of the story and the poignant melody of the melody in this song.
"Singing Two Little Cattle Herding" was composed by Fang Bing and composed by Li Haofu, and was created in the middle of the War of Resistance Against Japan. The song adopts the genre of narrative songs and tells a moving story: in 1942, in Laiyuan County, Hebei Province, there was a children's group named Wang Erxiao. At the age of 13, he often herded cattle while giving sentries to the Eighth Route Army. One day, when the Japanese devils were sweeping a ravine, in order to cover thousands of compatriots and cadres, he was resourceful and brave, regardless of his own life, he led the enemy into the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army. Finally knowing that he had been deceived, the Japanese devils angrily picked Wang Erxiao on the tip of the gun and fell to his death on top of the large stone. The devils were eliminated, the cadres and villagers were saved, but Wang Erxiao gave up his young and precious life. "The autumn wind blows through every village, and it spreads this moving story. With tears in their eyes, every fellow sang about the two little cattle herding." The story of Wang Erxiao's heroic sacrifice soon spread throughout the Liberated Areas, and the front page of the Jin-Cha-Ji Daily reported the heroic story of Wang Erxiao. According to reports, fang bing and Li Haofu, literary and art warriors in the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, also quickly collaborated to create this famous children's song "Singing Erxiao Cattle Herding".
The song uses a melody that combines the four-sentence structure of the beginning and the end to sing multiple lyrics. Although the seven lyrics are sung repeatedly with the same tune, because the lyrics are vivid in narrative, the tune is beautiful and beautiful, and the feeling is deep and gentle, it does not feel monotonous and boring, but it feels long and long, touching and heartfelt.
A children's song has been sung in the land of China for decades, from the beacon years to the peacetime era, from the childish children to the elderly, and it has lasted for a long time. Why is it that every time you sing or listen to it, it still makes people tear up? I think this is the charm of the song, the shocking heart of the heroic story, and the passing on of the fearless revolutionary spirit.
This song has aroused the boiling blood of many people. A 13-year-old child, not afraid of sacrifice, not to be a slave to the country, vowed to defend his family to the death, and carried the banner of the Chinese nation with his small shoulders. There are also Yu Lai, Hai Wa, Zhang Ga, Liu Hulan... The names of young heroes are forever engraved in the history of the rise of the nation. In our land, which was once full of holes, thousands of heroic martyrs have thrown their heads and spilled their blood to cast the flower of hope of the nation. What reason do we have to crawl on the ground and let others slaughter us? Stand up with your chest up, be an upright Chinese, defend every inch of our land, defend our motherland and people! Even in the good years, we should not forget the national shame in order to forge ahead courageously, and we should also inherit and carry forward this revolutionary spirit in order to make the motherland stand in the invincible forest of the world's nations.
Heroes don't ask about provenance, and heroes don't ask about age. In the more than a year since the new crown has been raging, how many young faces have been like a real adult, pressing the bright red handprint to forget life and death "anti-epidemic" on the front line. The backbone of the Chinese nation stands in the arrogance of the diseased hand dancing. In the Zhengzhou flood relief in July this year, the childish-looking firefighter carefully held a baby in his arms, serious and solemn. The sight of older children holding their young children in the flood is touching. This is love and responsibility, and this is the future and hope of a nation. "If the youth is strong, then the country is strong"!
Today, the clouds are light and the wind is light, and the warblers sing and swallow dance. A child and an old man, on the other hand, used their way to "spread the moving story" and conveyed to me a kind of endless power.
How long has it been since you heard this song? In today's flood of popular songs, in the mood of the ego or tearing heart out, or miserable resentment. Small children may also be able to sing "Little Stars", "Two Tigers", etc., while older children, in the ignorant youth period, are not too small, not big enough, what songs can they sing? How many other children will sing "Singing Two Little Cowherds"? How many other children will sing "Sing a Mountain Song to the Party"? If you ask him to learn to sing "Ten Send the Red Army" he will definitely dump you: "Then who will sing the songs of the old soil?" When the child's childish voice flutters with words like "brother brother I don't go, sister accompany you to the white head", please don't blame the child. "Children without singing" has become a major lack in children's art education. The old nursery rhymes are dirty, and the new nursery rhymes are not picked up. Tell your child to sing "Catch the Loach," and he probably doesn't even know what a loach is. In the information age, children passively listen to adult songs of love and love, and absorb adult culture. Some positive and stylish songs that are more popular with children, such as "The Nation", are few and far between.
The dilemma of "children not singing" is caused by complex problems in social development, deviations in education, and a game of market economic interests.
The singing of children's songs plays a subtle role in the cultivation and education of children's personality, is the spiritual food of children, and is also an effective way to better inherit our excellent traditional culture and excellent revolutionary spirit. How to let children have songs to sing and be willing to sing is an urgent problem.
So, another reason why my tears are slipping today is that I heard a little girl singing "Singing Two Little Cattle Herding Cows" with a clear singing voice, which deeply touched my heart. At the same time, I also feel sincerely disappointed by my touch - when did it start that listening to a child sing a red song became a luxury? The song we had been singing as children seemed to have faded from my ears for a long time, and we had long forgotten it in the restless pop songs of the moment. However, this white-haired and upright old man did not forget. I believe that he must have experienced those years of fiery suffering, so he will have a special love for revolutionary songs. As for the little girl, I believe that she can also read the meaning and spirit of the lyrics, so she can sing so passionately.
After a song, I was surprised that my 4-year-old daughter had red eyes. She whispered in my ear, "Mom, that sister's song is so nice." I feel so sad. ”
Later, I told my daughter the story of Wang Erxiao on the grass. Next, I'll teach her to sing a song called "Singing Two Little Cowherds," or more.