How did the Chinese national anthem come about? Why has it been sung all over the world?
Recently, the animated short film "Song of New China" created by the young Chris of Turkmenistan has caught fire. Although created by Crooked Nuts, the short film tells a little-known history that even Chinese, and looks back at the behind-the-scenes story of the birth of the "March of the Volunteers" and the singing of it around the world.
During a chance visit to the museum, Ao Dai, the instructor of the "See China Foreign Youth Video Project", was deeply attracted by the story of the birth of the "Volunteer March", and she immediately recommended this topic to the members of the Shanghai tour she directed. The "Look at China • Foreign Youth Film Project" is a cultural experience project for foreign youth to shoot and tell Chinese stories, aiming to show the diverse face of China and promote cross-cultural communication among young people through the unique perspective of foreign youth.
Chrissy, a young foreign director from the School of Journalism and Communication of Shanghai University, and Tian Hongmin, a Chinese producer, immediately fell in love with this in-depth and meaningful topic and threw themselves into the creation. They meticulously prepared, repeatedly conceived, visited a number of historical sites of the Chinese national anthem, collected more than 100,000 words of text materials, restored thousands of pictures, and finally created a short film "Song of New China" in a flexible and interesting way of stop-motion animation. Director Chrissy said: "During the filming process, I had a fuller understanding of Chinese history, and I was considered a 'half' history expert."
The short film not only tells the process of the birth of the Chinese national anthem, but also tells the vivid story of this unusual song from "China" to "the world". Thanks to the efforts of patriot Liu Liangmo and others, the March of the Volunteer Army has been disseminated around the world. At an open-air concert in the United States in 1940, the famous singer Paul Robertson, a political activist and activist for black american and trade union rights, sang "The March of the Volunteers" in chinese. At the same time, he also made an English version of the album "Chee-LaiSongs of New China" for "Volunteer March", and Song Qingling personally wrote the preface to the album, and the "Chee-Lai" in the album is a transliteration of "get up". The album was well received overseas, and "Chee Lai" was widely sung on the anti-fascist battlefield of the world. When the film was screened, an audience member said, "The first time I heard the English version of the national anthem, it was very interesting, and many of the details were not even understood Chinese. ”
On the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Institute of Chinese Culture and International Communication of Beijing Normal University, the China Foreign Book Publishing and Distribution Center (International Communication Development Center), the Shanghai Vancouver Film Academy of Shanghai University, the School of Journalism and Communication of Shanghai University, and Shenzhen Yawen Education culture and Media Co., Ltd. jointly launched this short film. In that era of smoke and smoke, the "March of the Volunteer Army" full of courage and fighting spirit has awakened the hope of countless Chinese people, and I believe that the dissemination of this short film will also let more people understand the spiritual power behind the Chinese national anthem.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Gu Wanquan Zhang Wu Text Editor: Fang Ying
Source: Author: China Net