China's birthday can not be messed up with the Mandarin Duck Spectrum - discuss with Han Jingting's old predecessors

China's birthday can not be messed with Mandarin ducks

——Discuss with Han Jingting's old predecessors

Wang Wenchao

Today is your birthday, my China.

In the morning I release a flock of white pigeons,

Bring you an olive leaf...

This song, written by Han Jingting and composed by Gu Jianfen, was sung in the north and south of the motherland. This is a hymn that is loved by the people of the whole country. It has a distinct patriotic theme, highlights the expectations of the sons and daughters of China for the "peace" of the motherland, and sings the common voice of the sons and daughters of the motherland.

However, this song, which we have been singing for decades, implies a great mistake: "Today is your birthday, my China." This argument is untenable.

Our great motherland is an ancient country with a long history of five thousand years. As early as the 21st century BC, one of the world's earliest slave states appeared on the land of China, the Xia Dynasty. Before the Xia Dynasty, there were also the legendary Yellow Emperor, Yan Emperor, and Yao Shunyu era. If we divide the long history of our country, it can be divided into the stage of primitive clans and tribes, the stage of slave kingdoms, the stage of feudal empires, and the stage of socialist republics. We can't verify exactly what year the original clan tribal stage originated, nor can we know exactly when the Xia Dynasty began, so China's birthday will probably always be a historical mystery.

On October 1, 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong solemnly announced to the world from the tower of Tiananmen Square: "The People's Republic of China has been founded!" "This day has also become the national day of New China, and it has become the birthday of New China. But we should never interpret him as a Chinese birthday. Taking the birthday of New China as China's birthday is to sever the long history of the entire Chinese nation, which is easy to misunderstand and untenable. The history of China should never be just the history of New China.

So I feel the need to change this lyric to "Today is your birthday, my new China" or "My Republic".