What kind of song is "When the King Will Come Again" and how did it come about?
When Liu Xue'an was still studying at shanghai music college, he was hired by Shanghai Yihua Film Company as a special composer. Founded in the early 1930s, the film company, under the control of a Communist film group headed by Xia Yan, had become an important position for left-wing films. Tian Han and Shi Dongshan have all worked here and have filmed a number of progressive films such as "National Survival" and "The Furious Tide of the China Sea". In 1936, with the financial support of China Huagong Industrial Society, the company filmed a song and dance film "Three Stars with the Moon". This is a film that reflects the difficulties of China's national industrialists and businessmen in starting a business under the circumstances of the abundance of foreign capital enterprises and the flooding of foreign goods in the market.
When the film began, director Fang Peilin asked Liu Xue'an to write a tango song for the film, and Liu Xue'an gave him a tango dance song in hand. This is an unnamed dance song, an improvisation by Liu Xue'an at the tea party of the graduation of the music college. On that day, the junior students asked the big brothers of the graduating class to write a work to perform at the meeting, and Liu Xue'an immediately wrote this tango dance song, which was played on the spot by Russian classmates and was very popular.
After Fang Peilin got this dance song, without consulting with Liu Xue'an, he let the screenwriter Huang Jiamu fill in the lyrics, which became the famous song "He Rijun Again": "Good flowers do not often bloom, good scenes are not often there; sorrowful eyebrows are solved, tears are sprinkled with acacia belts." After parting this evening, He Rijun will come again. ”
The lyrics consist of four paragraphs, followed by overlapping sentences, preceded by:
"Xiaolu wet atrium, agarwood floating outdoors; jackdaw jade trees, bright moon shining on the high platform."
"Jade leakage is frequently urged, good days can not be returned, a moment of gold prices, bitter drinking Mo wandering."
"Stop singing Yang Guan Die, re-energize the white jade cup; be attentive and frequent, and firmly caress the king's heart."
The dance music became a song, Liu Xue'an did not know in advance, and later saw the lyrics, and felt a little vulgar about some of the words such as "After drinking this cup, please come in a small dish". He had this view to his friend Pan Xiaonong at that time, but due to his affection, he did not put it forward to director Fang Peilin, but only asked to use the pen name of "Yanru" when signing his name. Why did the director change the tango song to the song "When the Sun Comes Again"? In what scene did the song appear? Or let's take a look at the story of the film —
Industrialist Jiang Liyuan rose up to open the Xinghua factory for the production of daily necessities under the fierce competition between national industry and commerce and foreign capital; his son Jiang Zongliang, who studied in the United States, was a chemical engineering student and originally planned to stay in the United States to work after completing his studies, but he was ordered by his father to return to China and served as the manager of the Xinghua factory. The film tells the story of Jiang Zongliang's establishment of a factory at the same time, but also tells his love story.
For the development of the factory, Jiang Zongliang decided to open a radio advertising business and needed to recruit a singer. Wang Xiuwen, an unemployed female singer at home, came to apply, successfully passed the assessment, and entered the Xinghua factory. Her euphemistic singing voice deeply attracted Jiang Zongliang, and they fell in love. But later due to a misunderstanding, the relationship was interrupted. Xiuwen painfully offered to resign, saying that he wanted to leave the factory. Jiang Zongliang regretted it...
At this time, a classmate of Jiang Zongliang, who worked in the factory, successfully tried to produce a new product. The factory held a grand celebration party, performing the song and dance drama "Three Stars with the Moon" and "Craft to Save the Country". Xiuwen was also invited to sing at the meeting, and she sang a song "When the Sun Jun Comes Again" with great affection. The affectionate and mournful melody and the touching lyrics fully express the pain and sorrow of the heroine suffering from the setback of love.
The singer in the film was played by Zhou Xuan, who was famous in the film world at that time, and "He Rijun's Return" was sung by herself. Her singing voice deeply touched the audience, making "When the Sun Jun Comes Again" not shy away. In particular, after the release of the album, it spread more widely and became a popular song.
In 1939, Cai Chusheng's anti-Japanese film "Lonely Island Paradise" used the song "He Rijun Again". Lili Li, an actress who played a dancer in the film, recalled: "In this film, I played a northern dancer in exile in Shanghai. She sympathized with and supported a group of patriotic youths who lived on the same floor and developed feelings for their leader, the Mysterious Youth. After hearing the information on the activities of the enemy, this dancer participated in an action plan agreed upon by the patriotic youth: At a ball, she sang the song "He Rijun Will Come Again" as a code for action, covering the patriotic youth to skillfully wipe out the enemy and then move across the wall to join the anti-Japanese guerrillas. By the time I sang the last two sentences, the plan had been successfully realized and the patriotic youth were evacuating. I looked at the distant back of the 'mysterious youth' and sang 'After parting tonight, when the sun will come again', at that time and place, a pun. ”
"When the Sun Comes Again" also spread to Japan. Japanese singer Hamako Watanabe sang "Ho Ri Jun Again" in Japanese and produced a record that was very popular. Another Japanese singer, Shuko Yamaguchi, sang "When the Sun Comes Again" repeatedly. Her father worked in northeast China and she grew up in Fushun. As a child, she was adopted by her father's friend Li Jichun, the general manager of Shenyang Bank, and named Li Xianglan. She loved singing since she was a child and later became a singer and actress. She especially likes Zhou Xuan's songs, and has a preference for "He Rijun Again", singing in both Chinese and Japanese languages, and producing Chinese records that sell well in Japan. Later, she successively starred in the film "The Song of Bailan", which advocated Japan's policy of invading China, and the film "Symphony of Tribulations" produced by the pseudo-Manchu "Film and Painting Association", in which she sang "He Rijun Again".
Li Xianglan likes "He Rijun Again", and in addition to singing in Chinese, she also translates it into Japanese. The Japanese version of "He Rijun Again" spread to the Japanese military camp, and it was also warmly welcomed, and everyone sang it. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and it was not long before the Chinese and Japanese versions of "He Rijun Will Come Again" were banned by the Japanese inspection organs. The reason for the Japanese version of the ban on singing is that the lingering sound of silence will make the Japanese military discipline lax; as for the Japanese government's banning of the Chinese version of "He Rijun's Return" in the Chinese-occupied areas, it is mainly suspected that the Chinese people are expecting the Nationalist army to counterattack and rescue them with this song. At the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese troops in the Area of Nanjing and Shanghai knew that they were going to lose the battle, but they were unwilling to lose, so they thought of a bad idea and even made a decision on "When the Emperor Will Come Again" to make a decision. According to Duan Caihua, a veteran writer, he was an 11-year-old child at the time, and he personally saw the Japanese change the "He" character of "He Rijun again" to "He" and "Jun" to "Jun". In this way, "He Rijun will come again" will become "He Japanese army will come again"!
This incident of tampering with the lyrics seriously affected the people's hearts, and was soon discovered by our intelligence personnel behind enemy lines and reflected in Chongqing, the capital of the rear at that time. Chairman Chiang Kai-shek of the National Government was so angry that he personally ordered the whole country to ban the singing of this song. At the same time, the record company that published "He Rijun Returns" also took back and destroyed all the records that had not been sold, and the radio station was not allowed to play the song. Soon the song went from great to great, and it has been silent ever since.