Under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping's "one country, two systems" theory, we successfully recovered the sovereignty of Hong Kong (including Kowloon) from the British in 1997. On February 20, 65438, the last lost land of Macao will be recovered from the Portuguese, which will wash away the humiliation of the Chinese nation for more than a hundred years, and at the same time, the last national flags of European and American colonial countries will be torn down all over Asia. It can be said that this is also the biggest highlight of celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Republic of China.
Recently, I watched the exhibition of revolutionary heroic deeds for * * * and the birth of China held by the Museum of Chinese Revolution and the theme song "Macau" sung by the little girl at the beginning of CCTV's "Macau Years" feature film, which reminds me of Mr. Wen Yiduo, the martyr who died for * * * and China and the author of the lyrics of "Macau". This year is also his centenary birthday.
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Wen Yiduo, formerly known as Jiahua, was born in Chen Jialing, Xishui County, Hubei Province. Born in the 25th year of Guangxu (A.D.1899165438+124 October)122 October, he was assassinated by Kuomintang agents on July 1946, at the age of 47. In his short life course, he completed the trilogy of life of a famous poet, scholar and democracy fighter. In fact, his contribution and brilliant achievements to the people of the motherland stop here. Bai Ying, a British professor who was in The National SouthWest Associated University with him, wrote in Impression of Wen Yiduo: "1On the eve of his death in April, 946, Wen Yiduo lived in extreme economic difficulties, and people encouraged him to leave China. The University of California asked him to go to the United States in the summer, but despite his personal difficulties, he refused. This quiet scholar has unlimited talents ... He is the most famous of all professors in the UN General Assembly, and he is a person with a very gentle smile and a very mature mind. " This represents the reverence and high praise of scholars at home and abroad for Mr. Wen. He studied in America in his early years, specializing in western painting and literature. He has successively entered the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Korolav and the new york Art Institute to study hard, and has made great achievements in painting art and theoretical research. After comparative study, he came to the conclusion that "western painting is really not as high as Chinese painting", and later put the painting major on hold. His seal cutting is also famous in contemporary times, but it was only in the late period of the Anti-Japanese War that Kunming's prices soared and his meager salary could not support the livelihood of a family of eight that he had to do some handicrafts in his spare time. A good friend Pu Jiangqing wrote "Xiao Qi" for him, saying, "Mr. Wen Yiduo, a Xishui, is an advanced literary world and a famous scholar of Confucian classics. How many people know the difference between words; Speaking of the origin of elegance, it is highly respected in China. Zhuó @ ① An old hand has never forgotten his habits, so he takes up his spare time and pays attention to freezing. But it is warm and ancient, and is appreciated by intimate friends; When the famous seal * * * is famous in the contemporary era. " At that time, the college was very famous, with as many as nine signatories. But these calligraphy and painting seal cutting skills, he only occasionally do it. In that miserable era, he devoted all his energy to education and became a well-known educator at home and abroad.
During the May 4th Movement, Mr. Wen worked as a student at Tsinghua School in Beijing for nine years. Facing the disastrous motherland and people, he actively participated in the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle. He used pen as a weapon and published many poems and articles. His early major achievement was to create new poems, and published two famous poems, Red Candle and Dead Water. Therefore, its fame in the new poetry circle can be compared with that of Hu Shi, Guo Moruo and Xu Zhimo, and it can be said that it is unique in subject matter, artistic conception and technical style.
1922 After studying in the United States in July, I personally felt the harm of imperialist reactionary thoughts and decadent bourgeois culture to the people. The racial discrimination of American savages, especially the insults and oppression suffered by overseas Chinese, made him sad and angry. In his letter to his parents, he said, "Words can't describe the taste of a thoughtful China youth staying in the United States. When I go home for the Spring Festival at the end of the second year, I will have a good talk with my family, cry bitterly and vent my accumulated anger. I am a citizen of our country, with 5,000 years of history and culture. Why am I not a beauty? Will say that you can't make a gun to kill people, why not be aboveboard? In short, he despises our people. It's a long story. " In order to express his grievances, he published a famous laundry song, one of which is:
You said the laundry was too cheap,
Are only Tang people willing to be cheap?
Your priest, he told me:
Jesus' father was born a carpenter.
Do you believe it or not? Do you believe it or not?
During this period, he also wrote patriotic poems such as "I am from China", "Song of Seven Sons", "Wake Up" and "Elegy under the Great Wall". He admired Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the pioneer of China's revolutionary life. He heard the news of his death in new york, USA. He was very sad and participated in the preparations for the grand memorial service held there. The portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen at the meeting was painted by Wen Yiduo. He also wrote a poem "God of the South China Sea", praising Sun Yat-sen's great historical achievements against imperialism and feudalism.
After studying in the United States for three years, Wen Yiduo finally got tired of life there and returned to the motherland he missed and loved one year earlier than expected. After returning to China, he taught in universities in Shanghai, Qingdao, Beijing and Kunming, and devoted himself to teaching and scientific research. During this period, besides being enthusiastic about the education of young people and caring about their healthy growth, he was determined to explore and study China's ancient classic culture with a new modern viewpoint, and made brilliant achievements in Zhouyi, Zhuangzi, The Book of Songs, Songs of the South, Tang Poems and Ancient Myths.
After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the national disaster struck, and the people painted charcoal. With a clear mind, he traveled thousands of miles to Kunming, the rear area, stuck to his post and gradually walked out of the "ivory tower" where ancient books were buried. Inspired by the leadership of China's * * * production party, he actively participated in the anti-Japanese and national salvation struggle, and joined the China Democratic League together with patriotic youth in 19 44. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he actively opposed the Kuomintang's collusion with the US imperialists to launch a civil war and its autocratic rule. 1946 On the morning of July 1 5, he delivered an impassioned speech denouncing the Kuomintang reactionaries at the memorial service in Li Gongpu, and was killed by Kuomintang agents on the streets of Kunming in the afternoon. The bad news aroused the anger and protest of the revolutionary people in Kunming and the whole country. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China leaders Mao Zedong, Zhu De and Zhou Enlai sent messages of condolence and spoke highly of them. Mao Zedong said in "Farewell to Si Tuleideng": "Wen Yiduo was angry and angry with the Kuomintang pistols, but he would rather not give in ... We should write a eulogy for Wen Yiduo ... They showed the heroism of our nation." So many years have passed, more than 50 years have passed, and this year has ushered in Wen Yiduo's centenary birthday. Let's remember him forever. His knowledge, morality and fearless revolutionary spirit will always inspire Chinese sons and daughters to make progress and build the motherland into a rich and powerful country.
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The theme song "Macau" of the feature film "Macau Years" is the first chapter of Song of Seven Sons, which was created by Wen Yiduo and published on1July 4, 925. At this time, 26-year-old Wen Yiduo had just returned from studying in the United States, and it was also the time when the "May 30th Massacre" in Shanghai formed a vigorous anti-imperialist patriotic movement nationwide. Song of Seven Sons is an epic that educates people in patriotism. The history of China's national tragedy in modern times is narrated from the poetic language and form. Because he stayed in the United States for three years, he was deeply saddened by the miserable life of his compatriots under foreign rule, so he remembered the sadness of the seven sons in the poem "Kaifeng" and wrote this touching poem.
In front of this poem, the author wrote a long preface: "The mother of seven children is restless." Seven sons feel sorry for themselves, hoping to return to their mother's heart. The poet wrote "Kai Feng" to praise it. From the "Nebuchadnezzar Chu Treaty" to the "Luda Concession", our country lost its land, lost the support of the motherland and suffered all kinds of abuse. His sadness surpassed that of the Seven sons of Kaifeng, because he chose seven places with the closest relationship with China and wrote a chapter for each song. To express his loneliness and death, to be pregnant with the sorrow of the motherland at an early date, and to inspire the people to prosper. The collapse of the national border is a long-term accumulation, and the people of China are indifferent to it. Can't they see the French alsace-lorraine? Sincerely, the stone can be opened. At this rate, the return of China's "seven sons" is in danger! "
Why does the author imitate the meaning of Kaifeng in the Book of Songs? Because the Book of Songs was widely read by young students at that time, using it as an allusion can increase readers' interest and association and enhance the appeal of poetry. Let's analyze this preface a little first:
Tai was a small country enfeoffed by the Zhou people after the demise of Shang Dynasty, located in the north of Chao Ge, Shangdu (now tangyin county, Henan Province). The national song of the Thai nationality is called Taifeng, which is one of the fifteen national styles in The Book of Songs. Kaifeng is the seventh poem of Taifeng, and the opening words of the first sentence "Kaifeng from the South" can be used as the title of the poem. The whole poem consists of four chapters, sixteen sentences and sixty-four words. It is about a mother who wants to abandon her seven children and run away from home. All seven children blame themselves for breaking their mother's heart. Wen Yiduo felt that his land-lost compatriots had lost their homes and were oppressed by other nationalities, so he imitated this poem and anthropomorphized seven places, namely Macau, Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province, Ahava, Guangzhou Bay, Kowloon and Lushun Dalian, which were ceded and leased successively, and wrote the Song of Seven Sons. The whole poem has the same style, with seven lines in each chapter, and the last sentence is "Mother! I want to come back, mom! " This article is touching and inspiring the people of China to recover their lost land like the French. Alsace-Lorraine is located in the northeast of France. 187 1 year France was defeated in the Franco-Prussian War and the region was ceded to Germany. It took 47 years, and was finally recovered after the First World War in 19 18. Finally, the author points out that as long as we work together, we can recover our lost ground soon.
The following are the lyrics of the theme song "Macau" of "Macau Years":
Do you know that "Ma Gang" is not my real name?
I've been away from your children for too long, mom!
But what they took was my body,
You still have my soul.
I've dreamed of my biological mother for 300 years!
Please call me by my real name and Macau.
Mom! I want to come back, mom!
Macao is a peninsula on the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary in Guangdong Province. According to documents, as early as the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1557), Portuguese businessmen began to rent a corner of this peninsula with the consent of Ming government officials. At that time, the name "Macao" did not appear. The southern tip of the peninsula was called Haojing 'ao in ancient times, and its name has been written in Ming history. "There are two bays in southern Australia, and the rules are as round as a mirror." Later it was called Macau, so it got its name because there are two mountains, South Taiwan Province and Beitaiwan, which are more like doors. Its land was built here by the people of Fujian and Guangdong during Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty (1465- 1487), so the new Portuguese named it "Macau". The poem says "Ma Gang" is not my real name, please call my real name "Macau". It has been more than 300 years since the Portuguese rented this land in the Ming Dynasty to 1925. However, the patriotism and national beliefs of Macao compatriots will not change, and no one can change the profound cultural traditions of the Chinese nation. The souls of Macao compatriots will always belong to the motherland, and they look forward to returning to their mothers' arms as soon as possible day and night. With the development of western colonialism, the Portuguese occupied more and more areas in Macao. It was not until 1887 (13th year of Guangxu reign of Qing Dynasty) that China and Portugal signed the Treaty of Peace and Commerce, allowing the Portuguese to "live permanently" that Macao really became a colony. However, one hundred years later, on 1987, China and Portugal signed the Joint Declaration on Macao, which clearly stipulated that China would recover its sovereignty on199965438+February 20.
This poem by Mr. Wen Yiduo is full of a child's attachment to his mother. It was sung by a little girl in Macau, and everyone with conscience in China could not help crying after listening to it.
Macau is the earliest and latest territory occupied by western colonialists in China, and we will recover it within this year. The other six places mentioned in the poem have all returned before this. The original poems in each chapter are omitted, and only the recovery situation is briefly introduced to comfort Mr. Wen Yiduo's heroism and make readers understand the whole history.
Hongkong: treaty of nanking 1842 China and Britain were ceded to Britain, and it was recovered on July/997 1 day.
Taiwan Province Province:/kloc-0 was ceded to Japan in accordance with Sino-Japanese treaty of shimonoseki in 895,/kloc-0 was reclaimed after World War II in 945 (it is still occupied by the remnants of the Kuomintang and has not yet completed the great cause of reunification).
Ahava: 1889 was forcibly occupied by the German army and recovered in 1930.
Guangzhou Bay: the old name of Zhanjiang Port. 1898, China and France signed the lease treaty of Guangzhou Bay occupied by France. 1943 transfer to Japan. 1945 signed the Sino-French Special Agreement on Resolving Land Lease in Guangzhou Bay, returned it to China, and now Zhanjiang City is built.
Kowloon: 1860 British occupation of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, 1898 forced lease of the area south of Shenzhen River and nearby islands. July 1997 Recovered with Hong Kong.
Lushun and Dalian: 1898 signed the Sino-Russian Convention and Treaty, which was leased by the emperor and Russia. It was occupied by Japan after the Russo-Japanese War. Since 1950, it has been under the control of China and the Soviet Union, and 1955 was taken back by China.