Chinese people's Volunteer Army's battle song, formerly known as defeating the Wolf of American imperialism. Composition: 1950, written by Ma Fuyong, the instructor of the 5th Company of the 26th Regiment of the former First Artillery Division, and composed by Zhou.
This song, in a gradual form, is magnificent and has a sonorous rhythm. 1954 In March, it won the first prize in the "National Pop Song Selection in Recent Three Years" organized by the Ministry of Culture and the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. It was a very popular song.
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/kloc-in the summer of 0/950, in order to prepare for the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the 26th Regiment of a certain unit of the First Artillery Corps left for Yalu River to prepare for its departure. At the resolution meeting held by Company 5, the resolutions of several classes all read "Defending peace and the motherland means defending hometown";
Some soldiers wrote the sentence "Brave and fearless, cross the Yalu River" in their speeches, and almost all the speeches contained the slogan "Defeat the wolf of American ambition". Even instructor Ma Fuyao recorded the voices of the soldiers, and after several revisions and supplements, he wrote a resolution in the form of poetry.
At the swearing-in meeting of the whole regiment going abroad to fight, Ma Fuyong spoke on behalf of the commanders and fighters of the whole company. As an introduction, this decision was warmly welcomed.
After the meeting, Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Bojian interviewed Ma Fuyong and thought the poem was well written. He proposed several amendments such as changing "Crossing the Yalu River" to "Crossing the Yalu River", and then wrote a battlefield newsletter, which was published in People's Daily 1950+065438 on June 26th.
1950165438+1On the afternoon of October 26th, composer Zhou came to the residence of Tian Han, director of the Art Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Culture. When he was reading the People's Daily that day, he saw the article "Talking about Several Soldiers of the Chinese people's Volunteer Army Army" published on the front page, with a poem quoted at the beginning.
Zhou was moved by the heroism of this poem and the patriotism, internationalism and revolutionary heroism of the volunteer soldiers, so he enthusiastically devoted himself to writing and immediately set it to music. It only took about half an hour to finish the song, and the last poem was chosen as the title.
1950165438+1October 30th, People's Daily published this song. As the author of this poem was unknown at that time, this song was only written by Zhou.
Later, after many investigations by the army, the author of this poem was finally found.
1954 national excellent song selection, this song won the first prize. The title of the song was officially named "Battle Hymn of Chinese people's Volunteer Army".
"Heroic and heroic, crossing the Yalu River ..." At that time, this passionate and magnificent battle song touched the heartstrings of many people, and I don't know how many volunteers bravely went to the battlefield filled with smoke to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
In that war, countless Chinese sons and daughters shed blood on the land of North Korea, and history will always remember their famous names.
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