Song of Seven Sons is a group of poems written by Wen Yiduo, a famous scholar in China, during his study in the United States in 1925. The full text consists of seven poems, symbolizing seven China territories occupied by foreign powers, namely Macau, Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province, Ahava, Guangzhou Bay, Kowloon and Luda (Lushun-Dalian). The song of the seven sons, which we often listen to, is only the first of the seven sons.
Song of Seven Sons was written in March 1925, when Wen Yiduo was in new york. In its preface, alsace-lorraine is translated into Lorraine region, which is located at the foot of Faust Mountain in eastern France. It was ceded to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War and returned after the Treaty of Versailles. In the poem, Wen Yiduo compares seven pieces of "lost land" plundered by foreign powers to seven children who are far away from their mothers, crying about their strong feelings of being bullied by foreign countries and eager to return to their mothers' arms. On the one hand, poetry expresses nostalgia and praise for the motherland, on the other hand, it expresses the curse to the imperialist powers.
/kloc-in the summer of 0/925, Wen Yiduo returned from studying in the United States. Walking off the ship, the poet could hardly restrain his excitement, threw his suit and tie into the river and rushed to the embrace of his motherland.
However, what awaits him is boundless darkness and great shame. ...
Looking at home, the mountains and rivers are broken, the wind and rain are like a rock, the jackals are in power, the powers are rampant, and the motherland is divided up ... The poet wrote the poem "Discovery" in grief and indignation, and immediately published the famous patriotic poem "Song of Seven Sons" in Modern Review. "Seven sons" refers to seven pieces of land occupied by foreign powers at that time, and Macao is only one of the "seven sons". The seven sons of the motherland are Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan Province Province, Kowloon, Ahava, Guangzhou Bay and Luda (Lushun and Dalian).
History will never forget 1842 that humiliating August, when an honest official grovelled aboard the British warship Cornwallis anchored on the Nanjing River and signed the first unequal treaty in China's modern history-China-Britain treaty of nanking. According to the treaty, China ceded Hong Kong Island to Britain, which opened the prelude for foreign powers to carve up China.
1860, China and Britain signed the Beijing Treaty, and Britain occupied the southern tip of Kowloon Peninsula. 1898, the Qing government was forced to sign the "Special Provisions on Expanding the Border of Hong Kong", which classified the rest of the Kowloon Peninsula, a "sister of Hong Kong", as "New Territories" and leased it to Britain for 99 years.
1887, China and Portugal signed the Treaty of Friendship and Trade, and the Portuguese who were allowed to stay in Macao in the name of "drying goods" in the middle of the Ming Dynasty seized the "Lotus Land" from then on.
1895, China and Japan signed the treaty of shimonoseki, and Taiwan Province Province, a treasure island in the East China Sea, was ceded to Japan, together with her twin brother Lushun and Dalian on the Bohai Bay (leased by the Russian Empire).
1898, China and Britain signed the Special Terms for Ahava, and Ahava, the "master of preventing the sea", rented Britain for 25 years.
1899, China and France signed the Special Terms for Lease of Guangzhou Bay, and the iron lock at the back door of China (now Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province) was leased to France.
By 1900, the imperialist powers had forcibly opened hundreds of commercial ports on the land of China, and delineated more than 20 concessions in more than 10 cities. The "seven sons of China" fell apart under the arrogance of imperialist powers such as Britain, France, Japan and Russia. There is a poem that represents the mentality of patriots at that time: "When I was sleeping in China, I didn't know that patriotism meant loving my family. People should wake up today and don't wait for the soil to crack like a melon."
Seven sons shed tears, and the poet sang a sad song alone. Wen Yiduo witnessed with his own eyes the "ruin of the country over the years" and felt that the homeland of the motherland "lost its support in the motherland and was abused by others". "Because I chose seven places that have the closest relationship with China, I wrote a chapter in each song to express my loneliness and death, to pin my grief over the early demise of the motherland, and to inspire the people to prosper."
The strong feelings of loving the motherland and longing for reunification between the lines immediately aroused strong repercussions among readers. A young man surnamed Wu wrote in a letter to the editorial department: "After reading Song of Seven Sons, I didn't know that my eyes were full of tears after hearing one sad sentence after another. When I read Models and Chen Qingbiao, I was not so moved. "
The "seven sons of China" captured by the great powers is a symbol of national tragedy and national disaster. It shows that: "the weak of the country is humiliated" and "being behind will be beaten"; It warned the people of China: "The Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time!"
/kloc-for more than 0/00 years, generations of Chinese sons and daughters have come forward for the sake of national prosperity and national independence, throwing their heads, spilling their blood and going forward bravely, and writing magnificent historical poems.
The indomitable will of the people of China to pursue reunification has merged into an unstoppable torrent. 1930 10, China recovered Ahava; 1945, the people of China defeated the Japanese invaders. 10 year 10 On October 25th, Ando Rikichi, the last Japanese governor in Taiwan Province Province, submitted a surrender letter to the China government in Zhongshan Hall, Taipei, and Taiwan Province Province returned to Chinese territory. At the same time, Guangzhou Bay, Lushun and Dalian have also returned to the embrace of the motherland.
Great changes have taken place in the motherland, and the people of China have stood up since then!
Wen Yiduo's son said, "May my father know under the grave and have fun with us." Faith can move mountains. In fact, the return of "China Seven Sons" is in jeopardy! -Wen Yiduo's "Song of the Seven Sons, Preface to Poetry"
Brief introduction of the author
Wen Yiduo (1899- 1946), formerly known as Wen Jiahua, also known as Duo Duo, Yi Duo, and the word You San, You Shan. China was a great patriot in modern times, a staunch democratic fighter, an early leader of China Democratic League, a close friend, poet and scholar of China Communist Party. The representative poet of crescent school.
Guangxu of Qing Dynasty,1October 22 (1899165438+1October 24) was born in Xiabahe Town, Qishui County, Hubei Province.
19 12 was admitted to Tsinghua University, and likes reading China's ancient poems, poems, history books and notes. 19 16 began to publish a series of reading notes in Tsinghua Weekly, collectively called February Lu. Write old-style poems at the same time. 19 19 actively participated in the student movement during the may 4th movement, and once represented the school at the National Student Union Conference (Shanghai).
1April, 920, published the first vernacular "student of the walker". In September of the same year, the first new poem West Bank was published.
192 1 year1kloc-0/year initiated the establishment of Tsinghua Literature Society with Liang Shiqiu and others. In March of the following year, he wrote "Research on Metric Poetry" and began to systematically study the theory of metrical new poetry.
1July, 922, went to Chicago Academy of Fine Arts to study. At the end of the year, the Winter Night Grass Review, co-authored with Liang Shiqiu, represented Wen Yiduo's early view of new poetry.
The first book of poetry, Red Candle, was published in 1923, which combined the theme of anti-imperialism and patriotism with the form of aestheticism.
1925 After returning to China in May, he successively served as a professor at the Fourth National Sun Yat-sen University (1928 was renamed Central University, and 1949 was renamed Nanjing University), Wuhan University (served as the first dean of the Art College and designed the school emblem), National Shandong University, Beijing Art College, Political University, Tsinghua University and Southwest Associated University.
The second book of poetry, Dead Water, was published in 1928, showing deep patriotic passion in decadence. Since then, he has devoted himself to the study of classical literature. Four ancient books, The Book of Changes, The Book of Songs, Zhuangzi and The Songs of the South, were sorted out and studied, and then compiled into Classical New Meaning, which Guo Moruo called "unprecedented, followed by no one".
1937 at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, he taught at the National Southwest United University. During the eight-year anti-Japanese war, he grew a beard and vowed never to shave it off until the victory of the anti-Japanese war, expressing his determination to fight the war to the end.
During his stay at National Southwest Associated University, especially after 1943, Wen Yiduo, under the influence and leadership of China's * * * production party, actively participated in the torrent of struggle against the dictatorship of the Kuomintang regime and for people's democracy. From 65438 to 0944, he participated in the Southwest Cultural Research Association and later joined the China Democratic League. Since then, he has actively participated in social and political activities as a professor of democracy and the leader of NLD Yunnan branch, and has become a mentor and friend that the vast number of revolutionary youth sincerely love and respect.
In the "December 1st" patriotic movement of students, Wen Yiduo always stood on the side of patriotic students, guiding and encouraging them to be brave and good at fighting, and made important contributions to the victory of the "December 1st" movement.
Wen Yiduo (1945) was a member of China Democratic League, governor of Yunnan Province and president of Kunming Democracy Weekly. 1946 On July 5th, he delivered the famous "Last Speech" at the conference in memory of Mr. Li Gongpu, and was killed by the Kuomintang spy that afternoon.
Macao
Do you know that Ma Gang is not my real name?
I've been away from you 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 your son by his birth name and call me "Macau"!
Mom! I want to come back, mom!
(Note: Wen Yiduo used "Ma Gang" in the original text, but CCTV changed "Ma Gang" to "Macau" in the lyrics for ease of understanding when it distributed the song "Song of Seven Sons" on 1999).
Hong Kong
I'm like Huang Bao who keeps vigil in front of the Phoenix Tower.
Mother, although my position is very small, my situation is very dangerous.
Hong Kong Island &; Now the terrible sea lion pounced on me in the New Territories Concession.
Spit my flesh and swallow my ointment;
Mom, I cried and howled, but I shouldn't have called you.
Mom, let me hide in your arms!
Mom! I want to come back, mom!
Taiwan Province Province, China
We are a string of pearls in the East China Sea.
Ryukyu is my younger brother, and I am from Taiwan Province Province.
I still have Zheng's heroic spirit in my chest.
Loyal blood dyed my heirloom red.
Mom, the hot summer is killing me,
Give me an order, and I can still hold on.
Mom! I want to come back, mom!
Weihai port
Let me protect the oldest sea in China again,
The original sacred mountain on the shore here is.
Mom, don't forget that I am an expert in preventing the sea.
I have a Liu Gongdao as my shield.
Come back, it's time.
The remains of saints are buried behind me!
Mom! I want to come back, mom!
Guangzhou bay
(now Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province)
Donghai (Island) and Pazhou (Island) are my double keys.
I am an iron lock at the back door of China. The leased map of Guangzhou Bay (now Zhanjiang City) occupied by France.
Why did you lend me to a thief?
Mom, you should never abandon me!
Mom, let me come back to you quickly.
I want to hold your ankle tightly.
Mom! I want to come back, mom!
Kowloon
My brother Hong Kong is complaining about his pain.
Mom, do you remember your little daughter Jiulong?
Ever since I married Zhenhai Devil,
I have never shed tears for a day!
Mother, I count the auspicious days of mothering every day.
I'm afraid that hope will become an empty dream.
Mom! I want to come back, mom!
Dalian Lushun
We are Lushun and Dalian, twin brothers. Lvshun Dalian lease land
How should our destinies be compared?
Two strong neighbors kicked me back and forth,
We are two mud balls at the foot of the mob.
Mom, it's time to go back. Bring us back quickly.
You have no idea how much our children miss you!
Mom! We'll be back, mom!