The background of Ode to the Yellow River was created during the Anti-Japanese War. At that time, the Chinese nation was facing a serious national crisis. As the birthplace of Chinese civilization, the Yellow River inspired strong national emotions.
"Ode to the Yellow River" is a lyric poem written by Guang Weiran and is widely sung. This work uses the poetry genre of "Ode", with a broad historical vision, full of patriotic emotions, and high-spirited writing style and melody, to enthusiastically eulogize the mother river and the national spirit it symbolizes, and has become a classic movement of the "Yellow River Cantata". Guang Weiran crossed the Yellow River twice between 1938 and 1939. The majestic waves of the mother river and the Yellow River boatmen fighting in the waves made his heart surge and his blood boil. After arriving in Yan'an, he came up with the idea of ????composing a long poem "Yellow River Ode", which later became the lyrics of "Yellow River Cantata". What he saw and felt while crossing the river, under the poet's romantic writing style, became the most vivid and rich material for "Ode to the Yellow River".
The Yellow River (theYellowRiver), the second largest river in China and the fifth largest river in the world, originates from the Yuegu Zonglie Basin at the northern foot of the Bayan Har Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and flows through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong nine provinces and regions, and flows into the Bohai Sea in Kenli District, Shandong Province. The total length of the main stream is 5,464 kilometers, with a water surface drop of 4,480 meters.