Yang Fei, male, 1927, from Nankang, Jiangxi. He was influenced by China's classical poems and traditional music since he was a child, and laid a deep cultural foundation. /kloc-enlisted in 0/949, and served as instrumental music leader and composer in the propaganda team of the military and political university of the Fourth Corps of the Second Field Army. He regards Yunnan as his second hometown, and besides having a beautiful place, he has also composed dozens of excellent songs such as "Carrying a bucket up the mountain" and "Frontier Pastoral". On June 5th, 2007, 165438+ He won the 10th Wangzhong Culture Award, the most popular folk culture award in Yunnan Province. Ruili Zhenqing
1954, 27-year-old Yang Fei went to Ruili to collect folk songs and experience life. When I came to a banyan tree at the top of Mengxiu Mountain in Mengxiu Township, Ruili City, Yang Fei looked at it from a distance. Ruili dam in the sun is green and boundless, and the Ruili river slowly flows through the dam. This situation inspired Yang Fei's music creation. A beautiful and euphemistic song "There is a Beautiful Place" was born and sung all over the country, especially after it became the theme song of the movie "Menglongsha".
For more than half a century, this song has been selected as one of the national 100 outstanding patriotic songs since the May 4th Movement, and has also been designated as a city song by Ruili. Yang Fei, a songwriter, has also forged an indissoluble bond with Ruili City.
1996, Ruili 10 more than 0 CPPCC members jointly proposed that there is a beautiful place as the song of Ruili city. 1997 June 65438+ 10, the 23rd session of the 12 National People's Congress of Ruili made a decision, and the revised "There is a Beautiful Place" was designated as Ruili City Song, and the city songs were registered with Yunnan Copyright Bureau. The decision was also awarded to the honorary citizen of Ruili City, Yang Fei.
Since then, "There is a beautiful place" has been widely sung in Ruili by all walks of life, whether it is TV programs, primary and secondary schools, offices, hotels and restaurants during festivals ... almost where there is music, there is a beautiful melody of "There is a beautiful place". Ruili City has also held many city song singing competitions, which made the city songs sing louder and louder and spread farther and farther. Only in the city song contest held on February 29th, 2006, the number of participating teams reached 18, and more than 2,000 people performed on the stage, which was unprecedented in the history of Dehong.
In order to express the high respect and heartfelt thanks of Ruili people to Yang Fei, and to let future generations see that this famous song will go down in history forever, and add luster to Ruili's cultural treasure house, Ruili City has set up a monument to create "There is a Beautiful Place" under the big banyan tree in Mengxiu Township. Yang Fei was invited to attend the unveiling ceremony on June 2, 2003.
Soul returning to Yunnan
Yang Fei died in Kunming on1October 28th1kloc-0/5: 25 in 2007, at the age of 80. 165438+1October 5th, he was just awarded the 10th Wangzhong Culture Award, the most popular folk culture award in Yunnan Province. The award speech praised Yang Fei as an outstanding singer in the south of colorful clouds, and "There is a Beautiful Place" influenced three generations. Yang Fei said before his death that he must write a song for Kun in his lifetime, so the song "Beautiful Spring City My Home" became his last work before his death.
Relevant leaders and masses in Ruili City, Dehong Prefecture; Wan Li, Mao,, and other people in Yunnan literary and art circles; In addition to Yang Fei's relatives, more than 300 people from other social circles attended the memorial service in the early hours of the morning. Everyone is dressed in plain clothes and has a dignified expression. At the farewell ceremony of the body, "There is a Beautiful Place" was played, and Feiyang went to that "beautiful place" with everyone's nostalgia. According to Yang Fei's last wish, half of his ashes will be sent to Ruili, where There is a Beautiful Place was created, and the other half will be buried in Kunming with his ex-wife. In order to commemorate Yang Fei, Dehong Prefecture also set up a commemorative activity group. The relevant person in charge told the reporter that they planned to organize a "Winter Soul" concert in memory of Mr. Yang Fei, and "Celebrating Mr. Yang Fei and Listening to" There is a Beautiful Place "Week" and other activities. When it comes to Yang Fei's music creation, some people commented: "His works are both ideological and artistic. From his works, we can see the beautiful scenery of Yunnan and the fish and water situation of the soldiers and civilians fighting side by side; You can hear the happy voices of people of all ethnic groups; You can smell the rich earthy fragrance of the frontier; You can feel the passion of people fighting to defend and build a new life. " Yang Fei didn't overestimate these compliments. His creation is not fiction, nor is it behind closed doors in the office. He measured the land of Yunnan with his feet and personally came to the people of all ethnic groups to feel their joys and sorrows and sing with them. Many works were written by him beside fire pits and bamboo buildings. These songs are fresh, beautiful, simple, sincere and full of local flavor. He once said that his songs are wild flowers that bloom on the cliffs of deep mountains.
Yunnan musician Yang Fei said.
Wan Li (Yunnan composer): Lao Yang is a leading figure in Yunnan music creation, which has played a very good guiding role for us. In my opinion, Lao Yang's mind is very beautiful, so he can write many interesting songs. His songs are "one in a hundred" in terms of influence and Excellence.
Lu Yunsheng (national first-class poet): Lao Yang's works have great vitality. He is a master of melody and his songs are very touching. He was one of the first musicians to introduce Yunnan's songs to the world. He is sincere and generous and is our role model.