Returning from Hunting is a military song written by Niu Baoyuan and composed by Wang Yongquan. It was created during 1960.
1960 Song won the first prize in the National Amateur Song Creation Competition.
Creation background
1In March, 959, Niu Baoyuan, a soldier with only primary school education, joined the army from Beizhen County, Liaoning Province and went with the team to a place called Huanglongwei in Dalian for real bullet shooting training. One evening, he saw some soldiers wearing big red flowers happily returning from the shooting range with guns and target cards. Then, I began to write down the poem "Sunset in the Western Hills, Hongxia flying, soldiers shooting at the target and returning to camp, red flowers reflecting rosy clouds on their chests, and crisp gunshots flying all over the sky". Later, this little poem was published in Selected Works of Military Literature.
At the beginning of 1960, Wang Yongquan, an amateur songwriter in the army, saw this poem in Selected Works of Military Literature and Art, and thought it was full of the flavor of army life, so he added four lyrics (that is, the lyrics of the second paragraph of the song), changed the original "ringing gunshots" into "cheerful singing" to make it become lyrics, and then composed it into the song "Shooting Back".
lyrics
Sunset red clouds fly to the west mountain.
The soldiers fired at the target and then returned to the camp.
Red flowers on the chest reflect rosy clouds.
Happy songs are flying all over the sky
Misao Milla Sao
La Sao mi Dao ru ai
Happy songs are flying all over the sky
Sunset red clouds fly to the west mountain.
The soldiers fired at the target and then returned to the camp.
Red flowers on the chest reflect rosy clouds.
Happy songs are flying all over the sky
Sunset red clouds fly to the west mountain.
The soldiers fired at the target and then returned to the camp.
Red flowers on the chest reflect rosy clouds.
Happy songs are flying all over the sky
Misao Milla Sao
La Sao mi Dao ru ai
Happy songs are flying all over the sky
Misao Milla Sao
La Sao mi Dao ru ai
Happy songs are flying all over the sky
1! 2! 3! 4!
Song appreciation
The song "Back to the Target" shows the style of a new generation of soldiers trying to kill the enemy. This song is a single paragraph structure consisting of six phrases. The first four phrases are a "connecting the preceding with the following" four phrase structure, which has an inherent echo relationship in the music material. If the first phrase is a topic sentence, then the second phrase is the repetition of the topic sentence, the third phrase is comparison, and the fourth phrase is cohesion. The paragraphs composed of these four phrases have shaped the energetic and optimistic mental state of the officers and men at the grass-roots level. The last two phrases are a supplement. The fifth phrase consists of two clauses, with the name of the score ("m i-so -la-m i-so, la-so -m i-d o -re") as the lyrics (interlinear words), which further strengthens the optimism of the warriors when they come back from the goal. As the ending sentence of the whole song, the sixth phrase is concise and powerful, which makes the song end in a higher range. This suffix is linked with the final slogan "one, two, three, four", which shows the style of "unity, tension, seriousness and liveliness" to the fullest.