Ten Famous Songs of Guangdong Music - Chasing the Moon with Colored Clouds

Highly characterized by local culture and using traditional Chinese instruments, it renders the sounds of history over and over again, and passes down the stories of the past from generation to generation. Being in the midst of Cantonese music is like going back to that era, and the scene instantly switches into the mold of the last century. So in this issue of Ethnic Culture, we will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the top ten famous songs of Cantonese music, "Chasing the Moon with Colored Clouds".

The piece "Chasing the Moon with Colored Clouds" first came from a collection of scores of Cantonese music in the Qing Dynasty, and was rearranged by the composers Ren Guang and Nie Er in 1935, making it an excellent piece of national orchestral music. The title of the piece contains the beautiful symbolism of an immortal running to the moon palace on a colorful cloud, and the melody is full of the leisure and elegance of Cantonese music, as if the crystal clear beauty of the moon palace is slowly lifting its veil with the gently swaying music.

Ren Guang (1900-1941), a Chinese composer who used to be known by his pen name Qianfa, was born in 1900 in Shengzhou City (Chengguan Town), Zhejiang Province. Since childhood, he loved music and watching Shaoxing Daban and Lotus Flower Pendulum. When he entered Sheng County Middle School, he had already learned to play erhu, brass horn and organ, and was known as a "little musician". After graduating from high school, he entered Shanghai Aurora University.

In 1919, he went to France to study and work as a student, and enrolled in the music department of the University of Lyon to study music theory and composition. After graduating from the university, he went to Vietnam to work as the manager of the Yafo piano shop in Hanoi, and in 1927, he was recruited to be the director of the music department of the Baidai Records Company, which was founded by a French businessman in Shanghai. In 1927, he was hired as the director of the music department of Baidai Records, a company founded by a French businessman, and soon came into contact with the "South China Society", a progressive literary group, and in 1933, under the leadership of Tian Han, he organized a left-wing music organization in Shanghai, the "Friends of the Soviet Union" music group and the "Friends of the Soviet Union" music group, together with An E, Nie Er, Zhang Shu, and Lv Ji. Under the leadership of Tian Han, he and An E, Nie Er, Zhang Shu, Lv Ji and others organized a left-wing music group in Shanghai, the "Friends of the Soviet Union Society" and the "China Emerging Music Research Society", to compose revolutionary songs and lyric songs, and to open up the left-wing film music position.

His works such as "Fisherman's Song", "March of the Earth", "The King's Bachelor", "New Lotus Flower Tree", and especially "Fighting Back to the Old Country", composed in 1936, reflected the true feelings of the poor people and expressed the heroic and resolute character of the revolutionary masses, and the style of his compositions was further populist and popularized.

Nie Er (February 14, 1912-July 17, 1935), a native of Yuxi, Yunnan Province, born in Kunming, formerly known as Nie Shouxin, Ziyi (also known as Ziyi), was a Chinese musician and the composer of the Chinese People's Republic's national anthem, "The March of the Volunteers," and was known by his pen names, such as Black Angel, Noise Sen, Rumple Yuk and Wang Daping.

Born in February 1912 in Kunming, Yunnan Province, Nie Er was admitted to the First Normal School of Yunnan Province in 1927, and joined the Chinese ****anist Youth League in 1928.In 1930, he went to Shanghai and joined the Anti-Imperialist League.At the beginning of 1933, Nie Er was introduced to the Party by Tian Han.On July 17th, 1935, when Nie Er was swimming in Swannuma Beach in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, he unfortunately drowned. He was 23 years old when he drowned.

Nie Er composed dozens of revolutionary songs, and his works have influenced Chinese music for decades. His musical creations have a distinctive sense of the times, serious ideology, high national spirit and outstanding artistic creativity, pointing out the direction for the development of Chinese proletarian revolutionary music, and setting an example for Chinese musical creations.