The background of volunteers' creation-March

The creative background of March of Volunteers;

193 1 After the September 18th Incident, the bonfire of national self-defense was ignited in the northeast. Anti-Japanese volunteers have sprung up all over the northeast. Less than 1 year, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army has reached 300,000. Since February, some anti-Japanese armed forces in the northeast have been reorganized into anti-Japanese Coalition forces to continue the anti-Japanese struggle in various regions. During the arduous period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, a song came from a prison in Shanghai: This is the lyrics written by writer Tian Han for the film "Children in the Storm" at that time. Nie Er composed the music, and it was March of the Volunteers.

1934 Zhu qinglan sponsored Shanghai Dentsu Film Company to shoot "Children of the Storm", written by Tian Han. However, as soon as Tian Han handed over the synopsis of the story and the lyrics of a theme song, he was arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang government on February 1935. Later, the film was adapted into print by China's first generation film director Xia Yan. After Tian Han was arrested, musician Nie Er found Xia Yan and undertook the task of writing the theme song for The Son of the Storm.

1935 April 18, Nie Er arrived in Tokyo, Japan, and revised the first draft of the theme song composition of "Children of the Storm". After finalizing the score, he sent it back to China.

According to the staff of Shanghai National Anthem Exhibition Hall, after the early filming of the film "Son of the Storm" was completed, the lyrics of Tian Han's theme song did not determine the title of the film, while the lyrics and music name sent back by Nie Er from Japan only wrote three words "March". How did the theme song lyrics and the name "March" in "Children of the Storm" become one name? General Zhu Qinglan, as an investor in the film "The Son of the Storm", added the word "Volunteer Army" before the word "March", and the title of the theme song of "The Son of the Storm" became March of the Volunteers. Finally, March of the Volunteers was made into a record by Shanghai EMI Records Company for public release.

March of the Volunteers, written by Tian Han and composed by Nie Er, was born in 1935, when the Chinese nation was at a critical juncture. This song, which has been sung in China for nearly 70 years, is like a horn of battle, inspiring Chinese sons and daughters to resist Japanese imperialist aggression, overthrow Chiang Kai-shek, liberate all China and build socialism.

The September 18th Incident in 193 1 started the Japanese imperialist war of aggression against China, and the roar of "not being the conquered" aroused the patriotic enthusiasm of the people all over the country. 1932 and 1933 joined Tian Han and Nie Er of China * * * production party and devoted themselves to the anti-Japanese national salvation movement led by China * * * production party.

1in the spring of 934, Tian Han decided to write a screenplay with the theme of resisting Japan and saving the nation. No sooner had he written an outline of a story and the lyrics of a theme song than he was arrested and imprisoned by Kuomintang reactionaries. Another * * * party member and playwright Xia Yan took over and wrote the story into a screenplay. Nie Er volunteered to compose music for March of the Volunteers, the theme song written by Tian Han. When he read the lyrics "Get up! People who don't want to be slaves build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood! When the Chinese nation reached the most dangerous time, everyone was forced to make a final roar. Get up! Get up! Get up! We are United and braved the enemy's gunfire! Braving the enemy's gunfire! Forward! Forward! Enter! " He seemed to hear his mother's moan, the voice of the nation, the call of the motherland and the roar of the soldiers. Patriotic passion surged in his chest, a magnificent and passionate melody sounded from his heart, and he quickly completed the first draft of the score. Later, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Kuomintang government, the final version of the music was completed in the drift from place to place. This gave birth to a revolutionary battle song that showed the strong character of the Chinese nation, the dignity of the motherland and the heroic spirit of uniting against the enemy. This is the last work of Nie Er's short life.

After March of the Volunteers was born, it was like putting wings on it and singing in the land of the motherland. Accompanied by the "December 9th Movement", the huge waves of the national salvation movement, the bonfire in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the smoke of the liberation war spread all over the country, inside and outside the Great Wall. This revolutionary song is even famous overseas and spread all over the world.