Shallow Ory 《Big Chorus Of Yellow River》 Of History Meaning And Time Spirit

The Yellow River Chorus which was written by Guang Weiran and melodized by Xian Xinhai is a musical epopee that reflects how the Chinese people fought against the Japanese aggressors and save the nation. It used to inspire the Chinese youth to fight against the aggression with perseverance, which makes it actually to be a heroic epopee of the Chinese nation. It is an enduring work of art that summed up how the Chinese people fought against the Japanese aggression to China during the counter-Japanese war times, so it is also a psalm that propagated the great spirits of the Chinese people.The background creating the song is that the Japanese imperialist was brutally invading our country, China relapsing into a great national calamity. At the moment of jeopardy of losing our country, the Chinese people roused to fight back. The Kuomintang Party and the Communist Party of China held all the nationalities and all the parties together to collaborate to resist the Japanese invasion, heavily attacking the invaders. The Huanghe River Chorus was then created, in the cruelest days of the war.The writer of the song words was a patriotic poet who wrote "new style" poems which syncretize the Chinese and western styles. His poems' artistic conception was majestic, profound and touching the soul of their readers. He insisted that the elocnte and music should be paid same attention, which was an innovation. His song words had a strong feeling of sensibility, having a great affection. He knew music well, thus the song sentences were often ended with vowels which were easy for people to open mouth wide and produce great resonance. His poems were actually like a touching breadth of pictures.Many works of Xian Xinghai, a great musician of China, were revolutionary music that reflected the scenes of anti-Japanese-imperialists and saving the nation. He claimed that the musicians should create a new style to reflect new contents. The Yellow River Chorus was one of the apotheosis. During the special times of anti-Japanese, musicians should take use of songs to reflect the people's voice, to show the national tribulation and struggling spirits and to indicate people's pursuit at happy life and the confidence of gaining the final victory. He made innovation and exertion on the musical art. He divided the Yellow River Chorus into eight parts with different speed, different style, different tone and multi-layer comparison to collectively manifest the people's original emotion of, pleasure, anger, grief and happiness. The whole work was just like the Yellow River roaring, flushing tidal waves that could not be prevented, with intense feeling of times. In the creation, he was good at combing the tones together with fluctuant rhythm, forming his own style. This work was full of the people's unbending spirit of anti-imperialists and revolutionary optimism, pointing out the direction to the people, and indicating the luciferous foreground of victory.The historical significance of the work was profound, because it aroused the people, excited the fight and enhanced the national glory among all kinds of nationalities. Carrying forward the national spirit of never being defeated was the originality of the musician. The Yellow River Chorus was composed in the period of anti-Japanese war, but from the view of history, it has intense feeling of times. In the course of anit-Japanese war, it aroused the national people to agglomerate and inspired us the over-national patriotism; but today, it becomes the driving power to agglomerate all the Chinese people all over the world. It excites the great union of all the nationalities and strengthens our national self-confidence.The publish of the Yellow River Chorus absolutely inspired the Chinese people's patriotism, manifested the sufferings and struggling of the Chinese nation, boosted the solidarity of all the nation and made China spurt great agglomerate power. It has wide national and international influence.The Yellow River Chorus is just like a sharp sword, all the invaders becoming terror-stricken at hearing it; it is a spirit, making the Chinese people constantly strive to become stronger and never be defeated; it is a soul, exciting the Chinese people all over the world to hold together; it is a ligament, combining all the people loving peace all over the world with the common aspirations, dreams and ideals. The connotation of this great work that reflects the spirits and souls of the Chinese people has already surpassed the ambit of the art and play an inestimable role in all kinds of fields.