"My Motherland" is a patriotic song written by Qiao Yu, composed by Liu Chi, and sung by Guo Lanying. It is the theme song of the movie "Shangganling".

Qiao Yu, Liu Chi, and Guo Lanying won the first Golden Disc Award for this song.

Creative background

Lyric writing process

After Changchun Film Studio finished filming "Shangganling", director Sha Meng approached Qiao Yu Asked to write lyrics for the theme song, Qiao Yu got on the train from Nanchang to Shanghai that night after receiving the invitation. Yuan Wenshu, the director of Shanghai Film Studio, arranged the train to Changchun. After Sha Meng and Qiao Yu met, Sha Meng explained the situation to Qiao Yu: The filming of "Shangganling" has been completed and the sample film has been cut out. Only a few minutes of scenes to arrange the interlude were left to be re-shot after the song came out. The daily expenses of the entire crew are huge. Therefore, Sha Meng asked Qiao Yu to compose quickly and asked the song to last forever. [2] When Qiao Yu was writing lyrics, he wanted to take a different writing path than before, but he couldn't think of it. Sha Meng came to his room almost every day to urge the manuscript, so Qiao Yu had no choice. It wasn't until he remembered the scene when he saw the Yangtze River in Jiangxi that he wrote the lyrics. After holding the manuscript for half an hour, Sha Meng asked why the first sentence was not "Wanli Yangtze River" or "Yangtze River Ten Thousand Miles". Qiao Yu thought that writing this way might create psychological distance and loss of intimacy for those who are not on the Yangtze River. In the end, Sha Meng Accepted Qiao Yu's idea.

The composition process

In 1956, Sha Meng asked Liu Chi to compose the music for "My Motherland". In order to make people like this song, Liu Chi investigated and studied the songs that people liked to sing from 1949 to 1955, selected ten songs and listened to them repeatedly, and finally found the song from the first sentence of one of them, "Lugou Questions and Answers" The first half sentence of "My Motherland". When Liu Chi was creating in the small white building of Changchun Film Studio, in order to avoid outside interference, he posted a note on the door saying "Liu Chi is dead".

Selecting singers

In order to find singers suitable for singing "My Motherland", Changying invited a group of singers from mainland China who are good at singing folk songs to audition, but the results were not satisfactory. . Later, Qiao Yu asked Guo Lanying to sing. After Guo Lanying auditioned, Changying selected her as the singer of the song. The recording of the song was carried out at the Central People's Broadcasting Station. The radio station broadcast the song to the whole of China the next day after the recording was completed. < /p>

This is the beautiful motherland and the place where I grew up

There are beautiful scenery everywhere in this vast land

The girl is like a flower and the boy is How broad-minded I am

In order to open up a new world, I woke up the sleeping mountains and changed the shape of the river

This is the heroic motherland and the place where I grew up

In There is the power of youth everywhere in this ancient land

Good mountains, good water, good places, all roads are spacious

When friends come, there is good wine, if the jackals come to welcome them There is a shotgun

This is the strong motherland and the place where I grew up

In this warm land there is sunshine of peace everywhere

Song Appreciation< /p>

"My Motherland" profoundly expresses strong patriotism and sings out the infinite love and heroic spirit of the volunteer soldiers for their motherland and hometown. The lyrics are sincere, simple, cordial and vivid. The first half of the melody is euphemistic and pleasant, and the three verses are three beautiful pictures, which are fascinating. [7] Although the song is different from the tough and powerful style of many red songs, the first half of the tune is gentle and pleasant, and the second half of the chorus and mixed chorus are in sharp contrast with the previous ones, as if a mountain torrent is gushing down thousands of miles, expressing the soldiers' feelings to their heart's content. **, singing out the infinite love and heroic spirit of the volunteer soldiers for their motherland and hometown.

"My Motherland" is an excellent lyrical song, which deeply expresses strong patriotism. The first part of the song is in the form of a lyrical soprano, a wave of homesickness. , filled with sweet singing, makes people seem to see the beautiful scenery of the motherland's rivers with drifting sails and fields with fragrant rice waves.

The latter part uses a mixed chorus form, which is in sharp contrast with the previous part, and sings the theme of "This is the beautiful motherland", which is surging and majestic.