Creation background
On March 1943 and 10, the book The Destiny of China written by Chiang Kai-shek was published, in which the slogan "Without the Kuomintang, there would be no China" was put forward. On August 25th of the same year, China's * * * production party published an editorial entitled "Without the * * * production party, there would be no China" in Liberation Daily, which criticized the book and said at the end: "Today's China, without China's * * * production party, there would be no China". 19-year-old China * * * party member Cao wrote the song "Without the * * * Production Party, there would be no China".
. Later, Mao Zedong suggested adding the word "new", arguing that "when there was no production party in China, China still existed".
"Without the Party, there would be no new China" was born in Shang Tang Village, Xiayunling Township, Fangshan District, Beijing. Today, there is a memorial hall "Without the Party, there would be no new China".
1September, 943, 19-year-old Cao, as a member of the mass drama club and three other people, formed a small team, set out from the headquarters of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region, and crossed mountains and rivers to reach Xiayunling Village in the (mountain) New District and Zhuoshui (county) in Pingxi.
Cao is from Pingshan County, Hebei Province. 1938 After enlisting, he studied composition and conducting in the Music Department of the College of Literature and Art of North China United University, and worked in the mass drama club in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region for a long time.
At that time, Shang Tang Village, Fanglaizhuo United County, Pingxi Anti-Japanese Base Area, successively carried out democratic construction and reduced rent and interest rates. Cao, who is only 19 years old, was infected by the fiery anti-Japanese war life here. The lyrics of "democracy has many benefits" and "improving people's lives" are a portrayal of life at that time.
One of the details that people in the village have talked about so far is that in the early morning when Cao became a singer, he pushed open the door, tired and excited, and stopped eight young league members who were playing in the school open space and asked them to give lectures that night.
83-year-old Li Wandai 14 years old. Sixty-eight years later, he still remembers, "We were playing when the door opened and Cao Huo Xing called us in and said he would teach us to sing. It didn't take long to learn. He sang and we hummed along. It only took once or twice. "
That morning was the first time that the song "Without the Party, there would be no (new) China" was sung on the land of China.
There are different opinions on how to define the earliest song title "Without the Party, there would be no China" as "Without the Party, there would be no new China". According to Pang Xianzhi, director of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Literature Research Office, he introduced the word "new" to his secretary-1950. When he heard his daughter Li Ne sing this song, he immediately corrected it: "When there was no * * * production party, China already had it, and it should be changed to" no * * * production party ". 200 1 in early June, Li Ne affirmed this statement.
"Without the * * * production party, there would be no new China" is in tune with the beat of the overlord whip, and the vocabulary is straightforward. When Cao wrote this song on 1943, there was a phrase in the lyrics "Persist in the War of Resistance for more than six years". When everyone sang this song on 1944, the masses automatically changed it to "persisting in the war of resistance for more than seven years" and finally solidified in the victory of the war of resistance-"he persisted in the war of resistance for more than eight years".
The spread of "Without the Party, there would be no (new) China" has been accompanied by the March of the people's army and the horn of national liberation. China's * * * production party led the people of China to win War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and China, which was poor and weak, became rich and strong.