Zheng Lucheng
Zheng Lucheng
Zheng Lucheng (August 13, 1914 to December 7, 1976), formerly known as Zheng Fuen, was born in the Koreas (now South Korea) of the Koreas. Zheng Lucheng is another outstanding composer after Nie Er and Xian Xinghai in modern Chinese history, and a pioneer of Chinese proletarian revolutionary music. He is known as the "father of military songs".
In 1933, Zheng Lucheng came to Nanjing, the capital of China, to join the Korean Anti Japanese revolutionary organization "yilie group", and began to study music while carrying out the revolution. In 1939, Zheng Lucheng created "Ode to Yan'an" to become famous, and formally joined the Communist Party of China in 1939. During the same period, his "March of the Eighth Route Army" was renamed "military song of the Chinese people's Liberation Army". In 1950, Zheng became a citizen of the people's Republic of China and settled in Beijing. On December 7, 1976, Zheng Lu died of a disease.
In 2009, Zheng Lucheng was rated as "100 heroes and models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of new China" by 11 departments including the Central Propaganda Department and the central organization department.
Life of the characters
Childhood
Zheng Lucheng, formerly known as Zheng Fuen, was born on August 13, 1914 in Kwangju, South Korea. As a child, Zheng Lucheng suffered from stuttering and began to learn violin after he was found to have musical talent. In 1919, the "three one movement" against Japanese colonial rule broke out in Guangzhou. Under the influence of his father and brother's patriotism, Zheng Lucheng had a strong anti Japanese feeling.
Revolutionary years
In 1933, Zheng Lucheng's three brothers gave their lives for the revolutionary cause of Korea and China. At the age of 19, Zheng Lucheng came to China with a group of progressive Korean youths to study in Nanjing "Korean revolutionary cadre school" run by Korean Anti Japanese groups in China, and participated in Anti Japanese organizations such as the Korean revolutionary organization "yilie group" and "Korean national liberation League".
In 1936, introduced by Luo Qing, Zheng Lucheng joined the May literature and art society, an anti Japanese and national salvation organization, and served as a director. At the same time, he wrote his first work song of May.
After the July 7th incident in 1937, Zheng Lucheng got to know Xian Xinghai and cooperated with him for a long time, producing film songs and recording. In October of the same year, Zheng Lucheng went to Yan'an with great enthusiasm and successively entered the Music Department of Shanbei public school and Lu Xun art college.
In 1938, Zheng Lucheng was appointed music director of the Chinese people's Anti Japanese military and Political University and vocal music teacher of Lu Xun art college. Later, Zheng Lucheng wrote a large number of revolutionary songs: Ode to Yan'an, ballad of Yan Shui, ballad of defending Wuhan, ballad of production, message to a Lang, March of October Revolution, March of the Eighth Route Army and so on.
In January 1939, Zheng Lucheng formally joined the Communist Party of China.
In the spring of 1942, Zheng Lucheng and Ding Xuesong were married under the auspices of Zhou Yang.
In August 1942, Zheng Lucheng was sent to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountains as the chief educator of the North China Korean revolutionary military and political school.
After Zheng Lucheng and his wife returned to Korea in 1945, he successively served as director of Propaganda Department of Huanghai Road Committee of the Korean labor party, director of Korean people's Army Club, head of Korean people's army Concerto, director of composition department of Korean National Conservatory of music, etc., and composed "Ode to 8.15", "March of Korean people's army", "March of Korean liberation" and "Ode to new China" for Korean army and people, There are more than ten works such as "Tumen River" and "fisherman in the East China Sea".
At the beginning of 1949, Zheng Lucheng and his wife were transferred to the business delegation of the Northeast China Administrative Committee in Pyongyang as representatives, and the party's relationship also changed from the Korean labor party to the Communist Party of China. During the same period, Zheng Lucheng was transferred from the people's army and assigned to the Korean National Conservatory of music as Minister of music.
New China period
In 1950, the Korean War broke out. With the approval of Premier Zhou Enlai, Zheng Lucheng and his wife returned to China and became Chinese nationality. Later, he was assigned to Beijing People's Art Theater.
In December 1950, as a member of the creative group of the Chinese people's Volunteer Army, Zheng Lucheng went to Korea with Liu Baiyu, Ouyang shanzun, Ling Zifeng and Li Ying. He cooperated with Liu Baiyu to write "singing Baiyun Mountain", he cooperated with Wei Wei to compose "dear people in the army" with strong Korean flavor, and cooperated with Ouyang shanzun to compose "March of the Chinese people's Volunteer Army" and "ten praises of the volunteer army".
In 1956, Zheng Lucheng was transferred to the central Orchestra (now China Symphony Orchestra) studio to compose music. He went deep into factories, rural areas and border defense, and traveled all over China, looking for new creative materials everywhere. He composed a large number of music works for workers, peasants and soldiers.
On December 7, 1976, Zheng Lucheng died of cerebral hemorrhage in Beijing and was buried in Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.
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Representative works
In June 2019, the PLA military song was selected as "100 excellent songs celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China" by the propaganda department.
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Anecdotes and allusions
The mystery of birth year
Zheng changed his age to a 4-year-old to take part in the Anti Japanese activities. Therefore, in some relevant records, Zheng Lucheng's birthday was written as 1918. But after detailed textual research by relatives and friends in Korea, including the registered residence data and other documents, it was confirmed that his accurate year of birth was 1914.
Pursuit of beauty
In 1937, Zheng Lucheng met Ding Xuesong in Yan'an, and they secretly liked each other. One day, Ding went back to his cave and found that the cave had been cleaned and a bunch of dried flowers had been put on the table. After a few days, I felt very strange. Until one day, I found that the room had been cleaned and two popular novels, Anna Karenina and Camellia girl, were placed beside the flowers. Ding Xuesong was both surprised and happy. He picked up the book and saw a note in it: "give it to the ghost female officer, whose name is Zheng Lucheng.". Ding Xuesong's heart is bright and excited at the moment, so they make love. It took them two years to overcome the tortuous political resistance, and finally they were successfully united.
Father's love is boundless
In April 1943, Ding Xuesong, who was pregnant, fell on a snowy hillside and gave birth prematurely. But she had no milk to feed her daughter, so she had to sell Zheng Lucheng's beloved violin in exchange for a ewe who had just given birth to a lamb. In memory of the lost violin, Ding Xuesong named his daughter Xiaoti.
Because Ding Xuesong wanted to go to the countryside to work, Zheng Lucheng took on the responsibility of "nanny" without hesitation when she considered giving her children to others to raise temporarily. He first got two ewes and milked them to feed his daughter on weekdays. He was even more meticulous when he encountered washing and washing, for fear of wronging his daughter. He looked like a good father full of "maternal love".
Soon after, her daughter Xiaoti suffered from whooping cough and dysentery. She had a high fever. People said that the child could not live. Zheng Lucheng put the antipyretic medicine he brought back from the former side into the needle tube and injected it into his daughter. It was this injection after injection that finally brought her fever back.
Character evaluation
In 2005, Zhu Yingjie, Chinese cultural counsellor in South Korea and director of the Chinese cultural center in South Korea, said: "Zheng Lucheng was not only a musician who brought hope to Asia during the Anti Japanese War, but also a representative musician who advocated peace with music."
In 2007, Guan Xia, head of the China Symphony Orchestra, said: "Zheng Lucheng is the composer of our orchestra. He composed military songs of China and North Korea, reflecting the common aspiration of the people of China, North Korea and South Korea. He was commemorated by the people of the three countries, which is unparalleled in the world."
In 2009, Wang Zhen, former vice president of China, wrote in the preface of composer Zheng Lucheng: "he is another outstanding composer after Nie Er and Xian Xinghai, and one of the pioneers of Chinese proletarian revolutionary music. “
In 2009, Zheng Lucheng was rated as "100 heroes and models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of new China" by 11 departments including the Central Propaganda Department and the central organization department.
Commemoration of later generations
Zheng Lucheng Music Festival
On November 11, 2005, the first Guangzhou Zheng Lucheng International Music Festival was held in Guangzhou, South Korea, to commemorate the famous Chinese composer Zheng Lucheng.
Zheng Lucheng Memorial
In April 2009, the people's musician Zheng Lucheng memorial hall was established at 233 Youyi Road, Daoli District, Harbin City, showing the people's musician Zheng Lucheng's 62 years of revolutionary music life.
With a total area of 1350 square meters, the exhibition hall is divided into eight exhibition halls: opening, turbulent years, Yan'an years, friendship tour, love for black soil, time singer, rooted in the motherland and ending. More than 500 physical exhibits and nearly 1000 precious photos are collected and displayed.
Inscription of Zheng Lucheng
In 2013, Qiao Yu, a famous Chinese poet, wrote in the "inscription on Zheng Lucheng": At the beginning of the Anti Japanese War, Lu Cheng wrote "Ode to Yan'an" soon after he arrived in Yan'an. This song is like a bird flying from Yan'an to the liberated areas, all over China and all over the world. At the historical juncture of the survival of the Chinese nation, there is a generation in our team who is singing this song and rushing to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution, with enthusiasm and without hesitation. "
Commemorative film
In 1989, Korean 28 art film studio produced "musician Zheng Lucheng", which is a typical film based on the image of Comrade Zheng Lucheng. Comrade Kim Jong Il personally deployed the best writer of the Korean people's army and won the "people's Award"
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