This year marks the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Our "Centennial Song" series of reports, through songs that span history, look back at the glorious course of our party and our country in the past century. Today we want to focus on the song "Ninety-Nine Sunny Days" in the classic film "The Story of Liubao" in the 1950s.
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The movie "The Story of LiuBao", released in 1957, tells the story of Li Jin, the deputy squad leader of a company of the New Fourth Army, and the second sister of the young girl who developed a pure love, and after the help and education of the instructors, they temporarily shelved their children's love and devoted themselves to the revolutionary struggle. "Nine Nine Sunny Days" is a song that appears repeatedly in the film.
Meng Weidong, composer and former head of the China Railway Cultural and Labor Troupe: This movie we know is rare in the 50s, writing about the relationship between the army and the love of the people. In Chinese folk songs, in the national songs, this duet of male and female voices, there is no doubt that this "Nine Nine Sunny Days" is the best product.
Produced by the Bayi Film Studio of the people's liberation army of the Chinese, the novelty of the film is that it focuses on the heroic nature of young people and children without losing their revolutionary soldiers, and integrates warm love scenes into the war narrative.
Meng Weidong, composer and former head of the China Railway Cultural and Labor Troupe: The singer of this song turned out to be a male voice in our unit (The China Railway Cultural and Labor Troupe) was Pan Wenlin, a tenor, who was our vocal teacher. The female voice is Hu Yansheng, the main actor of our unit, playing Sister Jiang, Han Ying in "Honghu Red Guard", and people at that time sang particularly plainly.
Along with the beautiful pictures of windmills, willows, Banqiao, light boats and other beautiful pictures in the water towns of northern Jiangsu in the film, the lyrics in "Nine-Nine Sunny Days" make extensive use of folk materials and folk songs such as Fu Bixing, Q&A and repetition, although the song range is not large, it is full of strong local flavors and folk song interest.
Singer Lu Jihong: In fact, you seem to be on the surface, reading the literal is writing about the scenery, in fact, you are writing about the cardamom years of the two people, "broad beans and flowers are fragrant, wheat seedlings are fresh", I think it is particularly beautiful to sing. At that time, people wrote songs, including singing, to express this emotion, which can be said to be very simple.
It is like a small song hummed when working and leisure, but also like the young lover's gentle and affectionate duet, especially the lyrics are sincere and simple, and there is a concept of the overall situation, so that this love song related to the life of the army is still full of lively vitality.
Singer Lu Jihong: On the surface, this song is a young soldier's thoughts about his hometown sweetheart, a love song, but in fact, after I sang it, I felt that it was a very inspirational song. Because the lyrics say, "Wait until your chest with safflower and then return", the male is also, "Wait for my chest with safflower and then return", it is a sublimation, do a career in the front line, make a career, wear a big red flower and come back, dedicated to the people of your hometown, dedicated to your beloved girl, maybe our love will be complete, I think it is very inspiring.
(CCTV reporter Pei Fei, Shao Shukuan, Wei Bangjun)
(Edited by Yin Huixian)