The March of the Volunteers is National anthem of the People's Republic of China, written by the composer and poet Tian Han and with his music composed by Nie Er. The rhythm type of this composition is a march. It was played for the first time in 1934 in Shanghai, proclaiming both its lyrics and its music as National anthem. In 2004 the Volunteer March was added to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China in its article 136.
the volunteer march was written by Tian Han during 1934 in the ROC. Popular stories suggest that it was written on tobacco paper before his arrest in Shanghai and imprisoned in Kuomintang in 1935. The song, with minor alterations, re-emerged as a patriotic theme in 1935 in the film Sons and Daughters. in times of storm, a story about an intellectual who lives the horrors of the Sino-Japanese war. It was one of the songs that were secretly promoted by the population during the Anti-Japanese Resistance. The re-release of the song was given on the Hong Kong album of the EMI house in the same year of 1935.
It was used as National anthem for the first time at the International Conference in Prague, former Czechoslovakia in February 1949. At the same time that Beijing was being taken over by Communist Chinese forces during the Chinese Civil War.
In June the committee formed by the Communist Party of China he decided to make it the official national anthem in a timely manner, once he had control. By the end of August the committee had received about 6.926 samples of "the march of the volunteers," which were suggested by the painter Xu Beihong and cheerfully supported by the council members. It was finally supported by Mao Zedong on September 27, 1949.
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Cultural Revolution and Recent History
The March of the Volunteers It was restored by the National People's Congress in 1978, but with different letters, in addition these letters were not well received at all since they caused a lot of confusion among citizens. During the 1981 Volleyball World Cup in China both lyrics were sung simultaneously by fans. 1 On December 4, 1982, the National People's Congress resolved and returned to the original version of 1935 as the Official Anthem. Significantly these letters did not mention anything about the Communist Party of China or about Mao Zedong.
The National People's Congress promulgated the song as official in 2004 in accordance with the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. The anthem it is mentioned before the flag.
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