Hong Qiyuan Hong Qiyuan is a Chinese American, a well-known worship leader and creator in the Christian world. He is a famous worship leader and creator in China Christian circles. He is one of the founders of Stream Of Praise Music Department. During his early service in Stream Of Praise, his first album "Let Praise Fly" became a household name in China Church, and many of his worship poems were also well known to us. Hong Qiyuan's first album "Let Praise Fly" has become an indicator of the Chinese worship music scene, and its sales volume has also maintained an unparalleled record in the current Chinese music scene. Hong Qiyuan is not only a famous worship leader in China's worship music, but also his works are widely used by China churches. The original movement of China's poems has also formed a trend under the advocacy and encouragement of Hong Qiyuan, which has given China's worship music a new look. In 2000, Hong Qiyuan formed "Prince Music" and became the soul of this department. In addition to music production, arrangement and singing, he also arranged all the staff as a whole. His work "Seize the City for the Lord" was not only nominated for the Golden Melody Award, but also widely sung in various churches in China, which had a great influence on the worship and praise movement in China. Since the establishment of Prince Music in 2000, nearly a thousand professional Christian musicians from all over the world have joined together to form a huge network. Musicians from different regions and races can participate in the service of Christian holy music in China through professional recording, training and live gathering because of the platform of Prince Music, so that Prince Music can enrich the content of China holy music in various musical forms. He contacted and realized the wishes of many Christian professional musicians, making this network a blessing for many overseas Chinese churches. Prince Music has released more than 65,438+00 albums of hymns overseas, and held many praise concerts in the United States, Canadian, Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian, Taiwan Province and Hongkong. At the same time, they are also committed to the training of church music priests and the training assistance of church orchestras, advocating music preaching, worship and praise, and emphasizing the correct use of copyright. "Prince Music" has always encouraged China people to create sacred music, hoping to promote the sacred kingdom of Christ through music by establishing sound distribution channels. Hong Qiyuan has visited China many times. Recently, many of his poems originated from some touching stories he saw in China. During the music recording of this latest album "On the Green Grassland", Prince Music cooperated with the Chinese Symphony Orchestra and two poetry classes of Chinese mainland Christian Association-Fuzhou Hu Axiang Church Youth Poetry Class of Fujian Christian Association and Beijing Christian Association New Songs Orchestra to complete this project. In the process of preparing for recording and rehearsing, these brothers and sisters at home and abroad have established friendship and tacit understanding. With all kinds of gifts, let's sing the praises of our Lord Jesus Christ who died on the cross and explain the message of redemption together. No matter composers, musicians or other brothers and sisters involved in this music Ministry, they should convey the most important message in the Christian faith: Jesus loves you, loves me and loves each of us, and our benefits do not exceed him. You and I can also praise the holy name of the Lord Jesus together if we want to hear it. Vast sky, vast grassland; The existence of God is never isolated; The sky is boundless, the earth is boundless, and God's love lasts forever. The latest music album "On the Green Grassland" is mainly manifested in making a sound to the whole world and singing heartfelt praise to the creator and the glorious Lord. However, as far as the lead composer Hong Qiyuan is concerned, in this fourth album of his own, we can feel that his current music creation style is full of strong Chinese flavor, with the aim of revealing China cultural characteristics in Christian worship music. In order to achieve this goal, Hong Qiyuan devoted a lot of "root-seeking" efforts, and also revealed his attempt to combine ethnic culture and music with Christian sacred music, hoping that this success will become the spiritual wealth of future generations. However, as a pioneer of religious music creation in contemporary China, it is difficult to define Hong Qiyuan's personal creation in a fixed form. It seems that many different musical styles can be interpreted and created by him. Moreover, there is no doubt that more than 200 poems written and published by him are widely used by the churches in China, and many of them are poems that we are already familiar with, such as Let Praise Fly, Love Me, It's good to know you, A Safe Night in July, The Lord Blessed me with a Life of Freedom, Love and Joy, and Winning the City for the Lord. In recent years, Hong Qiyuan's works are oriental and westernized, trying to create and outline a map of worship music with China characteristics, thus showing that Christianity can introspect from China's thinking in culture and get rid of the burden of "foreign religion" in China's traditional concept. Because of his dual background of studying theology and music, Hong Qiyuan devoted himself to positioning each hymn as a subtle message, then enriching it with an emotional melody and releasing the information with the arrangement of pitch and rhythm. Different from what we usually receive when listening to sermons, Hong Qiyuan's poems guide listeners to taste, empathize and worship the whole person, and then guide us to praise Almighty God. After nearly two years of hard work and dedication, Hong Qiyuan's album On the Green Grassland, produced by overseas Christian "Prince Music", was officially published in China Christian Congress in July. This is the day set by God. Let's rejoice in it together. Please pray for Hong Qiyuan to preach and fill him with the Holy Spirit, so that our church can have more and more beautiful music to worship and praise our God. Excerpted from the Gospel Times Source: Provided by the author | Zhang Ruoshui