"On the Songhua River" is a popular tenor lyric song composed by Zhang Hanhui in 1936.

"Songhua River" [Song] - Lyrics

My home is on the Songhua River in the Northeast,

There are forests and coal mines there,

And there are soybeans and sorghum all over the mountains and plains.

My home is on the Songhua River in Northeast China.

There are my compatriots there,

and my aging parents.

"September 18", "September 18",

From that tragic time.

Leave my hometown,

Abandon the endless treasure,

Wander! Wandering!

Wandering in the customs all day long!

In which year and month will I be able to return to my lovely hometown?

In which year, in which month,

can we recover the endless treasure?

Dad and mom, dad and mom,

When can we

get together happily? !

On the Songhua River" [Song] - Creation Background

On September 18, 1931, the Japanese invading army launched a massive attack on the three eastern provinces of China. Chiang Kai-shek adopted a policy of non-resistance and drove out the "suppression guerrillas" *"Northeastern officers and soldiers on the front line, carrying old belts, filled the streets of Xi'an. They were forced to live in exile within the customs. They had no home to return to and no revenge to avenge, but they had to work hard for the anti-Japanese and anti-people civil war. They were filled with sorrow and resentment in their hearts, which they wanted to pour out and explode. It was against this background that Zhang Hanhui composed this touching solo song, singing a mixture of sorrow and anger with a tearful tone. He taught his song to students and the masses, and then he led the masses to sing on the city walls and in the streets of Xi'an. His tragic and heroic singing deeply touched the hearts of the Northeast officers and soldiers, and there were tens of thousands of them. After hearing this, several officers and soldiers shed tears. Before and after the "Xi'an Incident" broke out, the singing of "On the Songhua River" could be heard everywhere in Xi'an, and it quickly spread throughout the country.

"My home is on the Songhua River in Northeast China, where there are forests and coal mines. There are also soybeans and sorghum all over the mountains and fields..." This was once known as the "Exile Trilogy" in the 1930s and 1940s. One of them is the anti-Japanese war song "On the Songhua River" which is popular in China.

On the eve of the Xi'an Incident, when the patriotic young people from Xi'an went to Lintong to petition, they arrived at Shilipu. General Zhang Xueliang drove over and advised the students not to go to Lintong for fear of danger. At this time, someone sang "September 18, September 18, from that tragic time, I left my hometown and abandoned the endless treasure. Wandering, wandering..." The tragic song was heartbreaking. After hearing this, Zhang Xueliang said sadly: "Please believe me, I want to resist Japan... I will answer you with facts within a week."

After the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Enlai once represented the Chinese Communist Party **The Eighth Route Army Office in Xi'an attended the meeting of Northeastern Army officers. At the end of the meeting, Zhou commanded the participating officers to sing this song. The sad and angry songs aroused everyone's nostalgia for their hometown. When the song entered "In what year and month will I be able to return to my lovely hometown?", some of the officers in the audience burst into tears, some bowed their heads and cried, and some raised their fists, "We must fight back to my hometown!" Determination fills the singer's chest.

"Songhua River" was first sung by the Provincial No. 2 Middle School, and later spread to the Northeast Army, and quickly sung all over the north and south of the Yangtze River and inside and outside the Great Wall. At that time, this song had not been published, and no one knew that the author was Zhang Hanhui. However, the blood and tears condensed in the melody strongly infected the patriotic Chinese sons and daughters. People rushed to copy and sing it, and above the broken mountains and rivers of the motherland, The call signs from the song were floating everywhere.

On the evening of July 7, 1938, Wuhan held a grand event to mark the anniversary of the Anti-Japanese War. More than 100,000 people boarded hundreds of wooden boats and gathered on the Yangtze River holding torches. At this time, I don't know who took the lead in singing "Songhua River", which immediately aroused everyone's response. The singing of hundreds of thousands of people created a huge sound wave, forming a symphony of emotions that is rare in the world and condensed with blood and tears.

The revolutionary musician Zhang Hanhui, who has been working hard, expressed his cry on behalf of the people and left us this immortal militant tragedy.