Unity is strength - Huo Yong

Lyrics: Mu Hong

Music: Lu Su

Unity is strength

This strength is iron

This strength is steel

Harder than iron

Stronger than steel< /p>

Fire at fascism

Let all undemocratic systems die

Toward the sun

Towards freedom

Toward New China

Shines light

Unity is strength

Unity is strength

This strength is iron

This power is steel

Harder than iron

Stronger than steel

Fire at fascism

Let all undemocratic systems Death

Toward the sun

Towards freedom

Toward the new China

Shine a boundless lightExtended information

"Unity It’s Power”

The composer of this song is Lu Su, who studied composition and chorus conducting at the Music Department of Yan’an Luyi. At that time, he composed "Plain Cantata", "Production Cantata", "Spring Plowing Cantata" and other works. The song that is still sung in different historical periods is the song "Unity is Strength" he composed in 1943.

Composer Lu Su talked about the creative background of this song: "1943 was the most difficult period of the Anti-Japanese War. Chiang Kai-shek passively resisted the war, especially after the Eighth Route Army fought the 'Hundred Regiments War', all the The Japanese and puppet troops focused their military efforts on the Eighth Route Army. At that time, the people in the mountainous areas of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region were suffering particularly hard, and the rents paid to the landlords were extremely heavy. At that time, they proposed to reduce rents and interest rates.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Unity is strength