"Defend the Yellow River" - Chorus

But

Children of the Chinese nation

Who wants to be like pigs and sheep

At the mercy of others

We must be determined to win

Defend the Yellow River

Defend North China

Defend the whole of China< /p>

The wind is roaring

The horses are braying

The Yellow River is roaring

The Yellow River is roaring

The mountains in Hexi are thousands of feet high

The sorghum in Hedong and Hebei is ripe

In the mountains and jungles

There are many anti-Japanese heroes

In the green gauze tent

Guerrilla athletes show off as heroes

Take up foreign guns

Wielding broadswords and spears

Defend hometown

Defend the Yellow River< /p>

Defend North China

Defend the whole of China

The wind is roaring

The horses are braying

The Yellow River is roaring

The Yellow River is Roaring

The mountains in Hexi are ten thousand feet high

The sorghum in Hedong and Hebei is ripe

In the midst of thousands of mountains

Anti-Japanese There are so many heroes

In the green gauze tent

Guerrilla athletes showing off their heroes

Holding up guns and foreign guns

Waving broadswords and spears

Defend hometown

Defend the Yellow River

Defend North China

Defend the whole of China

The wind is roaring

The horses are braying

The Yellow River is roaring

The Yellow River is roaring

The mountains in Hexi are ten thousand feet high

Hedong and Hebei

The sorghum is ripe

In the mountains and jungles

There are many anti-Japanese heroes

In the green gauze tent

The guerrilla athletes are heroic

Take up a foreign gun

Walk a broadsword and a spear

Defend your hometown

Defend the Yellow River

Defend North China

Defend All China Expanded Information

"Defend the Yellow River"

It is the seventh movement of the "Yellow River Cantata". The songs are sung in unison and in turn. It has broad mass appeal and is a song widely spread by the anti-Japanese military and civilians.

"Yellow River Cantata"

is Xian Xinghai's most important and influential symphony masterpiece. It was created in March 1939 and reorganized in the Soviet Union in 1941.

This work is written by the poet Guang Weiran, with the Yellow River as the background, passionately praising the long and glorious history of the Chinese nation and the unyielding fighting spirit of the Chinese people, and lamenting the brutality of the invaders and the severe disasters suffered by the people. , broadly displayed the magnificent picture of the Anti-Japanese War, and issued a battle cry for national liberation to the whole of China and the world, thereby creating a giant heroic image of the Chinese nation.

Guang Weiran (1913～2002.1.28)

Chinese poet and literary critic. His original name was Zhang Guangnian. A native of Guanghua, Hubei. In 1927, he participated in the first civil revolutionary war in his hometown. He has been engaged in progressive drama and literary activities since the 1930s.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Defending the Yellow River