1. Left-wing Music Movement

In March 1930, the Chinese Left-wing Writers Alliance was established. Its journals have continuously published articles on music criticism, introducing Soviet revolutionary music and Marxist music views, and calling on musicians to create "emerging music" that can be accepted by the workers and peasants. Qu Qiubai, the leader of the "Left-Left Alliance", requires writers and artists to go deep into the lower classes, familiarize themselves with and use various traditional literary and artistic forms, including folk music forms, to create popular revolutionary literature and art. The left-wing music organizations established successively include: the "Beiping Left-wing Musicians Alliance" organized by Nie Er, Wang Dandong, Li Yuanqing and others in the autumn of 1932; the music music organization established by Tian Han, Nie Er, Ren Guang and others in the Shanghai Friends of the Soviet Union in the spring of 1933 group (also known as the "Sino-Soviet Music Society"); at the same time, the "China Emerging Music Research Society" initiated by Nie Er, Ren Guang, and Zhang Shu, and the "Left-wing Dramatists Alliance Music Group" formally formed in the spring of 1934, participated Those include Tian Han, Ren Guang, Zhang Shu, An'e, Lu Ji, etc. At that time, there were some musicians such as He Luting, Xian Xinghai, Mai Xin, etc. Although they did not join the above-mentioned organizations, their creative guiding ideology was consciously or unconsciously consistent with the policies of the "Left-Left Alliance".

The work done by the left-wing music movement was multifaceted and had a profound impact at the time. They composed songs for progressive films, dramas and mass national salvation singing activities, such as "Light of Motherhood", "Fishing Light Song", "The Road", "Peach and Plum Tribulation", "Children of the Storm", "Cross Street", "Road Angel" , "Midnight Song" and other films, as well as songs in dramas such as "The Storm on the Yangtze River" and "Put Down Your Whip", most of which are popular and have been circulated for a long time. Songs that aroused the public's awakening and encouraged them to resist Japan and save the nation, such as "Dock Workers' Song", "Song of the Road", "New Women", "Pioneer of the Road", "March of the Volunteers", "The Sacrifice Has Come to the Last Moment", "Fight Back Home" , "March of the Broadsword", "Defense of Homeland", "Guerrilla Song", etc. are the first batch of works created by China's professional music creation team that developed after the "May 4th" movement to reflect real life. The musical language of these songs is popular and vivid, the style is bright and powerful, and the structure is short and concise, creating a new situation in my country's music creation that is in line with the spirit of the times, popular and national.

August 1930. In the resolution "The New Form of the Proletarian Literary Movement and Our Tasks" of the Executive Committee of the "Left-Left Alliance", it was issued to literary and art workers to "go to the factories, to the countryside, to the battlefields, and to the oppressed masses." call. During this period, musicians went deep into factories, mines, urban and rural areas, universities and middle schools, and citizens to teach music knowledge, organize singing activities, and understand people's lives. This was the earliest attempt in modern China to integrate professional musicians with the masses. The left-wing music movement united the patriotic and democratic forces in the music industry, expanded the front of progressive music, and spread progressive music on a larger scale. During their tenure at EMI Records and Lianhua Pictures, Ren Guang, Nie Er and others promoted a large number of progressive songs nationwide through records and videos. At the same time, EMI Chinese Band, EMI New Voice Society, Lianhua Vocal Ensemble, etc. were also organized to expand the influence of left-wing music activities in society. Zhao Yuanren and Huang Zi were also invited to collaborate with He Luting and Lu Ji to create music for the progressive film "Urban Scenery".