Xian Xinghai (June 13, 195-October 3, 1945), male, formerly known as Huang Xun and Kong Yu, was born in Panyu, Guangdong (later changed to Lanhe Town, Nansha District, Guangzhou), and was a famous composer and pianist in China in modern times. He was known as the "people's musician". In 1926, he entered Peking University Music Institute, and in 1928, he entered Shanghai National Conservatory of Music to study music. In 1929, he went to Paris to work and study, and studied under the famous violinist Pani Obedoffer and the famous composer Paul Dukas. After returning to China in 1935, he took an active part in the anti-Japanese national salvation movement. In 1938, he went to Yan 'an, and later served as the director of the music department of Lu Xun Art College. In June 1939, he joined the China * * * Production Party. In October 1945, due to fatigue and malnutrition, his lung disease became more and more serious, and finally Xian Xinghai died in Moscow.

Xian Xinghai's life experience is rich and hard. During his short 4-year life, he experienced the transformation from an ordinary poor boatman's son to a musician and then to a proletarian revolutionary. The reason why Xian Xinghai can reach a higher level of life is directly related to his own experience, ability, pursuit of ideological realm, and his own character and style. Xian Xinghai's personality quality can be summarized as follows:

(1) fortitude and perseverance. This is the most prominent characteristic of Xian Xinghai's personality. Xian Xinghai lived in a time when the Chinese nation was suffering from domestic troubles and foreign invasion, and the misfortune of the nation made life more difficult for every family in China. Xian Xinghai's father died early when he was a child, and he only relied on his mother to do odd jobs to support his family. This is the epitome of millions of family life in China at the beginning of last century. However, Xian Xinghai didn't give up his pursuit of ideals because his family was poor and lacked food and clothing. Since he was a child, he has developed a hard-working lifestyle and developed the qualities of fortitude, tenacity and self-improvement. Therefore, he was able to inspire himself and write the world-famous The Yellow River Cantata under the condition of insufficient food, malnutrition and illness.

(2) aim high. Being a man should be ambitious, which is a very important part of China's traditional cultural concept. More than two thousand years ago, Confucius taught

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his disciples to be "self-cultivation for respect", "self-cultivation for peace" and "self-cultivation for peace". Zhang Wei, a philosopher in Ming Dynasty, believed that an ideal moral personality should be able to "preach and help the people". These ancient teachings have inspired generations of children from poor backgrounds to pursue their ideals persistently and become the pillars of the country. This ideal moral personality has also been well reflected in Xian Xinghai. Although Xian Xinghai was born in poverty, he has lofty aspirations. His ideal in life is to create China's symphony and make China a world music power. In order to realize his life ideal, he went to France to work and study alone, and his life was so hard that he fainted from hunger several times, but he did not hesitate, and finally he was admitted to the Paris Conservatory of Music, which took a solid step for the realization of his ideal.

(3) seeking truth and being pragmatic. Xian Xinghai's pragmatic style is mainly reflected in his academic style: first, he correctly judged and grasped the realistic needs of China's mass culture, and created the creative road of China's mass revolutionary music; Second, he explored the way of folk music creation with distinctive national characteristics and acceptable to the people. During the five years from 1935 to 194, Xian Xinghai wrote hundreds of anti-Japanese war songs, which injected strong spiritual impetus into the national liberation movement. The composer's works must adopt the music language familiar to the people if they want to be accepted by the people. Xian Xinghai digs deeply into the national music language, and his works have distinctive national characteristics, which are accepted and loved by the people.