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Outline the main characteristics of the development of modern Chinese music in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.

Answer: The characteristics of Chinese vocal music during the Anti-Japanese War are not only the strong flavor of the times and life, but also the unique national style and artistic personality.

Vocal music works during the Anti-Japanese War occupy a very important position in modern Chinese vocal music, and they have unique singing styles. This artistic genre that combines words and music, condenses the theme, unifies the style, and integrates educational and lyrical functions is deeply loved by the public. Therefore, it has a broad social base and gives full play to the inherent function of music as a superstructure.

For example: Xian Xinghai's "Yellow River Cantata" was written in March 1939. This work, with lyrics written by the poet Guang Weiran, uses the Yellow River as the background to enthusiastically praise the long and glorious history of the Chinese nation and China. The people's strong and unyielding fighting spirit, 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 sent a battle cry for national liberation to the whole of China and the world, thus shaping the giant of the Chinese nation. A heroic image.