Nie Er (1912-1935) - loved folk music since childhood. In 1931, he was admitted to the "Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe" sponsored by Li Jinhui in Shanghai. In 1933, he joined the "Friends of the Soviet Union" music group together with Tian Han and Ren Guang and initiated the "China Emerging Music Research Association". In 1934, he organized the Shanghai Left-wing Drama Federation music group with Tian Han, Lu Ji, Ren Guang and others. He is the main backbone of left-wing music activities. He began music creation in 1933 and composed 37 songs, most of which were interludes in movies and dramas. Among them, a large number of outstanding works are of historical value. He is one of the modern composers with the highest success rate in music creation.

Among Nie Er’s song creations, a large proportion of his works reflect the life and struggles of the working class. For example, "Pioneer of the Road", "Song of the Road", "Dock Workers", "New Women" Suite, "Fighting the Yangtze River", etc. all show the heroic image of the working class shouldering the historical burden and being full of confidence in the future. He is the first composer in the history of Chinese music to accurately portray the image of the working class. Secondly, his patriotic song creation is also a widely influential part of his creation, such as "Graduation Song", "March of the Volunteers", "Forward Song", etc., all of which express the Chinese people's sentiments with appealing tones and courageous rhythms. The revolutionary spirit of heroic resistance without fear of rape. Another part of his creations are songs that reflect the suffering and injustice of the disaster-ridden Chinese people, especially songs that describe the painful lives and thoughts and feelings of the oppressed and exploited working women, such as "Flying Flower Song" and "Village Girl Beyond the Great Wall" , "Singer Under the Iron Heel", "Mei Niang Song", "A Female Star", etc. In addition, he also wrote a number of children's songs, such as the famous "Newspaper Selling Song" which was widely circulated.

In short, Nie Er’s songs embody the spirit of the times and revolutionary tendencies in both content and artistic form. He is very good at exploring various art forms and performing bold artistic creations based on the content of the songs. create. His songs not only have a distinctive national style, but also have a strong flavor of the times, and have truly become the voice of the public. Nie Er's music creation pointed out the direction for Chinese revolutionary music, and initially solved how to use music to serve the working people, how to shape the musical image of the oppressed class, and how to inherit traditions and learn from Western music to develop new Chinese national music. Technology and other issues. Therefore, Nie Er is known as the founder of Chinese proletarian music.