Original singer of "The East Is Red"

"The East is Red" was originally sung by Cui Jianfang.

In October 1964, the large-scale music and dance epic "The East is Red" met the audience for the first time in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with its majestic momentum and majestic scenes. The performance was a great success and became a red art and era classic that combined revolutionary heroism and revolutionary romanticism.

This work *** used a huge lineup of more than 3,000 people, gathering the most authoritative and famous artists of the year. It is one of the largest cultural and artistic performances since the founding of New China. The large-scale music epic "The East is Red" is not only a glorious Chinese revolutionary music epic, but also a classic masterpiece that embodies the wisdom of China's most authoritative and famous songwriters. It brings together outstanding Chinese artists.

Song meaning

Over the years, this carol has become more popular with the liberation of the whole of China, with the gradual prosperity and strength of New China, and with the improvement of people's love. .

This folk song was originally the northern Shaanxi folk song "Riding the White Horse". In the winter of 1943, peasant singers from Jia County, Shaanxi Province (now Jia County) wrote a folk song "Immigration Song" with more than ten paragraphs of lyrics based on the tune of "Riding a White Horse". "Immigration Song" has both narrative and lyrical elements, expressing the joyful mood of the poor farmers in their pursuit of a happy life.

After the song was compiled, it was sung by Li Youyuan's nephew and farmer singer Li Zengzheng many times at folk and mass gatherings, and was very popular among people. Subsequently, Yan'an literary and artistic workers organized and deleted "Immigration Song" into three lyrics, and renamed it "Dongfanghong", which was published in "Liberation Daily" in 1944.