Chapter 2709 2711 [Vernacular Song]

Author: Ji Mobai

Chapter 2709 2711 [Vernacular Song]

In the next few days, Xiang Nan's new poem "Believe in the Future" spread on campus, and soon spread from Peking University to major schools in the capital and even across the country.

The young people who saw this poem were all shocked by Xiang Nan's new poem.

His high fighting spirit, surging momentum, and unyielding faith all aroused strong resonance among readers.

Coupled with the previously written poems such as "A Generation" and "Answer", Xiang Nan has further gained recognition from young readers, who even called him the "Soul of Youth Poetry".

Xiang Nan's popularity and influence among young people have also reached a new height. This has also resulted in a large number of audit students gathering every time he takes one of his classes.

Not only was the classroom full of people, but even the windows were crowded with people, crouching as if they were watching rare animals.

Fortunately, Xiang Nan was used to seeing big scenes, so he didn't take it seriously. Anyone else would have been shocked.

Seeing that his popularity and influence are so high, Xiang Nan is naturally secretly happy. For him, the higher his popularity, the stronger his ability to protect himself.

If he becomes a famous scholar in China and the West, he will be popular wherever he goes. Even if Japan invades in the future, he will not dare to do anything to him.

…

"Down with the powers, down with the powers.

Eliminate the warlords Eliminate the warlords

we want to be the master

we want to be the master

Let’s sing together, let’s sing together”

On the campus of Peking University, students gathered together to sing, with high spirits and high morale. Xiang Nan couldn't help but be attracted by them and stopped to listen.

"Teacher Jin, please come and sing together." When the students saw him, they all invited him.

Xiang Nan smiled and nodded, turned around, and submitted a new song to the "Peking University Daily" - "Men Should Strengthen Theirself".

"Facing the waves with pride

Hot blood is like the red sunlight

Courage is like iron and bone is like fine steel

A broad mind and a far-sighted vision

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Stand tall and hold your chest high, let's all be the pillars

Be a good man

Use me to heat up a hundred points

Shine a thousand points of light”

As soon as the new song came out, it immediately attracted attention.

However, there were still few people who could read music at that time, and I always felt that it was not interesting enough even if I sang it over and over again.

"Teacher Jin, how do you sing "Men Should Be Strong"? Can you teach us how to sing it?" Later, the students approached Xiang Nan and asked.

"Okay." Xiang Nan coughed lightly and then started singing.

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"Men Should Strengthen themselves" is written based on the ancient music "General's Order".

The "General's Order" was created during the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than a thousand years. It has been passed down to this day, which shows that everyone's acceptance is still relatively high.

"Men Should Be Strong" was written by Huang Zhan. It is passionate, bold and uninhibited. It is full of high-spirited momentum and the spirit of self-improvement, so it became very popular after its release.

Now when Xiang Nan sings, it naturally makes his classmates happy.

"What a great song~"

"Teacher Jin, this song is so nice."

"Men should strive for self-improvement! That's so well said!"

"Use a hundred points of my heat to shine a thousand points of light. Isn't that what we are talking about?"

The classmates praised him and said that they all wanted to learn from Xiang Nan.

Xiang Nan naturally did not hesitate to teach.

The reason why he wrote this song was that he knew that songs were easier to spread than novels, dramas, and poems.

After all, novels, plays, and poems still require a certain level of appreciation, and you must at least be literate to read them.

However, during the Republic of China, the literacy rate of the people was less than 10%, so even if the literate people read Xiang Nan's books, they only accounted for a small proportion.

Songs are different. Even if you are illiterate, you can learn them by listening to others singing. A good song can be sung much more widely than novels, dramas, and poems.

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Sure enough, soon, the song "Men Should Improve themselves" spread from Peking University and was unanimously welcomed by young people.

In the early Republic of China, vernacular songs were generally not good to listen to.

First, the development time is not long enough. Vernacular songs began with Western school songs. Before that, Chinese people listened to operas, ditties, slang tunes, and folk songs.

Western-style schools were only established in the late Qing Dynasty, only ten or twenty years ago. In such a short period of time, vernacular poetry and vernacular literature have not yet become popular, let alone vernacular songs;

Second, the investment was not enough. There were very few composers and lyricists at that time, so the borrowing mentality was basically prevalent. That is, borrowing Western music melodies and then filling in your own lyrics.

For example, "National Revolutionary Song" is adapted from the French children's song "Brother Mark"; Li Shutong's "Farewell" is adapted from the American song "Dream of Home and Mother"; "Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention" is adapted from "Kaiser Wilhelm's Military Training Song" "Adapted from...

Until 1927, "Drizzle" written and composed by Mr. Li Jinhui became popular all over the country. It was the first self-produced and self-sold pop song in China. Therefore, he was called the "Father of Chinese Pop Songs".

Therefore, there is no cinnabar, and red soil is precious. The song "Men Should Improve themselves" has a nice melody and inspirational lyrics. Naturally, it quickly gained everyone's recognition and spread quickly.

Soon, even Hujiang, Yuezhou, Tianfu, Shengjing and other places sang this song, which made Xiang Nan famous and his talent was further recognized.

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Just as Xiang Nan's career was flourishing, in the second half of 2004, the political situation became increasingly uneasy.

The second Zhili-Fengtian war began. In this war, the Zhili-clique warlords mobilized 250,000 troops, and the Fengcheng-clique warlords mobilized 170,000 troops.

It seems that the Feng Faction has fewer troops, but in fact the Feng Faction has better equipment. It has imported a large number of advanced weapons and equipment from Germany and Japan, and its troops have also been reorganized, making their combat effectiveness even stronger.

The Zhili army was not only inferior in equipment, but also had many internal conflicts and conflicts with each other. Even at the critical moment of the war, several major generals actually launched political rebellion.

In this way, the Zhili clique was defeated and the Feng clique was victorious, thus taking control of Peiping and becoming the new speaker.

The Second Zhili-Fengtian War lasted only more than fifty days in total, but the war had already taken a turn for the worse, and the situation had deteriorated far faster than anyone imagined.

Even Jin Quan didn't expect that the Zhili Clan, which had strong soldiers and horses and had 70,000 more soldiers than the Feng Clan, would lose so miserably and so quickly. It was simply unheard of.

"How could the situation deteriorate to this point?! It's simply ridiculous!" he said to Xiang Nan in a very depressed tone.

It had only been half a year since he resigned as prime minister, but he didn't expect that the country's affairs would be in such a state of decline.

"Father, please look away." Xiang Nan advised, "In these years of turmoil, how can there be an eternal king? In troubled times, everyone wants to be the king and hegemony.

Just like during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, powerful vassals and towns proclaimed themselves kings one after another, so there is a saying left, "The emperor would rather have the seed, and the one with strong soldiers and horses will be his ears."

In addition, what the great powers need is a divided, internal strife, and chaotic China, and they will not allow any party to become dominant, nor will they give any party a chance to unify China.

Whichever side is strong, weaken it. Whichever side is weak, support it. The Zhili clique and the Anhui clique have been in power for nearly twelve years, and now it is the turn of the Fengclan to take charge."
Chapter completed!