"Congratulations, Congratulations" is actually an anti-Japanese song? This song "Congratulations, Congratulations" is heard every year during the Chinese New Year, but everyone thinks it is a New Year's greeting song. In fact, you are all wrong.

"Congratulations, Congratulations" is actually an anti-Japanese song? This song is heard every year during the Chinese New Year, but everyone thinks it is a New Year's greeting song. In fact, you are all wrong. So, why is it that Congratulations is an anti-Japanese song? Let’s take a look.

Congratulations is an anti-Japanese song. What's going on?

"Congratulations" was originally composed in 1945 to celebrate the victory of the Anti-Japanese War . The lyrics are meaningful: "After many difficulties, how many trials, how much hope, hope News of Spring”. Because the song was released just on the eve of the Lunar New Year, it became known as a "New Year's song" and was sung year after year. Later, the arrangement also added the sound of gongs and drums, making it more suitable for the happy New Year atmosphere.

"Congratulations" has a simple arrangement and catchy lyrics, including the word "congratulations" dozens of times. There are five lyrics in the whole song, the first one being the most well-known. Zhang Mengrui, a senior media person, pointed out that the lyrics respectively describe the end of winter and the coming of spring, plum blossoms, hardships, and the news of spring. The original intention of the lyrics "so much suffering and hardships" was to describe the eight-year struggle of the Anti-Japanese War, and it turned out to be a logical transition. It comforts people for their hard work over the past year; "How many hearts are looking forward to the news of spring." This feeling of looking forward to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War has also been transformed into a rejuvenation blessing for the new year.

Creative background

This New Year's song is well-known to Chinese people around the world and has been sung thousands of times. However, many people don't know that this New Year's song was not originally used to celebrate the New Year. It was originally to celebrate the Anti-Japanese War. The war is won. Modern China is a country in extreme war and poverty. At that time, the people not only had no clothes and no food to eat, but they also had to escape from the hail of bullets every second. It was not until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945 that the pouring tears soaked countless withered and tired hearts. The Chinese people, who had been tired for half a century, finally had the courage to look forward to tomorrow. In this context, this song was born. From the original singer Yao Li's singing, we can also hear his extremely complicated mood at that time. The song was written by Chen Gexin ( Chen Gang's father) and Yao Min and Yao Li's brother and sister sang it.

Later this song was covered by many singers, Teresa Teng , Zhuo Yiting , Zhang Xiaoying , Lin Meihui , Han Baoyi , Xie Caiyu , Gao Shengmei , Robin , Zhong Shengzhong , Yan Qing , Chen Liangquan, Jiang Jiarong, Jiao Enjun, Luo Shifeng, Liu Ziling, Liu Qingfeng, Summer Style, Zhang Di, Xiao Pingping, Four Thousand Gold, Tang Yan... From the post-60s, the post-70s, the post-80s, to the post-90s, People born in the 2000s and 10s all like this popular New Year song.

lyrics

Yao Li: Every street and alley

Everyone's mouth

The first sentence when we meet

is congratulations

(Chorus) Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations

Congratulations, congratulations,

Yao Min: Winter has come to the end

What good news

The warm spring breeze

is about to wake up the earth

(Chorus) Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations to you

Congratulations, congratulations to you

Yao Li: The vast ice and snow are melting

Seeing plum blossoms spit

The long night has passed

Hearing A chicken crow

(Chorus) Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations to you

Congratulations, congratulations to you

Yao Min: How many difficulties have gone through

How many trials have gone through

How much hope is there

Hope for the news of spring

Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations

Congratulations, congratulations Congratulations

Yao Li: In every street and alley

In everyone’s mouth

The first sentence when we meet

is congratulations, congratulations

(Chorus) Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations

Congratulations,

Congratulations,

Congratulations, congratulations, why is it an anti-Japanese song? That’s all for sharing. Today I realized that the song I heard since I was a child is not a New Year’s greeting song. I’ve learned a lot.