The East Is Red (song)

The East is Red (东方 红Chinese, Pinyin Dongfang hong ) is a Chinese song in praise of Mao Zedong.

Was particularly because Tian Han, the author of the official national anthem since 1949 ( March of the Volunteers ) during the Cultural Revolution as a " rightist " criticized and ostracized, so that his anthem from about 1966 to 1976 - It took during the Cultural Revolution almost the status of a national anthem was still played, but not sung.

The text is by Li Youyuan, a farmer from the north of Shaanxi Province, the melody is taken over by a Chinese folk song.

In the fourth movement of the Piano Concerto The Yellow River, a 1969 premiered joint composition of the Chinese Philharmonic Society, the melody of The East is Red processed as a motive.

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东方 红,太阳 升, 中国 出 了 个 毛泽东.

毛主席,爱 人民, 他 是 我们 的 带路 人,

共产党,像 太阳, 照到 哪里 哪里 亮.

Dongfang hóng, Taiyang Sheng, Zhōngguó chū liǎo ge Mao Zedong,

Mao zhǔxí ài Rénmín, Tā shì wǒmén de dài lù řén

Gòngchǎndǎng Xiang Taiyang, Zhào dào nǎlǐ nǎlǐ Liang,

The east is red, the sun rises China has Mao Zedong produced.

Chairman Mao loves the people, He leads us,

The Communist Party is like the sun, And seems just as bright,

Others

Dong Fang Hong and Dong Fang Hong I, the name of Chinese satellites that were launched in the 1970s.

" The East is Red" is also the title of an album by Holger Czukay of 1984.