Nie Er drowned in Japan after writing a patriotic song. Why did he have bleeding from his mouth and nose?

The sky is unpredictable, and people are prone to misfortune and fortune. It is said that in life, destiny is unpredictable, and no one can tell when an accident will happen. But if this kind of accident happens to a celebrity, it will stir up imagination and often make people conduct in-depth analysis of the accident that happened to them. For example, the death of the great people's musician Nie Er, the composer of the national anthem "March of the Volunteers" that everyone is familiar with, is still a question on everyone's mind to this day.

In 1935, Nie Er went to Japan to study in order to evade arrest by the white regime at that time, but unfortunately he drowned while swimming. So some people speculated that Nie Er was killed by the Japanese. They also stated with certainty that after Nie Er's body came ashore, there was still blood in his mouth and head.

(Nie Er)

So, Nie Er, the people’s musician who was only 23 years old at the time, composed dozens of revolutionary songs in his short life and influenced Chinese music for decades. Why did he die young? Was his death a murder?

1. The versatile "Mr. Ear".

Nie Er was born in 1912. His original name was Nie Shouxin and his courtesy name was Ziyi. He was a native of Yuxi, Yunnan. When he was very young, his father died of illness, and it was his mother who worked hard to bring him up. When he was very young, he showed extraordinary musical talent. In 1918, when he was studying in the junior high school of Kunming Normal University, he used his spare time to teach himself flute, erhu, sanxian, yueqin and other musical instruments. He was also the conductor of the school's children's band.

When Nie Shouxin first entered the normal school, his sensitivity to music quickly attracted the attention of his classmates. He would often sing out the music as soon as it entered his ears. As time went by, everyone called him "Mr. Ear".

At a class party, Nie Shouxin not only performed a dance, but also showed the audience his unique skill. His ears could move freely and casually, which made everyone present envious. Seeing everyone bursting into laughter, Nie Shouxin said, since you want to give me another ear, then I will change my name to Nie Er. In this way, adding the three ears of traditional Nie, I will have four ears. From then on, Nie Shouxin Called himself Nie Er.

(Tian Han and Nie Er)

2. Create progressive songs.

Due to his poor family, Nie Er was so poor that he could not even afford cotton-padded clothes during the cold winter in Peking. But he lived frugally and went to slum areas such as Tianqiao and other places to collect folk music materials with the little money he had. He also often traveled in the markets and villages, listening to the cries of low-level vendors and the working chants of rural farmers, in order to obtain The most original musical inspiration.

In order to create "New Women" that reflects the hardships of female workers in the old society, he walked through the morning frost and night dew, and walked like a hurried female worker on their way to work again and again. In order to cry out for the newsboys walking in the streets and alleys, he became friends with many small newsboys and wrote the popular "Newspaper Selling Song".

In 1933, Nie Er joined the party organization under the introduction of Tian Han. At that time, the Japanese invaded our Northeast, and the people in power in the country were still living in a state of dissipation and dissipation. Most of the popular songs in society were songs of depression such as flowers, rain, love, love, etc. Tian Han suggested that he work with him to create some songs to arouse the people's patriotic enthusiasm. songs to boost morale.

(Nie Er in the middle)

3. A swan song that inspires the people.

In early 1935, when Tian Han adapted the movie "Children of the Storm", he drafted the theme song of "March of the Volunteers" and wrote the lyrics on a cigarette box before going to jail. After Nie Er obtained the lyrics, he fled to Japan in order to avoid being hunted by the white regime. After that, it only took two days to complete the composition and finalize it and send it back to China. From then on, this high-spirited and majestic patriotic melody quickly spread throughout the country, playing a great encouraging role in the subsequent Anti-Japanese War.

On July 17, 1935, 23-year-old Nie Er drowned while swimming in Fujisawa City, Japan. The "March of the Volunteers", which has been sung to this day, turned out to be his swan song of patriotism.

At that time, the coastal monitoring station in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan suddenly received a report in the evening. A Japanese woman named Hamada Hiroko and a North Korean man named Lee Sang-nam anxiously told the police that the Chinese who swam with them at the beach was missing. His name was Nie Shouxin.

It was not until the next day that the police found Nie Er's body in the nearby sea. After forensic examination, it was determined that he died of suffocation in the water. At that time, Nie Er's body had bleeding from his head and nostrils. , so the country thought that the Japanese hated him for resisting Japan, and sent people to kill him and throw his body into the sea. However, judging from the autopsy report and the actual situation at the time, this conclusion does not seem to be valid.

First of all, Nie Er composed revolutionary songs mainly between 1933 and 1935. Although he wrote a number of widely sung songs, many people still don't know that these songs signed Nie Er were written by the real Nie Shouxin, and his fame was not so great that Japan sent people to assassinate him.

Secondly, Nie Er’s good friend Zhang Tianxu also participated in the entire process from Nie Er’s body identification to his burial. From his later memoirs, there is no doubt that Nie Er's death was caused by someone else. On the contrary, there is a description that Nie Er had poor swimming skills, could not breathe, and was a "submarine" who often sank to the bottom.

Again, Hiroko Hamada, who was traveling with her that day, recalled that she and her son were playing in the shallow water, while Nie Er swam to the deep water alone. Some swimming professionals also said that people who drown for too long usually experience bleeding from the mouth and nose.

Therefore, the death of musician Nie Er should be due to exhaustion or accidental drowning caused by sudden illness.

The "March of the Volunteers" left by Nie Er before his death has become a precious legacy and has been sung as our national anthem to this day.