Xian Xinghai’s personality

Xian Xinghai’s life experience can be described as rich and difficult. In his short life of 40 years, he experienced the transformation from an ordinary poor boatman's son, to a musician, and then to a proletarian revolutionary. The reason why Xian Xinghai was able to reach a higher realm in life is directly related to his own experience, ability, pursuit of ideological realm, as well as his own character and style. Xian Xinghai's personality qualities can be summarized in the following aspects:

(1) Perseverance and perseverance, and constant self-improvement. This is the most prominent trait in Xian Xinghai's personality. Xian Xinghai lived in an era when the Chinese nation was suffering from internal and external troubles, weakness and poverty. The misfortune of the country and the nation made the life of every Chinese family even more difficult. Xian Xinghai's father died early when he was young, and he relied on his mother to do odd jobs to support his family. This is the epitome of the life of millions of families in China at the beginning of the last century. However, Xian Xinghai did not give up the pursuit of his ideals because his family was poor and lacked food and clothing. He developed a hard-working lifestyle since he was a child and developed the qualities of perseverance and self-improvement. Therefore, he was able to motivate himself despite lack of food, malnutrition, and illness and wrote the world-famous "Yellow River Cantata."

(2) Aim high. Being ambitious is a very important part of traditional Chinese culture. More than two thousand years ago, Confucius taught his disciples to be people who "cultivate themselves to be respectful," "cultivate themselves to bring peace to others," and "cultivate themselves to bring peace to the people." Zhang Shi, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, believed that an ideal moral personality should be able to "preach the gospel and benefit the people." These ancient sayings have inspired generations of children from poor backgrounds to pursue their ideals persistently and become pillars of the country. This ideal moral personality has also been excellently reflected in Xian Xinghai. Although Xian Xinghai came from a poor background, he had high aspirations. His ideal in life was to create Chinese symphonies and make China a world music power. In order to realize his ideal in life, he went to France alone to work and study. The life was so hard that he fainted from hunger several times, but he never looked back and was finally admitted to the Paris Conservatoire, taking a solid step towards the realization of his ideal.

(3) Seeking truth and being pragmatic. Xian Xinghai's truth-seeking and pragmatic style is mainly reflected in his academic style: first, his correct judgment and grasp of the direction of the realistic needs of Chinese popular culture, and created a path for the creation of Chinese popular revolutionary music; second, his exploration It has created a national music creation path that combines Chinese and Western elements with distinct national characteristics and is acceptable to the people. In the five years from 1935 to 1940, Xian Xinghai wrote hundreds of anti-Japanese war songs, injecting strong spiritual power into the national liberation movement. For a composer's works to be accepted by the people, he must adopt a musical language familiar to the people. Xian Xinghai deeply explored the national music language. His works have distinctive national characteristics and are accepted and loved by the people. (1) Reality requires Xian Xinghai’s personality quality. Today's society still needs Xian Xinghai's personality. The will quality of perseverance and perseverance is the inner driving force for a person's survival and development. The lofty ideological realm of high ambition, national justice and truth-seeking and pragmatic style are the qualities necessary to achieve great achievements. These excellent personality qualities are also an important connotation of today's socialist core value system, reflecting the high degree of coordination and unity between individuals and society in the pursuit of values ??and interests such as desires, requirements, ideals, needs, and interests.

(2) We must vigorously promote and inherit the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation. At present, in the process of building a socialist core value system, we must re-understand the value of the Chinese nation's excellent history and culture, and inherit and promote it more consciously. At present, there must be clear goals and feasible measures to carry forward and inherit the excellent cultural traditions of the Chinese nation. First, we must aim to awaken people’s awareness of human dignity and promote benevolent qualities. Second, we must explore ways and means to inherit China’s excellent traditional culture in social education, school education and family education. Among them, absorbing the excellent cultural genes from the personality qualities of historical figures and inheriting and developing them should be one of the feasible measures.