Library of the National Revolutionary Army’s New First Army Military Song Lyrics to the Military Song of Intellectual Youth

If you don’t see me, the army of the Han Dynasty will end, and the weak-headed prisoners will ask for long tassels ①,

If you don’t see me, the squad will be far away, and the Jueyu Qingqi will urge the war cloud ②!

A man should be in a dangerous position ③, how can he let a Confucian scholar ruin his life④?

Kuang Nai's country is in danger, and Yu Xi's race is endless!

Abandoning my old writings, I keep my wartime writings ⑥,

One call for more than 100,000 comrades, singing war songs to join the army together ⑦.

Clean the dust and swear to sweep away the Japanese slaves regardless of your own safety!

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Be patient with your homesickness, and generously express your desire to serve your country.

Going to the battlefield with a proud smile, the flag is fluttering and the sun is fading,

The air blows into the Pleiades moon ⑧, and I pull the long arrow to shoot the Sirius ⑨.

After quarrying for a long time, Jinling was restored⑩, Jilu Jihei was leveled,

The ship broke the waves and sailed out of the Liaohai Sea, and the iron bird covered the sky and flew towards Tokyo⑴!

After smashing the Japanese slave caves overnight, the water of the Pacific Ocean turned red.

The Han flag was flying on the top of Mount Fuji, and the concubine was drunk under the cherry blossom tree.

After returning, thousands of people watched along the road, and flowers were thrown in front of the horse.

The door lintel was shining with white hair, and the house was full of joy and beauty.

The history of the country clearly marks the first merit, and China will be called the Great Hero from now on.

There is still power left to punish injustice, so that all mankind around the world can share the spirit of the Han Dynasty⑵! ① Zhongjun, whose surname is Zhongmingjun and whose courtesy name is Ziyun, was born during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. There is a rumor in the Han Dynasty: Nanyue made peace with the Han Dynasty, so he sent troops to Nanyue to tell his king that he wanted to send troops to the dynasty to compete with the princes in the country. The army asked himself: "I would like to receive a long tassel, and I will restrain the King of South Vietnam and bring him to the palace." However, he was eventually killed by South Vietnam. He was only more than 20 years old when he died. People at the time called him "Tong Tong". Zhongjun is from Jinan, and now there is Zhongjun Square in Jinan. Panyu (today's Guangzhou City), the capital of South Vietnam, was built by Zhao Tuo, the commander of Longchuan in Nanyue County. Tuo was also Han and native of Hebei.

②Ban Chao, whose surname is Ban Chao and whose given name is Zhongsheng. His father, Ban Biao, his brother, Ban Gu, and his sister, Ban Zhao, were all known as Cao Jia (gū). They were all historians of the Han Dynasty. When Chao was a small official copying books, he once hoped to perform meritorious service in a foreign land in order to win the title of marquis, so he put down his pen and sighed: How long will it take to write and ink? In the 16th year of Yongping reign of Emperor Ming Dynasty, he only led 36 people to the Western Regions and settled more than 50 cities. After more than 30 years of military expedition to the Western Regions, Fan was granted the title of Marquis of Dingyuan.

Qingqi urged Zhanyun, saying that Ban Chao and Guo Xun led thirty-six subordinates to the Western Regions. They used both kindness and power to assist various countries in the Western Regions to resist the invasion of the Huns and pro-Hun countries. More than ten countries submitted to the Han Dynasty. There is a famous saying "If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get tiger cubs."

③ The words come from "The Analects of Confucius? Xianwen" "If a country has the way, it is dangerous to speak and act; if the country is not ethical, it is dangerous to speak to the descendants." Wei, Tall and steep. Confucius originally intended the words and deeds to express the spirit of a gentleman. In an enlightened and prosperous age, you can express it as much as you want, but when you are helping the unjust, you must be careful with your words, but you cannot do things that a gentleman should not do. That is to say, you must act in a certain way whenever you act end. When the song was written, the country was in crisis, and it was intended to encourage young people to show the noble spirit of the ancients.

④The first sentence of Du Fu's "Twenty-Two Rhymes to Wei Zuocheng" "The rich man will not starve to death, and the scholar's crown will miss his body." Such as "Everything is useless and it is a scholar" are just the complaints of scholars, Quoting here should be regarded as inspirational.

⑤Feather letter, chicken feather letter, often refers to an urgent letter reporting war. The first line of Bao Zhao's poem "A Journey out of Jibeimen" "The feathers raised up the pavilion, and the beacon fire entered Xianyang." The last line "Throw yourself to serve the Lord, and die to mourn the country." I don't know if the author has this association.

⑥ Imitate the sentence "Take off my war robe and put on my old clothes" in "Mulan Ci" (the entire poem's narrative is also imitated in "Mulan Ci"), still using Ban Chao's writing to join the army.

⑦ "One inch of mountains and rivers, one inch of blood, one hundred thousand young people and one hundred thousand troops." This is the call for educated young people when they join the army. On October 21, 1944, at a meeting of educated youth joining the army, Chiang Kai-shek issued a slogan that made young people excited: "One inch of mountains and rivers, one inch of blood, one hundred thousand young people, one hundred thousand troops." For a time, an upsurge of educated youth joining the army was formed in many places.

⑧ The ancients classified the stars in the sky as xiù and observed the movements of the sun, moon and five stars (the sun, the moon and the five "planets" of water, gold, fire, wood and earth). Su Shi's "Ode to the Former Red Cliff": "A few years ago, the moon rose above the east mountain, wandering among the bullfights." This is the coordinate method of the twenty-eight constellations. Ang Yue, the moon high above. Taibai, Venus, occasionally passes through the Pleiades and is also close to the moon.

Although the celestial phenomena have evolved, to use the metaphor of a bullfighting or a bullfighting, Taibai actually blew us into the Pleiades and the moon, and we were so heroic! Most of the people who quoted this song said: The air blows too white into the high moon, and the two characters "Pleiades" and "Ang" are too similar. No wonder the other one is wrong.

⑨The last sentence of Su Shi's "Jiangchengzi: Hunting in Mizhou" "I will draw the eagle bow like the full moon, look northwest, and shoot at Sirius." The star of Sirius is the master of invasion and plunder, and shooting at Sirius should be used to quell foreign invasion.

⑩ It should refer to the Battle of Caishiji in the Song and Jin Dynasties. In the last years of Shaoxing, the Southern Song Dynasty army, commanded by the civil servant Yu Yunwen, defeated the Jin army in Caishiji, making it impossible for the Jin army to cross the Yangtze River and invade the Song Dynasty. "Recovering Jinling" refers to recovering the old capital. This actually refers to the rapid recovery of Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist Government, through this battle. Sure enough, on October 21, 1944, after the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government promulgated the "Measures for the Recruitment of Intellectual Youths into the Army" and other regulations, By the year the Anti-Japanese War was victorious.

⑴ Imagine the scene of warships and aircraft advancing toward Japan in the northeast direction, and look forward to China's counterattack. However, only the "Capture of Berlin" staged the European version of this scene. Neither the Nationalist Government nor the Communist Party staged this quick drama of resolving hatred. They only performed surrender on their own land.

⑵ This paragraph is a combination of imagination and pride, without any regard for allusions, but the high spirit of the Han nation is beyond words. It must be in the same line as the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, the expulsion of the Tartars and the restoration of China, and is in line with today's Harmony, harmony, peace, harmony and other low-key things are completely different. The background of the creation of this song is the movement of intellectual youth joining the army.

In March 1943, the Legislative Yuan of the National Government promulgated the new Military Service Law, which expanded the scope of military conscription and narrowed the scope of deferred service; it encouraged young students to join the army and stipulated that students should retain their student status during their military service, which made young students, especially College students eliminate worries about their student status.

On November 23, 1943, 28 teachers and students from Santai National Northeastern University in Sichuan Province, headed by Zhao Huizhong, and more than a hundred students from various middle schools requested the county government to join the expeditionary force to kill the enemy. On November 15, 1943, Xu Siping, Lieutenant General Chief of Staff of the Sichuan Provincial Military District, attended the "Prime Minister's Memorial Week" at Northeastern University and delivered a speech. He talked about the reasons for requiring intellectuals to participate in the military stationed in India, saying that this was to "strengthen the expeditionary force." , to open up the Yunnan-Burma Road”. On the spot, 15 boys and 4 girls applied to join the army. Xu Siping wrote to Chiang Kai-shek, suggesting that the youth military movement be promoted to the entire Kuomintang-controlled area.

In December 1943, the Military Service Administration of the Ministry of Military Affairs of the National Government promulgated the "Measures for Student Voluntary Service", which stipulates: "Any student from a secondary school or above who volunteers to serve should be limited to students who are over 18 years old."

In September 1944, Chiang Kai-shek called for "one hundred thousand educated youth to join the army" and promulgated many special preferential treatment regulations for educated youth to join the army, such as suspension of employment and salary retention; students retaining their school status; families affected by anti-Japanese soldiers Preferential treatment for family members, etc. The government made a big splash in society, and newspapers and slogans stepped up publicity.

Chiang Kai-shek said on October 12, 1944: "First, it is necessary to make ordinary citizens change their past psychology about military service, so as to actively apply for military service to enrich their combat strength. Second, it is necessary to make the general public Change the attitude towards the Chinese Kuomintang, understand the spirit of sacrifice of the Chinese Kuomintang, and therefore accept the leadership of the Kuomintang and work together to complete the revolutionary mission. The latter is more important than the former.

1944. On October 21, 2011, at a meeting of educated youth joining the army, Chiang Kai-shek issued a slogan that made young people excited: "One inch of mountains and rivers, one inch of blood, one hundred thousand young people, one hundred thousand troops." For a time, an upsurge of educated youth joining the army was formed in many places.

After that, the Youth Expeditionary Army went to the front one after another, and was demobilized in the autumn of 1946. According to the article "Memories of the Youth Army" by Huang Wei, who once served as the intellectual youth army and the deputy director of the Youth Army's training department, in 1944. In more than a year after the mobilization in September, nearly 100,000 educated young people were recruited to join the army.

The training period for the Youth Expeditionary Force is three months, and the training subjects range from weapons to tactics, disciplines, and techniques. The youth expeditionary force is also divided into artillery, infantry, engineering, etc. After entering the camp, they are organized and trained based on academic qualifications, physical fitness, volunteerism, etc. After a short period of training, each division is formally incorporated into the regular army.

The 9 divisions of the Youth Army belong to the 6th Army, 9th Army, and 31st Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force respectively. In addition, a considerable number of them were transferred to the New 1st Army, New 6th Army, 5th Army, and the 14th and 15th Baggage Truck Regiment. , the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Military Police Training Regiments, the Paratrooper Corps, the Interpreter Training Class, the Radio Training Class, and the Navy and Air Force units sent to the United States for training, totaling 18,770 people. Among them, more than 500 people from the 201st Division went to India for training; more than 250 people from the 203rd Division went to India for training, 48 were provided as translators, and 4 people were recommended to train at aviation schools; 1,074 people from the 204th Division went to India for training. Hundreds of people from the 207th Division went to India for training. The total number of young troops allocated to the Indo-Myanmar Expeditionary Force is more than 10,000. After graduating from training in India, they were quickly sent to the Indo-Myanmar frontline to serve in technical arms such as transportation and tank crews. The Youth Army successively participated in the major counterattack in northern Myanmar, such as the battles of Myitkyina, Bhamo, Namkan, and Lashio, and played an active role in opening up the China-India highway. The historical songwriters of the "Army Song of Intellectual Youth" are unknown. The song first came from the New First Army of the Chinese Army in India. The lyrics originated from a poem written by a Chinese soldier who was a trainer at Ramgarh Base in India. He was then a member of the New First Army. The famous national army general Sun Liren, deputy commander of the army, once praised this song. Currently, only the first verse of "Song of Intellectual Youth Joining the Army" circulated on the Internet is authentic and appeared in the documents of the time. The latter part is considered to be a forgery by later generations, because there is a huge gap between the two parts in terms of writing style and level. In the previous section, the language is quaint, the usage is precise, and the style is vigorous. In the latter part, the wording is rough, the allusions are almost copied from some famous poems, and there are many places that do not rhyme in the text. For example, the rhymes used in the first paragraph are all the same, and the 11 rhymes in the continuation use 6 rhyme words respectively. This is unlikely for people who are familiar with poetry writing, but it is closer to the current rhymes. Internet poets who lack understanding of rhyme. In particular, there are words like "Crush the Japanese slave caves overnight, and the Pacific Ocean will turn red." "Red" was relatively taboo at the time, and it should not have been written by the soldiers of the national army at that time.

The biggest highlight of "Song of the Intellectual Youth Joining the Army" lies in its gorgeous diction and rich allusions. Almost every line of the lyrics has a poetic allusion, making it catchy to read.

The lyrics of this song are very contagious, with extensive use of historical allusions and full of Chinese characteristics. The image of a passionate young man who is determined to be loyal and devote himself to the army is vividly displayed on the paper, making the listener feel his blood pumping. , not only arouses the audience's sense of responsibility that "everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world", but also arouses the audience's desire to make contributions to the army and shine on the lintel. However, because the song is mainly targeted at educated youth, the lines of the song inevitably reveal the unique romanticism of educated youth. The color is somewhat divorced from reality, but despite its flaws, this is still a rare anti-war song.