In the next few days, Xiang Nan's new poem "Believe in the Future" spread on campus, and soon spread from Peking University to major schools in the capital and even across the country.
The young people who saw this poem were all shocked by Xiang Nan's new poem.
The high-spirited fighting spirit, surging momentum, and unyielding faith all aroused strong resonance among readers.
Coupled with the previously written poems such as "A Generation" and "Answer", Xiang Nan has further gained recognition from young readers, who even called him the "Soul of Youth Poetry".
Xiang Nan's popularity and influence among young people have also reached a new height. This also resulted in a large number of auditors gathering every time he took his class.
Not only was the classroom full, but even the windows were crowded with people, crouching as if they were watching rare animals.
Fortunately, Xiang Nan was used to big scenes, so he didn't take it seriously. Anyone else would have been shocked.
Seeing that his popularity and influence were so high, Xiang Nan was naturally secretly happy. For him, the higher his reputation, the stronger his ability to protect himself.
If you become a famous scholar in China and the West, you will be popular wherever you go. Even if Japan invades in the future, they will not dare to do anything to him.
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"Down with the powers, down with the powers.
Eliminate the warlords Eliminate the warlords
we want to be the master
we want to be the master
Let’s sing together, let’s sing together”
On the Peking University campus, students gathered together to sing, with high spirits and high morale. Xiang Nan couldn't help but be attracted by them and stopped to listen.
"Teacher Jin, please come and sing together." When the students saw him, they all invited him.
Xiang Nan smiled and nodded, turned around, and submitted a new song to the "Peking University Daily" - "Men Should Be Strong."
"Facing the waves with pride
Hot blood is like the red sunlight
Courage is like iron and bone is like fine steel
A broad mind and a far-sighted vision
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Stand tall and hold your chest high, let's all be the pillars
Be a good man
Use me to heat up a hundred points
Shine a thousand points of light”
As soon as the new song came out, it immediately attracted attention.
However, there were still few people who could read music at that time, and singing it over and over always felt like it was not interesting enough.
"Teacher Jin, how do you sing "Men Should Be Strong"? Can you teach us how to sing it?" Later, the students approached Xiang Nan and asked.
"Okay." Xiang Nan coughed lightly and then started singing.
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"Men Should Strengthen themselves" is written based on the ancient music "General's Order".
The "General's Order" was created during the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than a thousand years. It has been passed down to this day, which shows that everyone's acceptance is still relatively high.
"Men Should Be Strong" was written by Huang Zhan. It is passionate, bold and uninhibited. It is full of high-spirited momentum and the spirit of self-improvement, so it became very popular after its release.
Now when Xiang Nan sings, it naturally makes his classmates happy.
"What a great song~"
"Teacher Jin, this song is so nice."
"Men should strive for self-improvement! That's so well said!"
"Use a hundred points of my heat to shine a thousand points of light. Isn't that what we are talking about?"
The classmates admired and wanted to learn from Xiang Nan.
Xiang Nan naturally didn't hesitate to teach him.
The reason why he wrote this song is that he knows that songs are easier to spread than dramas and poems.
After all, dramas and poems require a certain level of appreciation, and you must at least be literate to read them.
However, during the Republic of China, the literacy rate of the people was less than 10%, so even if the literate people read Xiang Nan's books, they only accounted for a small proportion.
Songs are different. Even if you are illiterate, you can learn them by listening to others singing. A good song can be sung much more widely than a drama or a poem.
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Sure enough, soon, the song "Men Should Improve themselves" spread from Peking University and was unanimously welcomed by young people.
In the early Republic of China, vernacular songs were generally not good to listen to.
First, the development time is not long enough. Vernacular songs began as Western school songs. Before that, Chinese people listened to operas, ditties, slang tunes, and folk songs.
Western-style schools were only established in the late Qing Dynasty, only ten or twenty years ago. In such a short period of time, vernacular poetry and prose have not yet become popular, let alone vernacular songs;
Second, the investment intensity is not enough. There were very few composers and lyricists at that time, so borrowing was basically prevalent. Just use the melody of Western music and then fill in your own words.
For example, "National Revolutionary Song" is adapted from the French children's song "Brother Mark"; Li Shutong's "Farewell" is adapted from the American song "Dream of Home and Mother"; "Three Major Disciplines and Eight Attentions" is adapted from "Kaiser Wilhelm's Military Training Song" "Adapted from...
Until 1927, "Drizzle" written and composed by Mr. Li Jinhui became popular all over the country. It was the first self-produced and self-sold pop song in China. Therefore, he was called the "Father of Chinese Pop Songs".
Therefore, there is no cinnabar, and red soil is more valuable. The song "Men Should Be Strong" has a nice melody and inspirational lyrics. Naturally, it quickly gained everyone's recognition and spread quickly.
Soon, even Hujiang, Yuezhou, Tianfu, Shengjing and other places sang this song, which made Xiang Nan famous and his talent was further recognized.
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Just as Xiang Nan's career was flourishing, in the second half of 2004, the political situation became increasingly uneasy.
The second Zhili-Fengtian War began. In this war, the Zhili clique warlords used 250,000 troops and the Fengcian warlords used 170,000 troops.
It seems that the Feng Faction has fewer troops, but in fact the Feng Faction has better equipment. It has imported a large number of advanced weapons and equipment from Germany and Japan, and its troops have also been reorganized, making their combat effectiveness even stronger.
The Zhili army is not only inferior in equipment, but also has many internal conflicts and conflicts with each other. Even at the critical moment of the war, several major generals actually launched political rebellion.
In this way, the Zhili clique was defeated and the Feng clique was victorious, thus taking control of Peiping and becoming the new talker.
The Second Zhili-Fengtian War lasted only more than fifty days in total, but the war had already taken a turn for the worse, and the situation had deteriorated far faster than anyone imagined.
Even Jin Quan didn't expect that the Zhili Clan, which had strong soldiers and horses and had 70,000 more soldiers than the Feng Clan, would lose so miserably and so quickly. It was simply unheard of.
"How could the situation deteriorate to this point?! It's simply ridiculous!" He said to Xiang Nan in a very depressed tone.
It had only been half a year since he resigned as prime minister, but he didn't expect that the country's affairs would be in such a state of decline.
"Father, look away." Xiang Nan advised, "In these years of turmoil, how can there be an eternal king? In troubled times, everyone wants to be the king and hegemony.
Just like during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, powerful vassals and towns proclaimed themselves kings one after another, so the saying remains, "The emperor would rather have the seed, and the one with strong soldiers and horses will listen to him." '
In addition, what the great powers need is a divided, internal strife, and chaotic China, and they will not allow any party to become dominant or have the opportunity to unify China.
Whichever side is stronger, weaken it. Whoever is weak, support them. The Zhili and Anhui cliques have dominated the world for nearly twelve years, and now it is the turn of the Feng clique to take charge. "
