王莘同志的《歌唱祖国》是一首划时代的经典歌曲,从它诞生至今已有56年,但至今仍受到全中国人民和全世界华人的热爱。我这里只是想从我们第一次演唱这首歌到它迅速在全国流传的过程中,讲一点我的亲身经历和感受:那是在1950年10月的一天,当时我是刚参加革命2年的小青年,在天津市音乐工作团担任演唱队副队长。江苏无锡籍的王莘是我们团长,他找到我说:“我写了一首歌你们找几个人试唱一下,听听效果。”我找来10几位合唱队员分头抄好歌谱,王莘同志就指挥我们唱了起来,刚刚唱了一遍大家就喊起来:“太好了!”当时我们都是刚参加革命的热血青年,我们都亲身经 Comrade Wang Xin’s “Singing the Motherland” is a classic epoch-making song. It has been 56 years since its birth, but is still loved by all Chinese and overseas Chinese all over the world. I just want to tell you my personal experience and feelings from the time when we first sang this song to its rapid spread throughout the country: it was on October 1950, when I was just attending the revolution for 2 years Of young people, music team in Tianjin as vice captain of the singing team. Wang Xin, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, was our head and he found me and said, “I wrote you a song and asked a few people to try and sing.” I asked 10 chorus members to copy the song sheet separately Comrade Xin commanded us to sing it and just sang it again. Everyone shouted: “Great!” At that time, we were just passionate young people who took part in the revolution. We all personally