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Qiao Yu is a songwriter who penned timeless classics that 【小题1】 (sing) from generation to generation in China for decades. He wrote more than 1,100 lyrics all his life, many of 【小题2】 are being remembered even today.
Qiao is said to have started his 【小题3】 (enthusiastic) with words from the early age of 4. He could also recite ancient poems from the Tang and Song dynasties. But it wasn’t 【小题4】 his late teens that he penned his first own poem.
Qiao rose to fame in 1955 after writing “Let’s Pull on Our Oars (桨)” known to most Chinese children. “Our boat is 【小题5】 (gentle) drifting on the lake/ A cool breeze is rustling for our sake/ Our homework has been well done/ Let’s heartily have a lot of fun,” says the song.
But Qiao’s greatest hit came in 1956, 【小题6】 “My Motherland” becoming a patriotic tune in the movie Battle on Shangganling Mountain. “A great river 【小题7】 (flow), its waves are wide/ Wind blows the scent of flowers to both shores/ My family lives on the shore/ I am used to hearing the punters’(艄公) call/And seeing the white sails on the boats,” says the start of the song.
Genius as these lines now are, 【小题8】 movie director at first asked Qiao to clearly spell out the “great river” as the Yangtze itself. “However,” Qiao said, “the ‘great river’ 【小题9】 (refer) to in the lines is always there in front of your home, and the stories and memories along the river make up 【小题10】 it is to make you feel close to your hometown.”
