Recently, a screenshot was circulated in a circle of friends, and the famous children’s song "A penny" was changed to "One dollar". Some people lament that time flies, and the past "penny" has become "one dollar"; Some people also questioned that it is not a spoof to adapt the classics in this way. You know, the composer once wrote and lived in Nanjing for many years. The Yangzi Evening News reporter interviewed the family of the original author.
Yangzi Evening News/Yangyan reporter Zhang Nan
A penny becomes a dollar.
Is it advisable to dissolve the classic culture?
For the familiar children’s song "A penny" was changed to "One dollar", many netizens talked about it. Some people think that there is nothing wrong with keeping pace with the times. Now "a dime" is hard to see. How can children understand "a penny"? Some netizens also said that this song conveys the moral character of collecting money, and the classic will be passed down forever, and it does not need to be adapted. Some people also ridiculed, do you need to change it to "pick up a QR code" in the future?
The Yangzi Evening News reporter learned from the music teacher of Nanjing Fangcaoyuan Primary School that this was not from the school textbook. In the memory of many teachers, the children’s song "A penny" has not appeared in textbooks for many years. On the Weibo, some netizens reported that this is a nursery rhyme learned by freshmen in a primary school in Taiyuan, Shanxi, but there is no official response yet.
Many netizens may not know that A penny was written by Pan Zhensheng, a national first-class composer and famous musician. Pan Zhensheng had a rough life, and his happy old age was spent in Nanjing. In 1991, Pan Zhensheng was transferred as a member and vice-chairman of Jiangsu Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and retired in 1995. The old couple are caring for each other, and the two stepdaughters are also very filial. On May 14th, 2009, he died of cerebral thrombosis in Nanjing at the age of 77.
Yangzi Evening News reporter interviewed the original author’s family, and his daughter Ma Li is a Nanyi teacher and a flute player. Mary saw this screenshot in a circle of friends, and many friends came to ask her if she knew that Penny had been changed.
"I have no idea. There is really no way to start this kind of thing. I don’t think a regular publishing house will do such a thing, "said Mary." This song by Dad is about the innocence of children, and it has nothing to do with the price. Although it was the product of that era, classics are classics, and we can still appreciate the efforts of the creators at that time when we sing today. Don’t you find it awkward to sing like this? I feel that such a spoof or ridicule should not be ignored. I understand that everyone is using this to make fun or ridicule and turn it into a paragraph. But now we sometimes don’t respect our classic culture and just dissolve it at will, but we lack the ability to be original. This is not worth promoting. "
In the interview, many music creators have expressed such views, which have influenced the classics of several generations and should not be changed. This is also a kind of respect for cultural traditions.
Do you know that?/You know what?
Donate the manuscript of "A penny", "Not a penny"
"I found a penny on the side of the road and gave it to the policeman’s uncle … …” "Where is spring? Where is spring?" and other songs that have accompanied hundreds of millions of children to grow up are all written by Pan Zhensheng. He is known as the contemporary "King of Children’s Songs", and a large number of children’s songs created by him have been published and broadcasted in newspapers and radio stations all over the country. Among them, "A penny" and "Where is spring" have become "world famous songs" in the world children’s music scene. He has won the "Golden Record Award" and other heavyweight awards from Chinese record companies, and has enjoyed special allowances from the State Council since 1992.
Mary recalled the story of "A penny" and said that because this song was so famous, Pan Zhensheng had the nickname "Grandpa a penny". At that time, in response to Chairman Mao’s call to learn from Comrade Lei Feng, the whole country was learning from Lei Feng. In 1965, a female editor of china national radio’s "Little Horn" program group wrote to Pan Zhensheng and asked him to write a song praising "good boy". Pan Zhensheng was immersed in the memories of the past when he was a music teacher after receiving the invitation letter. At that time, he worked as a brigade counselor in a primary school in Shanghai. There was a pencil box on his desk, which was full of coins that the children had found and handed in. The children’s behavior of picking up money often touched his heartstrings. Although it is a penny or two, it reflects the beautiful and pure childlike innocence of children. At that time, the children lined up to go home, and the traffic police kept traffic order outside the school. The children often walked far out of the school gate and waved back to the traffic police and shouted, "Goodbye, uncle! Goodbye, uncle! "
Pan Zhensheng then combined these two scenes, and the melody of Zizhu tune turned into a lively melody with urban color, and created the song "A penny". Once the children’s song "A penny" was played in china national radio, it was like plugging in flying wings and quickly flying to the north and south of the river.
Later, the Shanghai Public Security Museum was established, and Pan Zhensheng was asked for the draft letter and the score of "A penny". The other party offered a purchase price of 200,000 yuan. As a result, Pan Zhensheng said: "The child gave a penny to the police uncle. Of course, I have to give this manuscript to the police uncle, and I don’t want a penny!" Pan Zhensheng said to Sun, a police officer of Shanghai Public Security Bureau who is planning to build a public security museum, "Don’t come to Nanjing, I’ll bring it to you.". Later, it was appraised by China Cultural Relics Bureau, and its manuscript and music score were rated as "first-class cultural relics of modern revolution".
Keep a childlike innocence
Create all one’s life
Pan Zhensheng was born in Shanghai, and he entered the music hall through hard self-study. Because of his poor family, he was forced to drop out of school after only half a year in junior high school and became an apprentice in the printing factory. After joining the army, he became more fascinated with music. After demobilization, he was assigned to a primary school in Shanghai and became a music teacher. In addition to teaching at school, he works as an amateur editor in the Literature and Art Department of Shanghai Radio Station on Sundays. At that time, popular children’s songs such as "We Came to the Garden" and "Little Duckling" spread all over Shanghai Beach. Later, Pan Zhensheng went to Ningxia People’s Broadcasting Station, and he used his spare time to write songs for the radio, free of charge. A penny was born in Ningxia.
Mary told reporters that she has been writing children’s songs all her life, but when she sees that children have no songs to sing, every time she sees children singing adult songs in some singing competitions, Pan Zhensheng feels worried. In the past, there were no music textbooks for primary and secondary school students, and there were few songs suitable for children to sing. He decided to write his own textbooks and songs. He takes it as his mission to guide children to grow up healthily and shape a beautiful mind.
After he was transferred to the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles and retired, Pan Zhensheng had more time to create. The old man’s workbench was occupied by the recording equipment he spent all his savings to buy. Pan Lao, who had always pursued fashion, was still learning to make CDs with a group of young people in his later years and moved the recording studio to his home. "He was not ashamed to ask young people questions, took notes carefully, and made a user guide himself." Online songs such as "Mice Love Rice" were also burned into his teaching materials by Pan Lao.
In the eyes of his family, Pan Lao still maintains a childlike innocence. Mary still remembers, "The old man is not behind the times, and he can accept some fashionable things. He usually plays games such as Lianliankan and Paolong at home, because he can’t compete with my mother, and he is anxious to get angry. He doesn’t sleep at night and uses his PDA ‘ Practice hard ’ 。”
Apart from the well-known children’s songs such as Duckling, Penny, Good Mother, Where is Spring, Motherland, We Love You, etc., Pan Zhensheng continued to create in this century, and in his later years, he went to various places to collect folk songs, and accumulated works such as New Children’s Songs of 56 Nationalities in four years.