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Young, educated people who willingly sacrificed so much to help defend the country at crucial research base are acknowledged, Cheng Yuezhu reports.
It was a joke, a bit of horseplay, literally, that became a much-loved song. In 1939, when songwriter Wang Luobin was with other crew members on a set in the Jinyintan Grassland in Northwest China's Qinghai province, he got to know a Tibetan girl who had a part in the film. One day Wang wanted to play a joke on her and whipped the horse she was riding. The horse bolted and she nearly fell off. The girl later got her own back on him. The experience, along with the beautiful scenery, became an inspiration for Wang to create his later famous work At A Faraway Place based on a folk song of the...
THE Wharfedale Blues Festival returns this month after an absence of over two years due to the pandemic.
“There were many themes of overcoming personal obstacles, which is natural during a pandemic."