March of the Volunteers is the national anthem of the People's Republic of China. Its lyrics were written in 1934 by the playwright and poet Tian Han, and the music was composed in 1935 by Nie Er for the film Children of Troubled Times, which was set during the Japanese invasion. The song called on people to resist and became a rallying cry of the war against Japan. It was chosen as the provisional national anthem in 1949, when the People's Republic was founded. During the Cultural Revolution Tian Han was persecuted and the words were banned, and in 1978 new lyrics were used, but the original text was restored in 1982, and the anthem was written into the constitution in 2004.
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