On January 20, 2019 (December 15, 2018 in the lunar calendar), Ma Fuyao, the author of the lyrics "Across the Yalu River with majesty", passed away. Ma Fuyao, the author of Ma Fuyao's "Battle Hymn of the Chinese People's Volunteers" and the former director of the Political Department of a base of the Second Artillery Corps, passed away in Beijing on January 20, 2019, at the age of 92. According to an obituary posted in front of the Baoding Dry Rest Center of the Second Artillery Corps, according to Ma Fuyao's last wish, everything was kept simple, and no memorial service and funeral ceremony were held for the body. According to public information, Ma Fuyao was born in March 1927 and was a native of Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province. He enlisted in the army in February 1947 and was given the rank of captain in 1955. He was later promoted to the rank of major. In 1966, he was transferred to a base organ of the Second Artillery Corps. He successively served as the director of organization, the deputy political commissar of the logistics department, the deputy director of the political department, the director (deputy military position), and the secretary of the base discipline commission. He was awarded the Liberation Medal, the Victory Honor Medal, and the National Flag Medal of the Democratic Republic of Korea. After retiring in February 1987, he spent his old age in the Second Artillery's Baoding Rest. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Ma Fuyao served as the instructor of the 5th Company of the 26th Regiment of the 1st Division of the Volunteer Artillery. In the summer of 1950, in preparation for participating in the Anti-US War to Aid Korea, the At the resolution meeting held by the Fifth Company, the resolution letters of several classes were written "to defend peace, defend the motherland, and defend the hometown"; some soldiers wrote the sentence "majestic, high-spirited, cross the Yalu River" in their speeches; almost all speeches had the slogan "defeat the American ambition wolf". Instructor Ma Fuyao recorded the soldiers' heartfelt vows, and later revised and supplemented them into a resolution letter in the form of poetry. At the meeting of the whole regiment to go abroad to fight, Mafuyao spoke on behalf of the company. The resolution letter was warmly welcomed as an opening statement. After the meeting, Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Bojian interviewed Ma Fuyao and felt that the poem was well written, and proposed several amendments such as changing "crossing the Yalu River" to "crossing the Yalu River", which was then quoted in a battlefield newsletter published in the People's Daily on November 26, 1950. After the composer Zhou Weizhi saw the newsletter, he saw the poem in the People's Daily and composed the song that day. At the same time, he changed "Resistance to the United States and Aid Korea" to "Resistance to the United States and Aid Korea", and signed "Volunteer Warrior Words" with the title of the last sentence of the poem "Defeat the Ambition Wolf of American Imperialism". On November 30, the People's Daily and the bimonthly issue of the Current Affairs Manual in early December published this song, which was widely sung in the whole army and the whole country. In 1954, the national selection of outstanding songs, the song won the first prize, and the song was officially named "Battle Hymn of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army". After the Volunteer Army Battle Hymn manuscript was exhibited for the victory of the war, Ma Fuyao returned to his hometown in Northeast China many times, but he never mentioned himself and the story of the song. The parents in his hometown still do not know that he is the lyricist of "At that time, I didn't know how to write lyrics, nor did I write lyrics for the sake of singing," Ma Fuyao said of the lyrics. After the war song was sung, some people said that I became a celebrity and a lyricist, but I shook my head and denied it. I was just an ordinary soldier in the Volunteer Army and a political worker in the People's Army. "To this day, Ma Fuyao still insists:" Although I wrote the words, they reflected the feelings of the commanders and fighters of the army at that time, and also the feelings of the people of the whole country at that time. Even if I didn't write them, others would write them, not how talented I am. "Ma Fuyao told the soldiers that after the creation of the" Volunteer War Song "company of the People's Liberation Army in September 2016, all officers and soldiers wrote a letter to Ma Fuyao. The letter said: "Respect for Senior Ma, more than 60 years ago, your impassioned" Volunteer War Hymn "inspired the vast number of Volunteer Army officers and men to fight heroically. More than 60 years later, the melody of" Volunteer War Hymn "still resounds all over the country, inspiring generations of future generations to work hard. As the descendants of" Volunteer Army War Hymn "Company, we feel supreme honor because of" Volunteer Army War Hymn ". Although we have not experienced the era of war, in the thick history of the company, in the singing of "Volunteer War Hymn", we feel the impassioned and bloody fighting spirit of you and your comrades-in-arms back then, and feel the strong will of generations of war hymns and people who are high-spirited and not afraid of sacrifice. It is under the guidance and inspiration of this spirit that the company has achieved one result after another and created one glory after another. "Afterwards, Ma Fuyao replied to the comrades of the Fifth Company, saying:" The Fifth Company has a fine style tradition and a glorious fighting history. From the past to the present, the Fifth Company has always been good! The Fifth Company has always been at the top of the line! When I was as young as you, it was the Five Company that gave me the tempering and nourishment to grow up. The Five Company was an important starting point in my life. When the unit leaders came to visit, they mentioned the issue of the spirit of war songs and the culture of war songs. This concept is very good. War songs are the songs of the volunteer army, the songs of heroes, and used to be the strongest voice of that era. Today, with the great prosperity and development of culture, we should further explore the new ideological connotation of war songs. Let the culture of war songs nourish the healthy growth of our cadres and soldiers, let the spirit of war songs be further carried forward, and constantly inspire us to move forward bravely. " The Chinese People's Volunteer Army Battle Hymn "Fuyao Ci Zhou Weizhi Song" is majestic and heroic. Crossing the Yalu River to protect peace and defend the motherland is to protect the hometown. Good sons and daughters of China unite and resist the United States and aid Korea to defeat the ambition wolf of American imperialism