On this day 61 years ago, on October 2, 1964 (August 27, 1964 in the lunar calendar), the music and dance epic "The East is Red" was premiered in Beijing. On October 2, 1964, a grand literary and artistic celebration party was held in the capital Beijing, and a large-scale music and dance epic "The East is Red" was performed. Party and state leaders such as Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Dong Biwu, Peng Zhen, He Long, etc. attended the party and watched the performance. "The East is Red" is a large-scale song and dance attended by 3,000 people. It takes the revolutionary historical songs that best reflect the spirit of the times in various stages of Chinese revolutionary history as the basic theme of each music in the form of singing and dancing that the Chinese people love. It vividly depicts the glorious course of the revolutionary struggle and construction of the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and Chairperson Mao Zedong for more than 40 years. This revolutionary epic is a historical epitome of the Chinese people's pursuit of liberation and a true portrayal of the people of all ethnic groups gaining a new life under the leadership of Chairperson Mao Zedong. The composition is magnificent and magnificent, and new major achievements have been made in the revolutionization, nationalization and mass transformation of song and dance art.