113 years ago today, February 14, 1912 (December 27, 1911, the lunar calendar), was the birthday of people's musician Nie Er. On February 14, 1912, people's musician Nie Er was born in Kunming. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the music industry has always regarded the birthday of people's musician Nie Er as February 15, and once designated this day as the China Music Festival. After careful check, Nie Er's birthday was February 14. This error was caused by the inaccurate calculations of the lunar calendar and Gregorian calendar. Nie Er is a musician familiar to the people of our country. From August to November 1932, he lived in Beijing (then called Peiping). Although this period of life was not long, it had an important influence on his ideological and artistic maturity. Nie Er's artistic life is diligent. When he came to Beijing, he brought his beloved violin with him. On the day he arrived in Beijing, he arranged accommodation, talked with friends, visited Zhongshan Park, and returned to his residence at 10 p.m., but he still did not forget to practice the piano. He wrote in his diary that day: I will return at 10 p.m. and play the piano." On the third day after arriving in Beijing, he started to make a music stand out of broken wooden boards, put it on top of the box, put the piano score, and started basic exercises. The cabin where Nie Er lived was dark and damp, with a musty smell and many mosquitoes. Especially when he was practicing the piano, the buzzing of the strings attracted many mosquitoes. Every day, there are more than a dozen mosquito bites on his face, neck and arms. Sometimes, he really had no choice but to practice the piano under the locust tree in the courtyard. In mid-September, Nie Er applied for the Music Department of Beiping Art College. In the "Party Justification Test Questions" in the exam paper, he wrote "The Responsibilities of Students Who Study Art During the National Disaster", and in the "Chinese Language Test Questions", he wrote "The Spiritual Redemption of Ideals", etc., and he "failed" in the first exam. This failure did not discourage Nie Er. He found Tonov, a foreign teacher in Beijing at that time, a famous violin professor. Tonov once taught Xian Xinghai and Liu Tianhua, but he charged a lot. Nie Er scrimped on food and clothing for the famous scholars. During his studies, he wrote down the teacher's requirements and his own experiences one by one in his notebook. But because he could not afford the high tuition fees, he only took four classes before dropping out. When bidding farewell, Tonov said to Nie Er regretfully: "You are a very smart child. You will play the violin in the future. Good. In addition to learning violin, Nie Er also attaches great importance to learning northern folk music in Beijing. He has listened to northern folk arts such as big drums, went to Tianqiao several times to listen to folk artists singing, and watched Fu Liancheng perform in his academic class. He fully absorbs the nutrition of knowledge like a sponge absorbs water and enriches his artistic accumulation. When Nie Er was in Beijing, it was around the first anniversary of the September 18th Incident, and the patriotic movement of students and the masses in Beijing also attracted him. Nie Er enthusiastically participated in the Progressive Literature and Art Movement in Beijing. On November 6, Nie Er bid farewell to Beijing and returned to Shanghai. In early 1933, he was introduced by Tian Han and Xia Yan and joined the Communist Party of China. In the same year, he began to write revolutionary songs. In two years, he wrote a number of excellent works such as "Graduation Song","Road Song", and "March of the Volunteers", making great contributions to the liberation of the Chinese nation and the development of China music. Nie Er's entire family. The person sitting on the ground on the left is Nie Er, who has just learned violin, and his friend Zhang Genghou and his friend Nie Er is with the actress at Shanghai Gaoqiao Beach. From left: The music left by Wang Renmei, Yu Zhile, Hu Jia Nie Er, and the smile is eternal Nie Er (first from left) and Zhang He and other friends celebrated the birthday of Nie Er, the people's musician in Sumida Park, Tokyo