The birth of the music of the constitutional oath ceremony played by the PLA Military Orchestra

  The PLA Military Orchestra played the swearing-in ceremony in the Great Hall of the People. Photo by Sun Xiaomeng

  This is the first time since the founding of the Republic that a grand constitutional oath ceremony was held at the National People’s Congress. The people of the whole country witnessed this solemn and sacred process through television cameras.

  As part of the swearing-in ceremony of the national leaders’ constitution, the two pieces of music, the swearing-in ceremony song and the chairman’s horn, were specially created by the PLA Military Orchestra and have not been played in public before.

  "Now hold the constitutional oath ceremony of the first meeting of the 13th National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China!" At 10: 50 am on March 17th, a solemn and powerful bugle sounded at the Great Hall of the People. With the music played by the Military Orchestra of China People’s Liberation Army, the swearing-in ceremony of the Constitution kicked off. The ceremonial soldiers marched forward, escorting the Constitution of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and placing it on the oath platform.

  接着,新当选的国家主席、中央军委主席习近平从主席团座席起身走向宣誓台时,又一段铿锵激昂的号角奏响,将整个宪法宣誓仪式烘托得更加神圣与庄严。

  创 作

  “今年2月初,全国人大交给我们一项任务——为宪法宣誓仪式创作一首乐曲。”解放军军乐团副团长张海峰告诉记者。

  这样的创作,看似开放自由,实则限制颇多,音乐的时长、风格、元素等都需要考虑仪式的实际情况。

  军乐团经过研究,首先将音乐形式确定为号角。“号角,有昭示的含义。”在宪法宣誓仪式中,宣誓人庄重地诵读誓词是整个仪式最重要最核心的部分。在此之前演奏号角,昭示神圣的一刻即将来临,最为合适。

  “第一,选用国歌作为音乐素材;第二,最后以长音收尾;第三,乐曲的配器增加长号。”代表军乐团在人民大会堂里工作了34年的张海峰根据自己的经验给创作者提出建议。

  在这样重要的场合上,使用的音乐元素需要慎重考虑,国歌无疑非常合适——它是国家的象征,足够庄重,仪式感强。

  乐曲以长音结尾,则蕴含微调的妙处。“举行宪法宣誓仪式时,宣誓人既可能是一位领导人,也可能是数位领导人,走到宣誓台前的脚步有快有慢。以长音收尾,便于根据实际情况对尾音做出调整。”张副团长说。

  至于乐器的选用,“通常说来,号角用小号作为主要乐器。但增加长号后,声部可以由3个变为8个。”短短20秒的乐曲才能够表现足够丰富的内涵。

  最终,创作了“9·3”阅兵号角、2018年元旦天安门升旗号角等作品的解放军军乐团创作室副主任郭思达完成了作曲任务。作品交回人大审定后,获得通过。军乐团又收到建议,再创作一首。

  “新的曲子可以使用国际歌作为素材,并增加乐器小军鼓。”张海峰从党代会闭幕式上演奏的国际歌得到灵感。

  最终,第一首曲子被选作宣誓仪式曲,第二首曲子由于打击乐的加入,节奏感强,更加激昂奋发、铿锵有力,成为主席出场号角。

  准 备

  解放军军乐团此次演奏宣誓仪式曲和主席出场号角时,在形式上做出了特别安排——通常只用在室外举行的国家典礼上的礼号,首次走进了人民大会堂。八面号旗挂在微微上扬的号管上,给人以耳目一新的感觉,仪式感更强,烘托典礼的隆重。

  In order to ensure that there are no mistakes in the performance at the constitutional oath ceremony, "I went to the General Assembly Hall to rehearse for five times." As the conductor of live performance at the venue, Zhang Haifeng said.

  However, the first rehearsal found problems. Generally, when a band plays, a certain distance will be left between the conductor and the musician, so that the musician can observe the conductor’s movements. However, limited by the space in the Great Hall of the People, there is only one row of seats between the conductor and the first row of musicians, and the stations are almost parallel. In the past, the band could make trombone players stand back by adjusting their formation. But this time, there are only eight trumpeters, eight trombones and two military drummers. In this way, the distance between the trombone player and the conductor is too close, and the line of sight is just blocked by the horn of the trombone, and the conductor’s action is completely invisible.

  In order to solve this problem, the military orchestra asked the musical instrument support personnel who should have been sitting in the back row to leave to make room, and the musicians moved back two rows as a whole.

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  Eighteen performers of the PLA Military Orchestra have been carefully selected from the orchestra and participated in many important performance activities. They are of excellent quality and confident in their performances.

  However, because of the many "firsts" of activities, there is no experience to refer to, and I am still nervous. "The procedures for swearing-in activities need to be remembered in particular." For example, before president and the chairman of the Central Military Commission take the oath, the host of the conference will first announce the ceremony, and then broadcast it once by the live broadcast host of the conference. At this time, the performance will start; Before the vice chairman and members of the Central Military Commission take the oath collectively, the host of the live broadcast will increase the password of "Please take the oath in place".

  Before the performance, although Zhang Haifeng had memorized the procedure, his heart was still tense. The same is true for musicians. "At that time, some trumpeters were already inhaling and ready to play, but I couldn’t beat until the password was finished." Zhang Haifeng said, "All the comrades in the regiment are sweating for me."

  At the end of the performance, Zhang Haifeng felt proud and lucky. Proud, he participated in such groundbreaking activities on such a solemn and sacred occasion as a live conductor on behalf of the military orchestra. Fortunately, he caught up with the new era. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the frequency of military orchestras participating in major foreign affairs activities has become higher and higher, which has made him personally feel that the international status of the motherland is constantly improving and the country’s development is getting better and better.

  Tips and representative works

  The Military Orchestra of China People’s Liberation Army belongs to the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission. Formerly known as the North China Military Region Military Band established in January 1948. In 1949, he participated in the founding ceremony in New China as the main band and played National Anthem of the People’s Republic of China for the first time. It was formally expanded and established in 1952.

  Over the years, the Military Orchestra has composed and performed more than 2,000 wind music works in different forms, and recorded and distributed hundreds of wind music tapes, records, music scores and monographs. Representative works include: Welcome March (Wei Qun), Farewell March (Zheng Lu), Flowers Song (Yan Xiao ‘ou), Athletes March (Jia Shuang), Horn of Handover Ceremony of Hong Kong and Macao (Wang Hesheng), Divided March (Luo Lang) and so on. (Reporter Shen Zhilin)

Travel notes of Baquan gorge in spring

  At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, the sun is just right and the breeze is blowing. At this time of spring, both body and mind want to leave the city where they have lived for too long, go out for a walk, put their bodies between the green mountains and green waters, feel the breath of nature in spring and let the long-lost freedom fill their hearts.

  People who have been listening to outdoor travel for a long time describe the beauty of Baquan Gorge in Shanxi Taihang Grand Canyon in 5A scenic spot: looking up at Zhangjiajie and looking down at Jiuzhaigou. People who have been there all feel magnificent landforms and beautiful scenery.

  I made an appointment with three friends, made a good travel strategy in advance, and we followed the guide into the canyon early in the morning. The entrance of the scenic spot is also the entrance of the canyon. The entrance of the scenic spot is tall and simple, with three characters of "Baquan Gorge" capitalized on the doorplate, which looks like a capital "eight". It stands among the mountains and warmly welcomes tourists here with open arms. The surrounding mountains are towering into the sky, and the mountain breeze is blowing slowly. The peaks are looming and overlapping like a fairyland.

  The origin of the name "Baquan Gorge" is because there are eight springs in the Qiaohou ravine of Taihang Mountain Grand Canyon, which has been called "Eight Rivers" by the people since ancient times. In addition, there are two springs in the middle of the canyon with eight springs, and the number of three springs is eight, so the scenic spot here is named "Baquan Gorge".

  After entering the door, it is a lake formed by running water on the mountain, and the water surface is calm. At the end of the lake, take an electric sightseeing bus and drive up the Panshan Highway. After passing through the dreamy Baquan Shaanxi Tunnel with a length of 760m, we arrive at Gaoshan Pinghu Lake surrounded by mountains. The water surface is green and quiet, and a river is sandwiched between cliffs. It is said that the water depth is more than 60m, with a total length of 2km. Take a cruise on the canyon river and look up at the cliffs and straight walls on both sides, with strange peaks and rocks. The ship shuttled through the precipice, only a line of sky was seen overhead, and the front was curved and continuous, like a magnificent picture scroll slowly opened.

  In the scenic spot, the spring water gurgles all the year round, fountains and waterfalls fall straight to the bottom of the valley, and enter Baquan Gorge. The magnificent broken valley cliffs with a cutting depth of nearly 1,000 meters, countless natural fountains and waterfalls like silver, form a unique landscape charm of steep cliff Lishui, and the rocks are lifelike, which constitutes a natural wonder of "seeing from the ground, swimming in the water, watching from the sky and walking in the clouds".

  After the ship arrived at the dock, we walked among the rocks along the wooden plank road. The plank road built on the cliffs caused the least damage to the natural landscape and allowed people to have a panoramic view of the beauty up and down. On one side is a straight cliff, and on the other side is the river running at the bottom of the valley. Looking up along the precipice, the stone wet by the rain is no longer dusty, but presents colorful colors. Looking up again, among the gradually closed peaks, leaves and branches are printed in the sky. This cliff is also covered with plants, trees, shrubs, weeds and mosses are squeezed out in the crevices, and the leaves are shiny and shiny after being washed by the rain, so we can’t help but sigh the power of life. People are sandwiched between cliffs, with a blue sky above their heads, green trees and strange stones in front of them, and mountains as far as the eye can see. Water is gurgling from their feet, as if they were in a paradise.

  We went upstream to the ropeway station, made a ropeway to enjoy the beautiful scenery, and the mountains stacked on top of each other looked like pots from a distance, which is also the origin of Huguan County’s name.

  Coming out of the ropeway, I went down the road and came to a very spectacular natural wonder: Beitianmen. It is a natural hollowing out of the mountain, with a height of 22 meters and a span of 25 meters, which is transparent from north to south, forming a huge arched doorway. Amazing and amazing nature "uncanny workmanship".

  After a short rest, we will proceed from Beitianmen, which is the most difficult journey in the whole trip of Baquan Gorge. It’s a veritable ladder. The stone steps are steep and almost vertical, clinging to the precipice. After going straight up and down, you will reach the viewing platform of the "City of the Sky". It is a vertical panoramic transparent viewing ladder directly embedded in the cliff. The top floor is a glass viewing platform with a vertical height of 208 meters, and the whole operation takes only one minute. It is divided into three layers, which challenges people’s courage the most. On the bottom layer, you can see the cliffs and canyons at the foot, and the cliff next to it seems to be within reach. The third floor is a sightseeing platform, which stretches out eight meters, overlooking the towering peaks around and feeling relaxed and happy when climbing high and looking far.

  After enjoying the scenery, take the sightseeing elevator down, the scenery changes from far to near, with the decrease of height. In less than one minute, we have reached the foot of the mountain, and the journey is close to the end. The colorful scenery, air, rocks, mountains, green leaves and springs are deeply imprinted in our minds. In Baquanxia Scenic Area, you can not only feel the gift of nature, but also deeply understand the folk culture of Taihang area, which really makes people linger.

On the way to the international checkers competition, the Russian flag was suddenly stunned by the players who withdrew from Russia.

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  Overseas network April 28 thRussian "Life" news network reported on the 27th that Tamara Tanskuzina, a famous Russian international checkers player, recently represented Russia in the international checkers championship held in Poland. However, during the competition, there was a shocking scene: the staff suddenly removed the items related to the Russian national symbol from the table. Tamara was a little surprised and looked around, then calmed down and continued the competition.

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  On the day of the competition, Tanskuzina and Polish player Natalya Sadovska competed for the award of the best chess player in the world. During the competition, the organizer’s staff suddenly took away the Russian flag on the table and tore off the Russian tricolor flag label on the table.

  The staff’s move surprised Russian contestants. Tamara looked around in surprise, then at the table, where the Russian flag was placed a few seconds ago. But Tamara soon calmed down and continued to concentrate on the game.

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  The organizer later explained that during the competition, the staff were reminded that court of arbitration for sports had previously stipulated that Russia was forbidden to use the Russian flag and national anthem in large-scale international competitions. In view of the fact that the game has already started, the staff of the World International Checkers Federation had to directly withdraw the items related to the Russian national symbol from the table. In addition, the staff explained that this was done because they might be sanctioned for this matter. In the end, the Russian player Tanskuzhina was defeated.

  On December 17, 2020, court of arbitration for sports found that the Russian Anti-Doping Center violated the rules, and announced that Russian athletes could not represent their country in major international sports events including the Tokyo Olympic Games and the world championships of various events until December 16, 2022, but only participated in a neutral capacity, and were not allowed to use the Russian flag and national anthem. (Overseas Network/Zhang Qi Internship Compilation/Cheng Xiao)

The love of fat girls also has spring. The New Blind Date Conference teaches you how to regain your confidence.

Everyone deserves love, and it has nothing to do with being tall or thin. I know all the reasons. When it comes to dating and choosing a spouse, the fat girl always passes by fate, and it seems to be over before it starts. In Jiangsu Satellite TV’s "New Blind Date Conference" program, Tang Wenjun is a typical representative of such a fat girl. She has a successful career. She takes the initiative, but she always comes back disappointed. Finally, in last week’s program, the appearance of Xu Tianqi broke people’s secular prejudice and made a fat girl like Tang Wenjun have the spring of love.
Fat girls are overweight in love, too? Tang Wenjun was moved to hold hands and shed tears on the stage.
In Tang Wenjun’s words, he and the male guest Xu Tianqi are really a high-dimensional fit. In the program, Xu Tianqi said that he wants a close love, and the ideal partner should have his own career, and he should make achievements and have a say in his work. And Tang Wenjun, like Xu Tianqi, has been in business for many years, falling off the bottom of failure and enjoying the joy of success. As the founder of the media company, Tang Wenjun has stood at a height that can rival Xu Tianqi.
On the body problem that Tang Wenjun is most concerned about, Xu Tianqi answered like this. "I think appearance is a condition below personality and career, so I don’t really care about the appearance and figure of the other half." As soon as this statement came out, Tang Wenjun finally showed a smile that he had not seen for a long time on the stage.
After Tang Wenjun and Xu Tianqi succeeded in holding hands, the girlfriends sitting in the seats of relatives and friends were moved to tears. "In the world of fat people, I always look forward to love, and it has a sad color. Therefore, the two of them together also inspired me and made me look forward to the blank feelings. As long as it is good enough, sincere enough, and always yearning for love, the person who belongs to you will definitely be on the road. "
This touching expression has also injected a shot in the arm into many chubby girls in front of the TV. "There will always be people who don’t mind your height, appearance and so on, but pay more attention to your inner world, so be sure to refuel the duck!" "Be a sister who braves the wind and waves. We are not afraid of gossip and secular prejudice. We will be happy!" The audience said in succession.
Should parents keep their distance after marriage? The mode of family getting along is hotly debated.
In addition to Tang Wenjun’s romantic hand-in-hand, last week’s "New Blind Date Conference" once again triggered a big discussion among the audience about marriage and family. In the program, male guest Lu Ye put forward a rather "novel" view. He believes that marriage does not make two families become one family, but changes from two families to three families. "I think parents should keep a certain distance after marriage." Lu Ye’s ideal family mode is that three small families respect each other, they will not accept living with their parents, and the elderly on both sides should not interfere too much in their children’s lives.
After the program was broadcast, the sense of distance between in-laws became the focus of audience’s attention. Some viewers agree with Lu Ye’s idea that it is an eternal truth that distance produces beauty. "Originally, there were enough contradictions between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Let both parents get involved recently, and it will only be messy." "One thousand mother and mother-in-law make a little unhappy, this caught in the middle of the couple? So it’s better not to get too close. " However, some viewers believe that friction between people is inevitable, but family can overcome everything. "Four old people can travel together and take care of their children together, which is another kind of happiness." "If the four old people get along well, it will greatly reduce the burden on young people. I think Bailey is harmless."
Do you want to reason with your girlfriend? The secret of the attribute of "straight man"
On the stage of the "New Blind Date Conference", there have been many masters of science and engineering who are immersed in their own small world, but they are more or less at a loss in love. In last week’s program, Zhang Zhichao, a 27-year-old Nanjing guy, said without hesitation, "Love is a subject that I will never delve into."
From Zhang Zhichao’s own description, you will find that he is a typical "straight man": he doesn’t like taking photos, traveling or following dramas, and his biggest hobbies are playing ball games and reading books. In the eyes of the audience, the most obvious label of Zhang Zhichao’s straight male attribute is that he wants to find a reasonable girlfriend. In his view, love can be right or wrong, but there is something in itself. "We should analyze the problems first, so as to avoid and summarize them in the future." Zhang Zhichao seems to be more obsessed with solving problems than comforting his girlfriend.
This view has also triggered a heated discussion among female compatriots in front of the TV. "The starting point is good, but my girlfriend is angry, and it is useless to reason." "Didn’t he hear a word? That is never to reason with girls. In the end, the truth is clear, and the girlfriend can be gone! " The audience joked.
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Create another ChatGPT? The founder of OpenAI said to open the interface and create killer applications.

OpenAI also wants to build another "killer" application similar to ChatGPT.

On March 9th, local time, Reuters reported that Sam Altman, founder and CEO of OpenAI, said at the Morgan Stanley conference that the company would focus on building a platform, opening API interfaces to developers and creating "killer apps" like ChatGPT.

At present, the popularity of ChatGPT is high. Internet analyst Similarweb said that since its launch in November last year, the popularity of ChatGPT has soared, and the number of visits to the website has increased from 616 million in January this year to over 1 billion now.

With the rising popularity, the company not only launched the paid service ChatGPT Plus to individual users, but also began to seek cooperation with enterprises. Altman said that OpenAI is working with corporate customers to train models in specific areas in order to effectively reduce the number of errors in AI (Artificial Intelligence) systems.

He mentioned that companies working with OpenAI can use the company’s data and make copies of models to reduce data security problems. For example, he said that Bain & Company, a management consulting company, cooperated with OpenAI to provide personalized advertising copy and images for companies such as Coca-Cola by using its ChatGPT and DALL-E platforms.

In addition, Altman added that individual users should have more control over the way AI (Artificial Intelligence) works. The company said last month that it was upgrading the chat bot to allow users to customize it to solve the error of artificial intelligence. He said, "We will soon introduce more things to give users more control over the system so that it can act in different ways."

Altman also admitted that the accuracy of the current AI system cannot reach 100%, but he predicted that applications such as AI doctors and AI lawyers would soon appear on mobile phones.

In fact, OpenAI announced on March 1st that it had introduced API and allowed any enterprise to build ChatGPT technology in their own applications, websites, products and services. Snap, Quizlet, Instacart and Shopify were early adopters of ChatGPT API.

According to public information, API is an application programming interface, which can realize the communication between computer software. Through API interface, developers can develop applications without accessing source code or understanding the details of internal working mechanism. Amazon’s official website gives an example-the software system of the Meteorological Bureau includes daily weather data, and the weather application on the user’s mobile phone "talks" with the system through the API, and displays the latest weather information every day on the mobile phone.

Previously, Greg Brockman, president and chairman of OpenAI, said that ChatGPT API is supported by GPT-3.5-turbo, a natural language model, in which "turbo" represents an optimized version of GPT-3.5, with faster response speed. This model adopts homologous technology with the popular ChatGPT, which is based on the enhanced version of GPT-3.

TechCrunch, an American technology media, said that the initial motivation of OpenAI to develop GPT-3.5-turbo may be to reduce the computing cost of ChatGPT. Altman once said on Twitter that the cost of ChatGPT’s dialogue with users is "amazing", and each conversation needs to cost a few cents or more.

It is worth noting that a new generation of natural language processing model GPT-4 will be launched next week. On March 9, local time, Andreas Braun, chief technology officer of Microsoft Germany, mentioned in an AI (Artificial Intelligence) activity, "We will launch GPT-4 next week, which will be a multimodal models that can provide completely different possibilities, such as supporting video."

In addition, on March 16th, Microsoft will hold an online activity of "Artificial Intelligence Leading Future Work" to showcase Microsoft’s latest AI technology and discuss the application and development of artificial intelligence in work scenarios.