5 immortal songs about 'Dien Bien Phu Victory'

(Baonghean.vn) - The songs born during the Dien Bien Phu campaign encouraged our army and people to achieve a victory that "resounded throughout the five continents and shook the world".

1. Through the Northwest - Musician Nguyen Thanh

Musician Nguyen Thanh wrote the song “Qua mien Tay Bac” before the Dien Bien Phu campaign. The song, full of poetry and reality, expressed the passionate patriotism of our soldiers. Nguyen Thanh composed “Qua mien Tay Bac” at the top of Khau Vac Pass, over 2,000 meters high, which is the gateway to Dien Bien Phu.

To create such a work, the author had to personally travel through the Northwest three times. In the song “Passing the Northwest”, the author recorded his warm feelings and sincere heart, and affection for the Northwest.

2. Long March - Musician Do Nhuan

Musician Do Nhuan with his typical songs “Hanh quan xa”, “Trinh doi Him Lam”, “Giai phong Dien Bien”… truly reflected the just and heroic war of our people. If “Hanh quan xa” is a gentle, concise, easy-to-understand, sincere encouragement for officers and soldiers, helping them overcome difficult and arduous marches, then “Trinh doi Him Lam” is a premonition of an approaching victory of our army.

In “Long March” are words of encouragement and consolation with very simple lyrics: “Long marches are full of hardships. Carrying heavy burdens on our shoulders, we sweat… Hatred is the oppression of the colonialists. There is no enemy in our lives, so we just keep going…”.

3. On Him Lam Hill - Musician Do Nhuan

During the Dien Bien campaign, the Him Lam battle was our first victory. At that time, Do Nhuan, along with Tran Ngoc Xuong and Nguyen Van Tien, were in the composition team present there. Standing on the edge of the trench, they played and sang to cheer on the soldiers marching below. In the army, a soldier told the musicians: "Try to compose more, when we return we will have gifts for the artists."

The soldier who said that never returned because he was the martyr Phan Dinh Giot who used his body to fill the loophole in the Him Lam battle. Only later did Do Nhuan know clearly. And the song "On Him Lam Hill" was composed by him right on the battlefield, amidst the chaos of broken vehicles and artillery in the acrid smell of bullets, bombs and enemy corpses: "Yesterday, in the Dien Bien battle, the trenches launched an attack on Him Lam hill, we advanced, broke through with our swords and attacked...".

4. Firecracker Song - Musician Hoang Van

An unforgettable image in the Dien Bien Phu battle is the image of “Pulling the cannon in - pulling the cannon out”. Musician Hoang Van, author of the song “Ho keo phao” recounted: Every night, following the call “do ta nao, hai ba nao, the sound of bamboo clappers knocking knocking” as a signal under the moonlight, hundreds of soldiers wearing garrison uniforms and bamboo hats bowed low, spread their legs, their strong biceps clinging to ropes, rattan ropes, and reed ropes to pull the cannon…

All those images and sounds created a majestic picture, a bustling atmosphere filled with determination that resounded throughout the mountains and forests of Dien Bien. “Ho keo phao” was written by the musician right at the front.

5. Liberation of Dien Bien - Musician Do Nhuan

The origin of “Liberating Dien Bien” was recorded by musician Do Nhuan in his memoir “Sounds of Life” as follows: “On May 7, 1954, we were digging and spreading rocks, when in the afternoon, a comrade from the front rode his bicycle past, shouting loudly: “The enemy has surrendered in Muong Thanh! Liberating Dien Bien!”. The entire art troupe stopped digging, hugged each other and danced without musical accompaniment… I played and sang again. That night, I sat writing by the fire in the stilt house, all night and all day. I played the violin, my mouth was full, afraid of disturbing the comrades and keeping them awake. There were some cassava roots roasted in the charcoal stove to nourish me for the night, I wrote and peeled the cassava to eat.”

The song “Liberate Dien Bien” was born from that. At the end of the song, the lyrics suddenly soar with great heroism: “The mountains and rivers are ablaze/Our country is shining/Dien Bien fields, the victory flag flutters in the sky”.

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