The composer of Flowers in May is Yan Shushi. When he was a student, Yan Shushi often participated in performances promoting anti-Japanese thoughts, so he was persecuted by the enemy, fled to Shanhaiguan, moved to Beijing, and worked as a math teacher in Beijing No.26 Middle School (Beijing Huiwen).

1935, William. J published a poem in the newspaper. Yan Shushi was infected by this poem and remembered the scene when he participated in the student movement: the enemy stopped his classmates with bayonets, and many people paid the price of blood, but everyone was still in high spirits. ...

Excited, he set this poem to music, which later became an inspiring "battlefield" song "Flowers in May".

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"Mayflower" was originally a prelude to a one-act drama "Ayin Girl" produced by Wuhan. /kloc-in the summer of 0/936, when Northeastern University rehearsed "Ayin Girl", because there were only lyrics on the script and no soundtrack, Yan Shushi, the teacher of the school, composed the music.

After composing this song, it was widely appreciated and soon spread all over the country, and was widely sung in the anti-Japanese and national salvation singing movement. 1959 Composer Qu Xixian chose Flowers in May as the episode of the feature film Song of Youth.