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"'''The East Is Red'''" ({{zh-cp|c=东方红|p=Dōngfāng Hóng}}) is a [[song]] that was the ''[[de facto]]'' [[anthem]] of the [[People's Republic of China]] during the [[Cultural Revolution]] in the [[1960s]]. The lyrics of the song were attributed to, [[Li Youyuan]], a farmer from northern [[Shaanxi]], and the melody was from a local folk song. He allegedly got his inspiration upon seeing the rising sun in the morning of a sunny day.

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The tune was later merged into the famous [[Yellow River Piano Concerto]] in 1969 by [[Yin Chengzong]], and the concerto was based on the [[Yellow River Cantata]] by [[Xian Xinghai]].

Associations with the [[Cultural Revolution]], led to the fact that the song was rarely heard after the rise of [[Deng Xiaoping]] in the late [[1970s]].  Today in China the song is considered a somewhat unseemly reminder of the [[cult of personality]] associated with [[Mao Zedong|Mao]] and has largely been replaced by 
a revised version the [[March of the Volunteers]], which mentions neither the Communist Party nor Mao.

It is also the name of a series of [[China's space program|Chinese satellites]].  China's first satellite, [[Dong Fang Hong 1]], included a transmitter broadcasting this song.

''[[media:The East is Red.au|Click to listen]]''

== Chinese lyrics==
:   东方红，太阳升，
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[[Category:National anthems|East is Red]]
[[Category:Cultural Revolution]]

[[ms:Timur adalah Merah]]
[[zh:东方红]]
[[ja:東方紅]]
[[ru:Алеет Восток]]