Love the melody of the Fatherland

Fatherland - two sacred words that every time they are uttered, the hearts of millions of Vietnamese people are filled with so many emotions: love, affection, pride, trust and honor.

Our generation is extremely fortunate to be born and raised in peace, to inherit precious material and spiritual values ​​that many previous generations have shed sweat, tears and blood to preserve and protect. Every time I look back at the history of ups and downs, changes in the journey of building and defending the country of generations of fathers and brothers, my heart is stirred, moved and proud of the "Songs that go with the years".

The country of the epic of a thousand years of history has left its mark on the melodies I love. I love the melody of the Fatherland with its sweet, profound folk music. The spirit, the spirit, the soul of the nation for more than four thousand years has resounded into beautiful, simple, rustic, yet elegant melodies. From a lyrical country emerging from folk songs and fairy tales; a country of "blood mixed with mud" in extreme misery, to a victorious country "shaking off the mud and shining brightly" with a triumphant song on the day of gaining independence and freedom, so that people can happily walk freely with the autumn of history, spreading their faith and love in the blue sky, the color of peace.

The melodies about the Fatherland are the voices distilled from the heart, from the passionate love for the country, the pride of a legendary nation. Those melodies echo with heroic and tragic sounds:“My country, the slender drops of the monochord/ Listen to the mother's pain/ Three times seeing her children off/ Twice crying silently/ The brothers did not return/ Mother alone in silence…" (Country). The image of a hard-working, diligent, loyal, compassionate and shining revolutionary mother is forever imprinted in the minds of many people.

I love the passionate, profound but also heroic melodies about the Fatherland: "I hear in the marching army/ I hear in the storm/ Four thousand years of hardship for the country/ The melody burns in the boundless love for the country…”. I love the melody of the triumphal songs in the new history of the proud and undaunted country:“I want to fly up, to be intoxicated by the majestic mountains and rivers/ I want to shout loudly, to sing forever the song of Vietnam/ The heroic Fatherland…” (The country is full of joy). I love the gentle, warm melody, kindling the simple happiness of many Vietnamese people in the early days of independence: “That dream spring is coming first/ Tears on my shoulder/ Drops fall warmly on my shoulder/ The joy of the moment seems to be sparkling"(The first spring) and the promise to the future with steadfast faith and spirit, the will to build the Fatherland in the new opportunity: "The happy road is now wide open/ My soul is full of wind, my dear/ Building beautiful dreams for the future/ My dear, strike up a chord with the zither…(Spring melody).

Melodies about the Fatherland have aroused in people's hearts emotions and impressions about the Fatherland of Vietnam and the simple yet indomitable Vietnamese people, making them exclaim:“How proud is the four thousand year old country…”(The Party Flag). It is the ups and downs of the country that have created the "national melodies" that resonate forever in the hearts of people today and tomorrow.

Living in the heroic atmosphere of the autumn days celebrating the success of the August Revolution and the Independence Day on September 2, we are filled with love for our homeland and Fatherland, singing together to recall the glorious tradition, proud to carry the blood of Lac Hong:“Four thousand years of hardship for the country, the melody burns, in the boundless love for the country”(Melody of the Fatherland). Today's and future generations will always be proud and confident:“The country of four thousand years/ Hard work and hardship/ The country is like a star/ Always moving forward”(Little Spring).