Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm

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Movie poster for Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm.

Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm (Traditional Chinese: 風雲兒女; Simplified Chinese: 风云儿女; pinyin: Fēng xúe nǔ ér)is a 1935 Chinese black-and-white movie about an intellectual who leaves to fight in the Second Sino-Japanese War. The movie was directed by Xu Xingzhi and the scriptwriters were Tian Han and Xia Yan. It starred Yuan Muzhi (Chinese: 袁牧之) and Wang Renmei (Chinese: 王人美).

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Main article: The March of the Volunteers

The theme song to the movie, The March of the Volunteers, was sung by Gu Menghe and Yuan Muzhi. The song was released as an album by the Pathé Records label (which later became part of EMI in 1935).

The March of the Volunteers was selected as the national anthem of the People's Republic of China in 1949. This decision was formally written into the Constitution of the People's Republic of China in March 2004.