主播A：下午好，欢迎回到《Echo Snippet》。今天是十月一号。

主播B：今天是中华人民共和国成立七十七周年。

主播A：一九四九年十月一号，五星红旗第一次在天安门广场升起。

主播B：这面旗的设计者叫曾联松。当年公开征集，收到将近三千份设计稿。

主播A：他画的那一份，左上角一颗大五角星，右边环绕着四颗小星。

主播B：这里有个讲究：每一颗小星，都有一个角正对着大星的中心。

主播A：这个细节让五颗星之间有了一种向心的感觉，而不是简单排成一排。

主播B：再说一首歌。你大概每天都在唱，却未必知道它的来历。

主播A：《义勇军进行曲》。词作者田汉，曲作者聂耳。

主播B：说实话，它最早并不是一首仪式歌曲。

主播A：一九三五年，它是电影《风云儿女》的主题歌。

主播B：也就是说，这首歌比它后来代表的国家，还要年长十四岁。

主播A：一首在战火里写出来的歌，后来成了一个国家的国歌。

主播B：最后，我们说说一个更具体的地方。

主播A：你来的那个地方。它的口音，它最好吃的那道菜，村口那棵树。

主播B："爱国"这个词听起来很大，但它的根很小。

主播A：一个人是先爱上一个具体的地方，才学会爱一个更大的东西的。

合：祝我们的国家生日快乐。这里是回声碎语，我们下期见。

主播A：Good afternoon. Welcome back to Echo Snippet. Today is the first of October.

主播B：Today marks seventy-seven years since the People's Republic of China was founded.

主播A：On the first of October, 1949, the five-star red flag went up over Tiananmen Square for the first time.

主播B：The man who designed it was Zeng Liansong. The design was thrown open to the public, and nearly three thousand entries came in.

主播A：In his version, one large star sits in the upper left, with four smaller ones grouped to its right.

主播B：Here's the thing about that design: each small star points one corner straight at the centre of the big one.

主播A：That detail gives the five stars a sense of pulling towards one point, rather than just sitting in a row.

主播B：Now, a song you probably sing all the time without knowing where it came from.

主播A：The March of the Volunteers. The words are by Tian Han, the music by Nie Er.

主播B：To be fair, it didn't start out as a ceremony song.

主播A：In 1935 it was the theme song of a film called Children of the Storm.

主播B：Which means the song is fourteen years older than the country it now represents.

主播A：A song written in wartime later became a nation's anthem.

主播B：Let's finish somewhere more concrete.

主播A：The place you're from. Its accent, its one best dish, the tree at the entrance to the village.

主播B：Loving a big thing sounds like a big idea. But it starts small.

主播A：You fall for one specific place first. Only then do you learn to love something larger.

合：Happy birthday to our country. This is Echo Snippet — see you next time.