《洪水时代》是郭沫若自由体新诗中最知名的篇章之一,这首诗与同期的《凤凰涅槃》一样深刻感动和影响了那个时代的许多人。1958年留学苏联莫斯科柴科夫斯基音乐学院的吴祖强以《洪水时代》为文学基础创作了康塔塔《塗山之阳——与洪水搏斗》(以下称《塗山之阳》)。作为吴祖强三首毕业作品之一,《塗山之阳》的第三乐章《期待》在前苏联以钢琴伴奏形式用俄语演唱, The “Flood Age” is one of the most well-known chapters in Guo Moruo’s new poem of freedom, which deeply touched and influenced many people of that era as the “Phoenix Nirvana” of the same period. Studying in the Soviet Union in 1958 Wu Zuqiang of Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in Moscow created Kangta Tower, “The Tusk of the Tu-yan - Fighting the Flood” (hereinafter referred to as “Tu-yang”) based on the “Flood Age” as the literary foundation. As one of the three graduation works by Wu Zuqiang, the third movement of “Tu Shan Yang” is “expected” to be sung in Russian style in the form of piano accompaniment in the former Soviet Union,