The Olive Tree
In the 1970s, Taiwan's economy was only just beginning to take off, but it was losing ground on the international stage. She was forced to withdraw from the United Nations, the fishing campaign, Nixon's visit to China, and has been separated from more than 30 countries, including the United States and Japan. The nationalist movement was as intense as ever. The literary tendency of an idea always follows the social tendency of the idea.
A strong sense of loss led the Taiwanese to struggle to create a "something of their own" in their own culture. In the literary field, there was a modern debate about poetry and local literature, and many young literary youths who had been ardent modernists had become the backbone of local literature. The backbone of the camps. The awakening of national consciousness was reflected in popular music, the celebrated movement of modern Taiwanese folk songs.
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On June 6, 1975, Yang Hsien, a creator and singer who had just graduated from Taiwan's National University College, initiated the "Modern Folk Songs Composition Concert" at Taipei's Zhongshan Hall. The concert is considered to be one of the most important modern pop songs. The concert is considered to be the origin of the modern popular song movement, and has been hailed as the first shot of the "Xinhai Revolution", while the reference to "modern Chinese folk songs" has also attracted attention.
By searching for folk music, Yang Xian gave folk songs more ethnic color and used Yu Guangzhong's poem to express the words. It gives a sense of nostalgia for history and culture. Singing Folk Songs usually makes him feel "a kind of China". It has been repressed for a long time, and the anxiety to struggle and move forward is arrogant. After singing, I can't sing."
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