The song "I Love You China" is the theme song of the movie "Overseas Red Son". 1980, the spring wind of reform and opening up blew soon, the return of Chinese people to China is increasing day by day. Under such a background, China made a movie "Overseas Red Son" reflecting the patriotic overseas Chinese's heart for the motherland. It is a movie reflecting the sorrows and joys of overseas Chinese. A young woman, Huang Sihua, applies for the army's cultural troupe, and although her singing voice is clear and melodious, she is the daughter of an overseas Chinese, so her acceptance is met with resistance. After the "Gang of Four" is crushed, Sihua finally takes to the stage.
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I love you China, I want to dedicate my youth to you, my mother, my motherland.
With the popularity of the movie in the early 1980s, this theme song sung by the famous soprano, Malaysian returned overseas Chinese, Ye Peiying, was also sung on the Chinese soil. I Love You, China" was honored as the "Excellent Mass Song" in the 1980 Mass Song Awards, and won the "Morning Bell Award" in the 1983 First Excellent Song Awards.
The lyrics of the song "I Love You, China" adopt the writing technique of "fubi xing" of traditional Chinese lyrics, with one chorus and three sighs, and the words are condensed. The use of overlapping sentences, prose and other techniques, the motherland's spring seedlings and autumn fruits, forests, mountains and rivers, fields and crops, etc., made a graphic depiction and delicate portrayal, expressing the overseas son of the motherland's full of passion and sincere patriotism feelings. The song consists of three parts. The first part is the introduction of the nature of the section, the rhythm is free, breath wide, bright, high pitch, melodic ups and downs, to introduce people to the lark overlooking the earth and singing the art world. The second part is the main part of the song, the rhythm is more gentle, the melody rises layer by layer, euphemistic, deep and inner, spreading a picture of the motherland's magnificent mountains and rivers, so that the theme of "I love you, China" continues to deepen the idea. The third part is the concluding section, after two liner notes "ah" lyric, leading to the song's climax. The final phrase "my mother, my motherland" ends on a high note, pouring out the overseas sons and daughters of the motherland full of fiery patriotism. The tune ebbs and flows, the rhythm is free and long, and the first part of the echo.
After the founding of New China, the work of overseas Chinese has made a lot of achievements, but due to the influence of the extreme leftist ideology, in a long period of time, the status and role of overseas Chinese have not been fully understood. During the ten years of turmoil, "overseas relations" were even regarded as "reactionary relations". After the "Gang of Four" was crushed, a large number of literary works such as "I Love You, China" reflecting positively on overseas Chinese broke through after the reorganization.
I love the South China Sea with its rolling blue waves, and I love the North China with its drifting snow. I love the boundless forests, I love the towering mountains ......
Despite the simplicity of the lyrics, there is a stirring passion. The song "I love you, China" expresses the infinite deep feelings of overseas travelers who miss their motherland to the fullest. Whenever this song is sung, people can experience a gush of passion, so that every yellow children's hearts are swirling with the lofty love of the motherland.