"I Love You China"
Lyrics: Qu Cong
Composition: Zheng Qiufeng
Songs: Ye Peiying
I love you China, larks flying through the blue sky
I love you China, I love you China, I love you China
I love your vigorous seedlings in spring, and I love your golden fruits in autumn
I love your green pine temperament, I love your red plum character
I love your sweet cane in my hometown, as if the milk nourishes my heart.
I love the temperament of the green pine, I love the character of the red plum
I love the sweet cane in my hometown, as if it were milk nourishing my heart
I love you China, I love you China, I want to dedicate the most beautiful song to you
My mother my motherland, I love you China, I love you China
I love you South China Sea where the turquoise wave rolls, I love you North China where the white snow flutters.
I love the boundless forests, I love the mountains
I love the murmuring river that flows through my dreams with its clear waves
I love you China, I love you China, I want to dedicate my youth to you
My mother, my motherland, ah... I want to dedicate my beautiful youth to you
My mother my motherland.
Expanded:
The song "I Love You China" is a classic interlude from the movie Red Son Overseas, starring Chen Chong, written in 1979 with lyrics by Qu Cong and music by Zheng Qiufeng. With the popularity of the movie in the early 1980s, the theme song, sung by soprano Ye Peiying, a Malaysian expatriate, quickly became a hit in China.
Background of Composition
Not long after the spring breeze of reform and opening up blew in 1980, the number of Chinese returning to China increased day by day. Against this background, China made a movie "Overseas Red Son" which reflected 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 she has a clear and melodious singing voice, her acceptance into the troupe is hindered by the fact that she is the daughter of an overseas Chinese. After the "Gang of Four" is crushed, Sihua finally takes to the stage. After the reorganization, a large number of literary works such as "I Love You, China" reflecting positively on the Chinese diaspora came out of the ground.
Honors
In 1980, "I Love You, China" was honored as "Excellent Mass Song", and in 1983, it was awarded the "Morning Bell Award" in the First Excellent Song Contest.