1. Social background
In the 1970s, Taiwan successively experienced the withdrawal from the United Nations, the angling movement, Nixon's visit to China, and successively broke diplomatic relations with the United States, Japan and more than 30 other countries, so that Taiwan's nationalist movement was unprecedentedly intense.
Social emotions strong environment of loss, the Taiwanese in cultural efforts to create are also sad creations.
The Modern Poetry Polemic and the Vernacular Literature Polemic took place in the contemporary literary movement, which made most of the intellectual youths with unlimited hope for the future life to be a part of the camp of Vernacular Literature under the influence of the general environment.
2, the background of the composition
Qi Yu began to sing the song with the Western folk singing style, but by the time it actually went into the studio, Li Taixiang had a lot more ideas, Li Taixiang's request was to sing the song in a very broad, there can not be a false note, he felt that the false note is the sound of a woozy voice.
The lyricist of "Olive Tree", Sanmao, didn't agree with some of the lyrics, and the earliest Sanmao's lyrics were "Little Donkey", which didn't sound good enough to be sung, and that's why Li Taixiang talked to Sanmao to change it to "Olive Tree"
This is the first time that the song has been sung in the United States, but it's not the only one. Expanded Information
"Olive Tree" - Qi Yu
Lyrics: Sansao, Music: Li Taixiang
Don't ask me where I'm from
My hometown is far away
Why are you wandering
Wandering far away Wandering
To the sky flying birds
Why are you wandering far away
Wandering far away? For the birds that fly in the sky
For the streams that flow gently in the mountains
For the wide meadows
Wandering far away, wandering
And still more
For the olive trees in my dreams, the olive trees
Don't ask me where I come from
My homeland is far away
Why wander
Why wander far away
For my home, far away
Why wander far away
Why wander far away
Why do I wander far away?
For the olive trees of my dreams
Don't ask me where I come from
My homeland is far away
Why wander
Wandering far away Wandering
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