China when the song My China Heart was born.

Creation background

1982, the Japanese Ministry of Education openly falsified the history of aggression against China when examining and approving textbooks for primary and secondary schools, which aroused David Henry Hwang's indignation, so he and Wang Fuling co-authored My China Heart. David Henry Hwang found the Hong Kong singer Zhang Mingmin and told him that you have China, a name and the Chinese nation in your heart. Do you have a heart? So I gave my China Heart to Zhang Mingmin to sing. In the autumn of 1983, in order to prepare for the Spring Festival Evening of 1984, CCTV directors visited Fujian and Guangdong. One day, they were sitting in a jeep driven by armed police soldiers. When they were running in Shenzhen, which was still very shabby at that time, the director of CCTV was very excited by a song accidentally played on the soldier's car. "Although my clothes are on, my heart still belongs to China ... even if I am in a foreign country, it will not change my heart in China ..." Director Yuan later recalled: "We were stunned by this song when we were sitting in the car, and then I asked him, who did I say this song was sung? He said he was a Hong Kong singer and didn't know his name. Later, I asked him to copy a tape for me. " Soon, director Yuan learned that this song was sung by a Hong Kong singer named. So, at the 1984 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Zhang Mingmin sang My China Heart for hundreds of millions of China TV viewers, which touched the hearts of countless China people at once and aroused the strong sense of * * * of China compatriots. It's easy to conceptualize and shout slogans when writing patriotic songs, but David Henry Hwang skillfully uses symbolic China attractions such as "Great Wall of the Yangtze River, Huangshan Mountain and Yellow River" to convey patriotic feelings. The whole song was cut in the tone of an overseas traveler, which naturally wrote a magnificent theme, thus conquering everyone. 1984 "My China Heart" won the third God Bell Award from the Song Editorial Department of China Music Association.

My China Heart, a male quartet, is a song with a single three-part structure and the present. The first paragraph shows the deep affection of overseas sons for the motherland, with a soft, gentle, sincere and deep voice. When entering the third paragraph of "The Yangtze River and the Great Wall", the melody fluctuated greatly and the mood gradually rose, which fully expressed the deep praise and infinite love of the people of China for the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. The fourth paragraph further deepens the deep feelings for the motherland. With the development of the melody, the whole song ends at the climax. Passionate and affectionate singing is full of growing pride in the motherland.

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Huang Junsheng, with my China heart Huang Junsheng (194 1-2004), was originally named Huang, and his ancestral home was Panyu, Guangdong, and his ancestral home was Shunde, Guangdong. David Henry Hwang, Ni Kuang who wrote science fiction, Cai Lan who wrote food and Jin Yong who wrote martial arts, are called "the four great talents in Hong Kong", and Ni Kuang and Cai Lan are called "the three famous mouths in Hong Kong". From 65438 to 0949, he moved to Hong Kong with his parents and enrolled in Lhasa College. 1960 entered the Chinese Department of the College of Literature of Hong Kong University, 1963 graduated, and taught in Dennis Middle School for two years. 65438-0965, hosted TV programs in an amateur form and wrote columns in newspapers and periodicals. In September of the same year, he entered the advertising department of British American Tobacco Co., Ltd., and the slogan "When remy martin opens, good things will come naturally" came from his handwriting. 1968, promoted to deputy advertising manager. 1968, James J.S.Wong composed the first famous song "Forget Him", which was first sung by Guan Shuyi, and later included in Teresa Teng's Cantonese album, which was very popular among fans. The lyrics were recorded after a generation of songs. 1969 won the male master of ceremonies award for the best TV program and was known as the "Prince of TV". 65438-0970, transferred to Ling-McCann-Eriksson as the joint creative director, was the first Hong Kong person to win the Clio Award, the highest honor in American advertising. 1972 was hired by Cathay Pacific Advertising as the general manager, and in the same year he became the director of Hong Kong Composers and Lyrics Association (CASH). 1973 founded cauldron cinema with friends, wrote and directed Paradise, and made it into the top ten blockbusters of the year. In the same year, he wrote a collection of adult jokes, but there was no collection. 1976 founded "Huang Yulin Advertising Company" with talented woman Lin Yanni, and served as the chairman. The film series "Under the Lion Mountain" began at 1973, and tells the story of Hong Kong's grassroots struggle and self-improvement in adversity. It lasted 2 1 year, with more than 200 episodes, and was well known by thousands of households in Hong Kong. 1979, the theme song of the same name "Under the Lion Mountain" written by James J.S.Wong gave great encouragement to Hong Kong people in the early stage of economic take-off and was later adopted as the city song of Hong Kong. His lyrics "Under the Lion Mountain" and "Hong Kong is my home" were accompanied by the growth of Hong Kong people in the 1970s. At the beginning of March 2003, Antony LEUNG, former Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong SAR Government, ended his first budget speech with a theme song "Under the Lion Rock", which immediately aroused enthusiastic response from Hong Kong people. According to a statistic, within two weeks after the lyrics of "Under the Lion Rock" appeared in newspapers in Hong Kong, 160 articles with the theme of "Under the Lion Rock" appeared, which shows its far-reaching influence on Hong Kong society. 1978 The works "Swear to the Mountain", "Dragon Slayer" and "Crocodile Tears" were selected as the first top ten Chinese golden songs of Radio Television Hong Kong. Zhang Mingmin (my China Heart Singer) 1979, Taiwan Province's campus folk songs are very popular. Deng Bingheng, the boss of Hong Kong Eternal Records, thinks that it may be a good choice to release Mandarin records in Hong Kong. At that time, Hong Kong had already implemented royalties for music creation. The more popular the song is, the more royalties the creator gets. In the situation that Cantonese songs are popular all over the world, almost no one wants to write Chinese songs. At that time, all singers who sang Chinese songs were called "national singers". 1980, Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher started talks. In this context, the boss of the company thought it was a very good opportunity to start planning a new album for me. Deng Bingheng found James J.S.Wong, who became popular by writing Cantonese songs, and asked him to write a Chinese song. James J.S.Wong offered the same price as Cantonese songs, and Deng Bingheng agreed. David Henry Hwang wrote My China Heart, which was composed by Wang Fuling. The company decided to use this song as the title of the album. 1982 My China Heart was published, but it was not as popular as the company expected, with low sales volume and mediocre social response. Hong Kong people began to call me a "patriotic singer". In Hong Kong at that time, such a title had an ironic meaning. 1983, China and Britain began formal negotiations on the Hong Kong issue. Under such a political background, CCTV Spring Festival Evening also made a bold exploration and wanted to invite Hong Kong artists to perform at the party. At that time, my boss didn't allow me to sing at the CCTV party. If I did, I was forbidden to release my records in Taiwan Province Province. 1984, singing "My China Heart" and "On the Ridge" at CCTV Spring Festival Gala. This time, when I walked into thousands of households, this song became popular at once. There are several sacks of letters written by viewers to CCTV. Looking at these letters, I was dumbfounded and excited. Then the media in Hong Kong began to call me a "leftist singer" because I performed on CCTV. After returning to Hong Kong, my situation has not changed. From about 1985 to 1986, it seems that I saw James J.S.Wong again at a dinner party. I told him that my China Heart is very popular in mainland China, and hundreds of millions of people in China can sing it. I thank him for writing such a good song. He didn't believe me and thought I was joking with him. He just said, "What's the use of red?" At that time, his economic conditions were not good, and China did not join the international copyright convention. No matter how popular My China Heart is in mainland China, he won't receive any royalties. Including his "Shanghai Beach", became an instant hit with the broadcast of mainland TV series. Repeatedly broadcast by radio and television, published in newspapers and periodicals, he didn't get royalties. So, at that time, James J.S.Wong joked, "You can help me get those tax editions back." Although he didn't get a penny, James J.S.Wong was still very happy. At that time, the Reference News of the mainland published an article about a reporter from Xinhua News Agency visiting Deng Xiaoping's family life, saying that one afternoon in Zhongnanhai, Deng Xiaoping was with his grandchildren and taught them to sing the song My China Heart. This report was later reprinted by newspapers in Hong Kong. 1987, I officially entered the mainland market, and my solo album sold like hot cakes as soon as it was published in the mainland. Later, because a new album was coming out, I invited James J.S.Wong to dinner and asked him to write a song for me. He also agreed. Later, I waited for a long time. I don't know why, but he never wrote it. After China joined the international copyright convention and implemented the royalty system, he also received some royalties from My China Heart.