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Fengyang Flower Drum (simplified Chinese: 凤阳花鼓; traditional Chinese: 鳳陽花鼓; pinyin: Fèng yáng huāgǔ) is a traditional Chinese folk song, a form of Quyi, from Fengyang County, Anhui Province that was developed during the late Ming Dynasty. Originally, it was performed by two seated female singers (usually sisters-in-law).
The song was widely used by the Chinese government in turn-of-the-century official events, [16] but became censored [19] after the 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests, also called the Jasmine ("Mo li hua") Revolution, [21] which used the song as a deniable and hard-to-block way of expressing support for democracy.
This song was an instant hit, and was added to the music curriculum for vocal students in China. [8] This song remains popular to this very day, and has been frequently performed in China and internationally. [7] This song was chosen to be the theme song of the homonymic film My People, My Country (2019), which was released on 30 September 2019 ...
The lyrics (1920) by Zhang Taiyan (章太炎) from the classic "The Song to the Auspicious Cloud" (卿雲歌) from the Book of Documents. The music (1921) by Beijing professor, Xiao Youmei (蕭友梅). The anthem was released in July 1921 by the Department of National Affairs (國務院).
This is a list of the songs that topped the Global Chinese Pop Chart in 2018.. The Global Chinese Pop Chart (全球华语歌曲排行榜) is a weekly Chinese language pop music chart compiled by 7 Chinese language radio stations across Asia: Beijing Music Radio, Shanghai Eastern Broadcasting (), Radio Guangdong, Radio Television Hong Kong, Taipei Pop Radio, Singapore's Y.E.S. 93.3FM and ...
"The Wandering Songstress" was performed in a traditional Chinese vocal style, accompanied by Chinese music instruments such as erhu, pipa, and sanxian in the manner of a Jiangnan ballad. According to He, the recording was done quickly as Zhou Xuan grasped the idea of how the song should be performed very quickly.
"Gongxi Gongxi" (Chinese: 恭喜恭喜; pinyin: Gōngxǐ gōngxǐ; lit. 'congratulations', 'congratulations'), mistranslated in public as "Wishing You Happiness and Prosperity" (which is the meaning of gōngxǐ fācái (恭喜發財)), is a popular Mandarin Chinese song and a Chinese Lunar New Year standard. [1]
"Ode to the Motherland" [1] (simplified Chinese: 歌 唱 祖 国; traditional Chinese: 歌 唱 祖 國; pinyin: Gēchàng Zǔguó) is a patriotic song of the People's Republic of China, written and music composed by Wang Shen [2] (王 莘; Wáng Shēn; 26 October 1918–October 15, 2007) during the period immediately after the founding of the ...