The song "My Chinese Heart" was written in 1982.
In September of that year, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited China, and Comrade Xiaoping proposed a plan of "one country, two systems" to recover Hong Kong's sovereignty, and the two sides reached a consensus. When the news came out, the people at home and abroad were extremely excited.
At this moment, the Japanese Ministry of Education launched a textbook that seriously tampered with the history of Japan's invasion of China, and the famous Hong Kong lyricist Mr. Huang Xia was filled with indignation and indignantly wrote the lyrics of "Although the dress is worn on the body, my heart is still the Heart of China", composer Wang Fuling composed the music, and "My Chinese Heart" was born.
At that time, there were not many singers in the Hong Kong music scene who sang with Chinese, and Zhang Mingmin was one of the better.
In the second half of 1983, when preparations for the 84 CCTV Spring Festival Gala were underway, director Huang Yihe, inspired by a report in Guangming Daily, decided to invite Hong Kong and Taiwan artists to attend the Spring Festival Gala.
Deputy director Yuan Dewang went south to Shenzhen to collect wind, in the armed police jeep, Yuan Dewang heard "My Chinese Heart" for the first time, the song was thick and atmospheric and direct to the chest, which made Yuan Dewang very excited, he immediately copied the tape, and wrote down the singer's name - Zhang Mingmin.
Director Huang Yihe was also impressed by this magnificent patriotic song, and found Zhang Mingmin through the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency and sent him an invitation to the Spring Festival Gala, which Zhang Minming gladly accepted.
The actors of the Spring Festival Gala of that year needed to pass the censorship and demand historical innocence, but hong Kong at that time was still under the jurisdiction of the British, and zhang Mingmin was a technician in a hong Kong electronic watch manufacturing factory and an amateur singer. The situation was reported to Wu Lengxi, then minister of radio and television, and Elder Wu was cautious and vigorously opposed. Through the secretary told Huang Yihe that if he insisted on inviting Hong Kong and Taiwan actors, the Ministry of Radio and Television would consider replacing the director of the Spring Festival Gala in 1984.
Huang Yihe's idea of the party was supported by CCTV, and the station leaders and Wu Lengxi had a telephone conversation for more than ten hours, and finally persuaded Wu Lengxi.
At this time, there are only 4 days left before the live broadcast of the 84 Spring Festival Gala.
On February 1, 1984, Zhang Mingmin and four other Hong Kong and Taiwan artists appeared on the domestic stage for the first time.
That night, Zhang Mingmin was undoubtedly the brightest star, he wore a khaki suit, brown tie, camel scarf, wearing retro gold wire glasses to sing "My Chinese Heart", the scene was boiling, hundreds of millions of mainland audiences knew through live broadcasting, Hong Kong is not only a beautiful sound, but also such a bloody Peng bai song.
Later, Zhang Mingmin changed into a suit, dressed in a Zhongshan suit, and sang three campus songs in a row: "Ridge Uplink", "Grandma's Penghu Bay" and "Walking on the Country Road".
His gentle and generous typhoon captivated mainland audiences.
Zhang Mingmin's appearance on the spring festival gala stage gave the mainland a new understanding of pop music. Starting with Cheung Ming Min, excellent Hong Kong and Taiwan songs can be officially sung on the mainland stage. Deng Yingchao, then chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, instructed that after the program of the Spring Festival Gala in 1984 was cut out, it was used as a publicity material to entertain foreign guests.
The huge influence of CCTV has made Hong Kong's little-known "My Chinese Heart" a common voice of overseas children.
On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong was returned to the motherland. Zhang Mingmin sang "My Chinese Heart" again, and he changed the last sentence of "My Chinese Heart" to "Our Chinese Heart" with the finishing touch, which won praise from all parties.
On February 21, 2008, the lunar exploration satellite Chang'e-1 took off, and 32 classic Chinese songs came from the lunar orbit 380,000 kilometers away, including "My Chinese Heart".
When recalling the process of creating the lyrics many years later, the lyricist Huang Xia said that at that time, the mood was surging and waved, except for the later change from "heavy in my heart" to "heavy thousand pounds".
But Mr. Huang also expressed one of his regrets, "My Chinese Heart" was widely sung by overseas Chinese, but in Hong Kong "completely silent, very few people know, no media broadcast." ”
It has been 34 years since Hong Kong's return to the motherland, and it is time for "My Chinese Heart" to sing "Oriental Pearl" over the sky.
Mr. Zhang Mingmin's 84 Spring Festival Gala video in "Old Geng Miscellaneous Talk", interested friends can find it to watch.