Editor's Note
Hunan International Channel launched a special project of "A Hundred Years of Glory in China, The Tide of the World", which is three-dimensionally linked with the historical memory of the Communist Party of China over the past hundred years in the form of "songs, scenery and poetry", and carries out a series of special practices in party history study and education around the three major sections of "time and space duet", "time and space pursuit" and "time and space recitation". With red classics and odes to the century-old style, the "Centennial Glory of China" column of Hunan International Channel will make a MV of selected representative red songs that are familiar to us, and through the "black technology" editing technique, the new and old "on the same stage" sing the same song together, presenting a time and space duet spanning a hundred years.
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The Great China
"We all have a home, called China. Lots of brothers and sisters and nice view. There are two dragons coiled in the house, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, and Mount Everest is the highest slope. This song, which was once popular in the north and south of the river, was originally called "China", and was recorded by original musician Gao Feng in 1994.
In 1995, CCTV's "Oriental Time and Space" music tv was revised, and the song was released and caused a warm response throughout the country. Subsequently, it landed on CCTV Spring Festival Gala three times in 1996, 1998 and 2021, becoming an unforgettable memory of the Spring Festival Gala for generations.
On the spring evening of CCTV in 1996, Gao Feng sang "China" in the program "95 Pop Wind". In 1998, the song was renamed "Great China", which was reinterpreted by Andy Lau on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Against the backdrop of Hong Kong's return to the motherland in 1997, this heroic and powerful "Great China" undoubtedly explains the meaning of "Great China" very well. After 23 years, on the spring evening of CCTV in 2021, "Great China" was sung for the third time as the opening song and dance, which is enough to see its charm.
This song is a song that praises the motherland, the lyrics are catchy and easy to sing. There are many scenic spots and geographical features representing Chinese symbols in the lyrics, such as thousands of turns, rushing to the sea, like the Yangtze River and the Yellow River like two giant dragons, the world's highest peak Everest, the Great Wall that meanders 20,000 miles of lofty mountains, and the vast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, all of which highlight the colorful rivers and mountains of the motherland, showing the national self-esteem and pride of the sons and daughters of China, and the metaphor of "one home" makes us feel that patriotism is as kind and natural as loving home.
The music creation of "Great China" is based on "Dongfang Hong", "Red Silk Dance" and Northeast folk songs and Korean music as materials, and in terms of tunes, it integrates many songs with local folk song tunes, accompanied by a sonorous and festive gong rhythm, forming a warm atmosphere, so that the majority of listeners can feel a strong sense of intimacy and joy when listening to and singing this song. Its melody integrates the music of the north and south of China and is easily sung by people all over the country.
Since the birth of this popular "Great China", it has been loved and welcomed by people of different ages and different fields for more than 20 years.
"Spring in all corners of the world" 2021 Global Overseas Chinese Spring Festival Evening, singer-songwriter Shang Wenjie and singer Bai Jugang newly arranged and interpreted the blood-burning "Great China", integrating rap into the song, singing the innermost pride and pride of Yanhuang's descendants in a young way, singing the lasting and powerful centripetal force and cultural self-confidence of the Chinese nation, and the familiar melody also made the global overseas Chinese feel more cordial and encourage positive energy.
9.6 million square kilometers of land, beautiful rivers and rich products, there are vast and fertile land, there are large and small mountains running through the country, there are countless rivers and lakes... The splendid culture of five thousand years up and down, fifty-six nationalities, form a great family, the common motherland of our sons and daughters of China - China.
"China, bless you, you will always be in my heart." China, bless you, without a thousand words and a thousand words. "No matter when, no matter where, "Great China" is sung so vigorously, it stirs the Chinese hearts of hundreds of millions of Chinese and overseas Chinese, stimulates the patriotic enthusiasm of yanhuang descendants, and expresses the pride of the Chinese nation.
Producer/Commander-in-Chief
Editor-in-Chief/Chen Weichun
Video/Xia Jingting
Editor/Leilei Li