Starting from the time when Mr. Li Jinhui, the forerunner of China pop music, was engaged in music activities, and taking his anti-feudal Yue Ming Opera Club as a clue, he started with children's music performances such as Three Butterflies, Sparrows and Children, Poor Chou-heung and Cold Clothes Song, and then created the first batch of family love songs in China, namely, Rain, Sister I Love You, taohuajiang, etc. This problem ended with the dissolution of the Music Group of Yue Ming Opera Association, and most singers entered the film industry.

The second stage of development:

Early period: 1937- 1949 (Shanghai period)

After entering the film industry from Zhou Xuan in this issue, two episodes sung in the films "Street Angel", "Sing Girl" and "Four Seasons Song" spread all over the country. She created a generation's singing style and influenced the whole China music scene.

The whole situation of this period of music is that there is no singing and dancing troupe to perform. Only a few singers specialize in recording and radio broadcasting. Most singers mainly make movies, and the shadow songs that sing movie episodes appear in amphibious form. In this issue, after the founding of the Republic, most of the main representative singers moved to Hong Kong for development.

Later period: 1950- 1969 (Hong Kong period)

This issue started with Yao Min and Yao Li, and many lead singers moved to Hongkong. At first, it was mainly movies and songs, but as time went on, the proportion of singers who sang and recorded records increased. The interlude in the film was not sung by the actors themselves, and professional singers were invited to accompany it, but there was still no obviously influential song and dance group performance.

At the end of 1960s, Mandarin pop songs gradually declined in Hong Kong, while Cantonese songs flourished and occupied the dominant position in the music scene. The main representative is Samuel Hui.

The third development stage: 1970- 198 1 (Taiwan Province Province period).

Since the late 1960s, pop music in Taiwan Province Province has gradually developed. Replaced the declining status of Mandarin pop songs in Hong Kong music scene. Its symbol is that Xie Lei's "Mary" is popular in Southeast Asia, which has established a leading position in the pop music scene in Taiwan Province Province.

Previously, the songs performed in the music scene in Taiwan Province Province included folk songs of the Han nationality and various ethnic minorities (including songs in Minnan); Mandarin pop songs in Shanghai and Hong Kong; And songs influenced by Japan. Later, he gradually created a time song with his own characteristics between Shanghai pop songs and modern urban pop songs. This style of songs did not gradually decline until the early 1980 s and was replaced by popular songs in new cities.

In the mid-1970s, a famous campus folk song movement took place in Taiwan Province Province. Students initiated the creation and singing, which had a far-reaching impact and even spread to the music circles in Hong Kong and the Mainland. It was not until the early 1980s that pop music was introduced and developed together, injecting fresh blood into pop music.

The fourth stage of development: after 1982 (period of diversification of center of gravity)

At the end of 1970s, the popular songs of Mandarin in Taiwan Province Province began to decline. Because Tayu Lo's album "Who are you" followed Julie's album "Riding on the Wrong Bus", it changed the style of Taiwan's music scene and laid the foundation for new city pop songs.

The song style of this issue is far from the original domestic tradition and is deeply influenced by Europe and America. Chinese pop music, led by Taiwan Province Province, has developed rapidly. Because during this period, with the continuous development of science, high-tech means were applied to music production, and the commercialization trend became more obvious, which promoted the development of pop music. There is a scene that China pop songs are blooming everywhere in the world. Coupled with the market economy of the mainland's reform and opening up policy, pop music has also developed. In this way, its market will be broader, forming a diversified pattern of focus.

During this period, the audience was obviously divided, and pop music almost became the patent of young people, which was unacceptable to most elderly listeners. There was no strict boundary between pop music, folk music and serious music in Shanghai, which resulted in a completely different situation in Xian Yi.

China commercial pop music appeared at the same time as the phonograph, which was first brought to Shanghai Tibet Road by the Frenchman Labansat. EMI is one of the earliest record companies to establish China's pop music industry.

In the 1920s, China pop music was called time songs. They are regarded as the archetypes of China pop music. Geographically, Shanghai is the center of China's pop music. Li Jinhui, known as "the father of China pop music", is the founder of this genre. His work Rain in Mao Mao, which was written in 1920, is regarded as the earliest pop music in China.

In 1930s and 1940s, a large number of China pop music works emerged in Shanghai, and many musicians grew up. With the help of records, movies, songs and dances, radio and other media, an unprecedented new upsurge of singing has been set off in China and even the Far East. Some experts believe that the old Shanghai songs of that era have shown a modernity.

The "Seven Singers" in the early Republic of China established the position of Chinese pop music in Asian society. These singers combine the singing skills of China traditional ditty and Japanese pop music, and their singing style is different from any previous China music. At this time, the film industry in China, which is in its infancy, is developing and expanding, recruiting singers to work as film actors or film songs.

Because of his success in singing and film performance, Zhou Xuan is regarded as the most representative pop star in China in this era. This generation witnessed the process that female singers jumped from "singing girls" to "stars" of public opinion. Their sweet songs are also transmitted to the radios of every household through radio stations located in major cities, and records have become attractive entertainment commodities under the packaging of record companies. This era was disturbed by the occupation of Shanghai and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression by Japanese invaders, but it lasted until the end of 1940s.

Extended data

Since the founder Mr. Li Jinhui engaged in music activities, pop music has developed in China for more than 80 years. According to the change of Song style and the shift of development focus, it can be divided into four development stages. The second development is divided into two stages and two periods. China pop music develops prehistoric school songs, so it has six parts.

Before pop music appeared, there were only school songs sung by students in the school. First sung among students, then widely circulated among the masses. It can be said that there would be no pop songs without pop songs. The main songwriters are Li Shutong (Master Hongyi), Zhao Yuanren and Shen Xingong.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-China Pop Music