"Looking at the Sea" is a song sung by mainland female artist Zhou Xun. Written by Mars Radio and composed by Mo Yanlin, it was included in Zhou Xun's album "Summer" released in April 2003. It is an episode of the 2003 TV series "The Beach".

In March 2004, the song won the top ten golden songs in the 2003 Music Pioneer List and the annual golden song in the 11th China Song Ranking.

In the summer of 2001, Mo Yanlin wrote "Looking at the Sea" in Wuhan. This was the first complete work written by Mo Yanlin. In 2002, Mo Yanlin came to Beijing with 5 works. The work was sent to Warner Vice President Song Ke. Song Ke chose "Looking at the Sea" and said that this song was suitable for Zhou Xun to sing. Later, "Looking at the Sea" was selected as the title song of Zhou Xun's album "Summer".

Halfway through the recording of the 2002 album "Summer", Zhou Xun fell in love with Li Yapeng and went to Hainan to film the TV series "The Beach" with Li Yapeng. The production team had no choice but to move to Hainan, where Zhou Xun stayed at the studio hotel every day. There was no recording studio, so I piled four or five mattresses on the wall of the hotel room. I didn’t have a windproof racket, so I bought stockings on the street to wrap around my badminton racket.

At first, the four people in the production team didn’t like the title song “Looking at the Sea” in the album, saying that it was a pop song, vulgar. Zhou Xun's attitude was very resolute, and Song Ke forced them to submit. A few months later, "Looking at the Sea" became really popular.