Major-key songs include "Edelweiss", "Love of the Republic of China" and "Farewell"; minor-key songs include "Why Are the Flowers So Red", "Country Road", "Youth Dance" ", the specific introduction is as follows:
1. "Edelweiss"
"Edelweiss" was released in 1959. Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The lyrics of "Edelweiss" are a beautiful little poem. The lines of the poem are long and short. Lines three and four rhyme, lines two and five rhyme, lines six and seven rhyme, lines eight and ten rhyme, and lines one and nine rhyme.
2. "The Love of *** and the Country"
"The Love of *** and the Country", also known as "Dependent on Life and Death, I Love You Bitterly", is the feature film "* **The theme song of "Love in the Republic of China". The music album "White Hair·Yellow Sand" was released in April 2000.
3. "Farewell"
The tune of "Farewell" is taken from the American song "Dreaming of Home and Mother" composed by John P. Ordway. During Li Shutong's stay in Japan, Japanese lyricist Inudo Qiu Kei filled in the lyrics of a song called "Traveler's Sorrow" using the melody of "Dreaming of Home and Mother". "Farewell" written by Li Shutong in 1915 is based on "Traveler's Sorrow" by Quan Tong Qiuxi.
4. "Why are the flowers so red"
"Why are the flowers so red" is a famous episode in the movie "Visitors from the Iceberg", adapted from a Tajik folk song. Come. In 2020, the song was nominated for the National Top Ten Film Golden Melody Award at the New Era International Film Festival for the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
5. "Country Road"
"Country Road" is one of the representative lyrics and music works of the famous Taiwanese musician Ye Jiaxiu. Zhu Fengbo, a famous mezzo-soprano singer from the Mainland, introduced it to the mainland in 1980 and sang it. "Country Road" has also been selected into the Jiangsu Education Edition's fifth-grade textbook.
6. "Youth Dance"
"Youth Dance" is originally a short and concise song from Xinjiang. In 1939, Wang Luobin, the king of western Chinese singers, collected this Xinjiang folk song when he was sorting out western music, and later adapted it into a Chinese song, which was included in "Lift Your Hijab - Western Singer Wang Luobin and His Songs" "Hundred Songs in Praise of China 2".