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"I Love Beijing Tiananmen"
Tiananmen in Beijing
Song
Genre	Children's music, revolutionary song
Songwriter(s)	Jin Yueling
Lyricist(s)	Jin Guolin
Audio sample
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"I Love Beijing Tiananmen" (formerly written "I love Peking Tiananmen") (Chinese: 我爱北京天安门; pinyin: Wǒ ài Běijīng Tiān'ānmén), is a children's song written during the Cultural Revolution of China.

History

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The lyrics to the song were written by Jin Guolin, a 12-year-old student who was in 5th grade in 1970, and the composer was Jin Yueling, a 19-year-old apprentice from Shanghai Sixth Glass Factory.

This song was part of the daily routine for many primary schools. It would be sung, following "The Internationale" and "The East is Red". It was also used as propaganda with a similar use to Red Sun in the Sky.

The first three measures of the chorus of this song were used repeatedly as background music in Hong Kong 97, an infamous bootleg Super Famicom game released in 1995. The game, whose plot involved the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, had a strong anti-communist sentiment, and therefore, the song was used sarcastically.

Lyrics

References

1. Lin, Xiaoping (November 2, 2009). Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema. University of Hawaii Press. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-8248-3763-1.
2. Dee, Jake (September 28, 2011). "10 Hilariously Horrendous Video Game Soundtracks". Screen Rant. Retrieved November 13, 2024.

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