Chinese Piano - Red Songs : My Motherland (我的祖国) by Liu Zhi Qiao Yu
The era under Chairman Mao and the subsequent Cultural Revolution produced a large number of patriotic and Nationalistic Chinese music. Well known of these are "The East is Red" and "March of the Volunteers", both of which have been used as Chinese National Anthems, and possibly the most famous work of that era - The Yellow River Cantata and Piano Concerto. Notwithstanding the propaganda and political undertones of the lyrics of some of these "Red Songs", they have left a musical legacy of some very memorable tunes. My Motherland is one of the most famous patriotic songs of that era, extoling the beauty of the motherland. It is the theme song of a movie of the same name.
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