【龙年特备】原唱非王力宏？是政治歌曲？说说那些《龙的传人》故事
中国家喻户晓的歌曲《龙的传人》，竟然是作者不满美国与中国台湾当局“断交”所写的歌？
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00:00 [Music]
00:07 I believe you are not unfamiliar with this song, right?
00:10 But it was not sung by Wang Lihong, but by Taiwanese musician Hou Dejian,
00:14 who composed the song at the end of 1978.
00:17 The lyrics are so touching that it makes people feel like they are boiling with passion.
00:19 After all, in the hearts of Chinese,
00:21 the dragon is a national totem and is regarded as a symbol of good luck.
00:25 But think about it, if you travel through the Chinese Empire,
00:28 would you dare to call yourself the "descendant of the dragon"?
00:31 In ancient times, the emperor was known as "the real dragon emperor".
00:34 The dragon is a symbol of the imperial family.
00:35 Only the emperor could wear a dragon robe to perform the dragon ritual.
00:38 And in the Qing Dynasty, the dragon inscription on the dragon robe clearly stipulated
00:42 that only the emperor was a "five-legged dragon".
00:44 The ministers could only use "four-legged dragon" to call themselves.
00:48 So if you are just an ordinary citizen,
00:50 you walk on the street and shout, "I am the descendant of the dragon!"
00:53 At the end, you can imagine that the nine tribes of the Bu Zhu secretly laughed.
00:57 So how did the dragon descendant come from?
01:00 According to the information I found,
01:02 it is very likely to be related to the song "Descendant of the Dragon".
01:05 I was surprised when I found out.
01:08 It turned out that "Descendant of the Dragon" is a song with a very political color.
01:11 According to my understanding, the original author Hou Dejian
01:13 wrote this song because he was dissatisfied with the U.S. and the Taiwan Nationalist Party's government
01:17 for not making diplomatic relations with China.
01:20 But who knows, after a lot of twists and turns,
01:21 through Chinese media propaganda,
01:23 it eventually became a patriotic song with a very high popularity.
01:26 In 1988, Hou Dejian himself even went to the Spring Festival Gala
01:29 and sang "Descendant of the Dragon" in person.
01:32 But apart from the political side,
01:34 I have to admire the propaganda skills.
01:36 It's really great.
01:37 Now the title "Descendant of the Dragon"
01:39 has become a symbol of the cohesion of the Chinese nation.
01:42 As for whether to call himself the "Descendant of the Dragon",
01:44 it's up to you to judge for yourself.
01:47 Descendant of the Dragon
01:51 [BLANK_AUDIO]