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Xishan Conference. In 1980, some veteran musicians held a seminar in Beijing dedicated to the current popular music orientation, called the "Xishan Conference." At the meeting, some experts expressed a negative view of Hong Kong and Taiwan music represented by Teresa Teng, saying that its softness and weakness are music with low-level tastes that reflect decaying decadence. At the same time, critics of the famous Mainland musicians Zhang Yiji, Wang Yan and Li Guyi's "Lianxiang". At this meeting, Teresa Teng's songs were officially dubbed "yellow songs" and "extreme sound".

Xishan Conference

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Xishan Conference. In 1980, some veteran musicians held a seminar in Beijing dedicated to the current popular music orientation, called the "Xishan Conference." At the meeting, some experts expressed a negative view of Hong Kong and Taiwan music represented by Teresa Teng, saying that its softness and weakness are music with low-level tastes that reflect decaying decadence. At the same time, critics of the famous Mainland musicians Zhang Yiji, Wang Yan and Li Guyi's "Lianxiang". At this meeting, Teresa Teng's songs were officially dubbed "yellow songs" and "extreme sound".

Thirty years later, in the era of rapid development of material life and unprecedented opening of spiritual life, when we look back at Teresa Teng again, her singing voice is nothing more than a pure woman, with a sweet and gentle true nature. However, in the era when culture was poor and emotions were closed, there were manifested music and singing in the form of political declarations. The quiet appearance of Teng Lijun's quietly lyrical songs blurs the political stance, exaggerates personal emotions, and evokes the long-asleep warmth and beauty in people's hearts, allowing people to have free breathing air and soil . Therefore, the lyrical songs and singing voices represented by Teresa Teng naturally became a special symbol in that special era, representing the liberation of human imprisonment.