Teresa Teng's popularity in the Chinese world surpasses all political, stylistic figures. In the past 40 years, her singing voice has changed from a glamorous voice to a Chinese classic, nourishing generations. However, the mainland's pursuit of Teresa Teng basically comes from the people, and the official attitude towards her has been vague, and CCTV did not report on her when she was alive. So why is this happening?

Teresa Teng was born in 1953 and became famous at a young age, and she was already a famous star in Taiwan in the 60s of the last century. At that time, the mainland's "cultural activities" were in full swing, and the two sides of the strait were in a state of complete isolation. Therefore, mainland audiences only heard Teresa Teng sporadically after the Cultural Revolution, and at that time, she had actually focused her career on Japan. From 1974 to 1977, Teresa Teng released a total of 8 albums and 12 solo single records in Japan, becoming a star in the entire Asia-Pacific region.

In the late '70s, mainland listeners heard Teresa Teng's singing mainly in two ways: eavesdropping on enemy stations and ripping tapes. In those days, with the exception of radio stations on the mainland, they were basically "enemy stations". And the mainland radio station does not broadcast any Teresa Teng songs, so listening to Teresa Teng = listening to the enemy station. Fortunately, after the Cultural Revolution, listening to enemy Taiwan was no longer a particularly big crime, and it was usually a criticism and education, at most a punishment, which was not the same as the risk of facing re-education through labor or even sentencing during the Cultural Revolution. It can be said that the reduction of the risk of listening to "enemy Taiwan" is an important reason for Teresa Teng's popularity.

Listening to Teresa Teng's songs through ripped tapes is the prerogative of the southern coastal provinces. Especially after the reform and opening up, exchanges at home and abroad have been increasing, so that Teresa Teng and other Hong Kong and Taiwan music tapes can come to the mainland by private carrying. At that time, there was not much awareness of copyright, and a copy of the original tape could be ripped hundreds of times, and each ripped tape would be listened to hundreds of times.

The reason why Teresa Teng suddenly became "popular" in that era. It is inseparable from its singing voice and lyric content. People who have been educated by model operas and revolutionary songs for decades have found that songs can still be sung like this? How can the lyrics be written like this? In an instant, people's imprisoned brains were opened up to a new horizon. And because the audience on both sides of the strait has not synchronized their appreciation of Teresa Teng's songs, dozens of good songs accumulated in Taiwan after ten years of dissemination have been "smashed" to mainland audiences at the same time, making everyone fall in love with this sound in a very short time.

However, those characteristics that make Teresa Teng popular have just become the reason why she was banned. Teresa Teng's love songs were quickly put on hats such as "yellow songs" and "glamorous sounds". Together with bell bottoms and toad glasses, it has become something that will "teach bad children" in the eyes of teachers and parents. And what raised Teresa Teng's songs to the height of "poisonous weeds" was the Xishan Conference of the Chinese Music Association in 1980.

The most fiercely criticized at the meeting was "He Rijun Comes Again". Because the word "Jun" is the same as Teresa Teng's name, now "He Rijun will come again" is often used to miss her concert or anthology name. At that time, "He Rijun Comes Again" was a typical "bad song", which could be criticized from both a yellow and reactionary point of view. Lyrics "Life can get drunk a few times, and if you are not happy, what should you do." After parting tonight, He Rijun will come again" is literally understood as a scene of a young man and his girlfriend reluctant to cling to each other, which belongs to "yellow"; The song was written in 1936. At the time of the Japanese invasion of China, "Jun" referred to the country, or rather, to the Kuomintang army, and "He Rijun will come again" has the meaning of "when to recover the lost territory". From this point of view, the title of the song coincided with the "counterattack on the mainland" advocated by the Kuomintang at that time, and it was also "reactionary". Such a "yellow and anti" song was criticized in an atmosphere of "red and dedicated".

In an era of cross-strait hostility, any well-known public figure will inevitably get involved in politics. As a singer in Taiwan. Teresa Teng, whose ancestral home is in Daming County, Handan City, Hebei Province, is not exempt from vulgarity.

Less than half a year after the mainland music industry held a meeting to criticize Teresa Teng, on October 4, 1980. Teresa Teng held a charity singing at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, and all the ticket proceeds were donated to the public welfare foundation. During the concert, the host asked Teresa Teng, I heard that there are many people in the mainland who want to invite you to sing in the mainland. Teresa Teng said: "If I go to the mainland to sing, then." The day I sang in the mainland was the day when our Three People's Principles were practiced in the mainland. The sentence recorded above is Teresa Teng's original words. It is conceivable that with this sentence at the bottom, it makes sense that Teresa Teng never held a concert in the mainland in her life.

If the "Three People's Principles" incident in 1980 was just a rhetoric, then the following year. Teresa Teng blocked her way to hold a concert in the mainland with practical actions.

In August 1981, Teresa Teng worked in Taiwan Province for a month, running all over the military camps, including the Kinmen front. He visited the officers and men of the national army on land, sea and air, and sang for them. Since then, Taiwan Television has produced and broadcast a television special called "Jun at the Outpost".

Acting stars go to the front line to work in the army, which is a form of military condolences that is being used by all countries. For example, on the battlefield of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, American movie star Monroe went to the US military camp to work in the army, while China's cross talk performance artist Hou Baolin participated in the labor army in the Chinese army camp, and these behaviors did not leave a heavy political imprint on them.

Teresa Teng participated in the labor army many times in the 70s. However, Teresa Teng in 1981 was already a superstar in the popular Chinese world, and it took a month to "walk through" the Taiwan military camp and go to Kinmen, a highly symbolic place to work for the army, which has a political meaning that is not the same as that of ordinary labor troops.

And she also issued a highly political shout on the other side of the strait in Kinmen, the following is the original text: "Dear mainland compatriots, hello, I am Teresa Teng." I am now coming to the radio station in Kinmen to broadcast to the compatriots on the coast of the mainland, and what I want to tell you today is that I am very happy to be able to stand in Kinmen, the first front line of the free motherland, and I feel very happy and very happy. I hope that our compatriots on the mainland can enjoy the same democracy and freedom as we do. Only in a living environment attached to freedom and democracy can one have the opportunity to realize one's ideals; Only when all young people can freely display their wisdom and talents will the future of the country be full of light and hope. I hope to be able to return to Kinmen soon and meet with the brothers in Kinmen. And, of course, talking to compatriots along the coast of the mainland. Here, I wish you all good health and long live democracy! Thank you! ”

Since then, Teresa Teng is not just a singer who sings "yellow songs" in the eyes of mainland officials, but a "yellow singer hostile to the mainland". Just imagine this kind of identity, how could the mainland not ban her? (To be continued.) )