Inviting Tea Song is a red revolutionary song written in 1950s. This song was written by Wen Mangyan, a tea poet, in 1957. Later, Mr. Wen Manyan invited Xie, a female composer, to compose this poem. In the early 1960s, this song was sung by Zhu Fengbo, a singer, and became popular all over the country.
During the ten-year "Cultural Revolution", in order to cater to the political situation, the then Ministry of Culture asked all localities to revise a number of influential songs and report them to Beijing. Under this abnormal background, the lyrics of Tea Invitation Song were arbitrarily modified by others, and the name of the original poet Wen Mangyan was erased and spread to the society as the so-called "collective lyrics".
The tampered "Tea Invitation Song" basically changed the beautiful artistic aesthetic image originally from life into a slogan sentence. The most prominent defects are two points: first, it weakens the theme of the original words praising Jinggangshan revolutionary spirit and the glorious tradition of the Red Army, which goes against the original intention of praising the collective image of proletarian revolutionaries. The original book does not mention individual leaders, but focuses on the overall image of the "Red Army of that year" to reveal the theme. His deep affection for the leaders and the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries, and his perfect political and artistic realm come from the great efforts of Jiangxi poetry circles since the founding of the People's Republic of China, which is impeccable. Second, the change of lyrics obviously violates the basic principle that art comes from life. When the slogan was used indiscriminately, the tea tree in Jinggangshan was confused with the camellia oleifera ... and so on, which seriously damaged the true face of the song as a whole.
After the Cultural Revolution, Jiangxi Federation of Literary and Art Circles, based on the principle of seeking truth from facts, made corrections with the consent of relevant parties, restored the original features of the lyrics, and clearly signed "Wen Mang Yan Ci". Jiangxi Music Association came forward to re-record the original Tea Invitation Song and distribute it to the whole country.