Jiang Kairu and Ye Xuquan personally experienced great changes in special economic zones. They enthusiastically praised the reform and opening-up policy formulated by Deng Xiaoping and the great changes brought by the reform and opening-up to China by sketching, narrating and touching tone.
Wang Yougui, the composer of this song, adopted the tune of China folk music and created two important musical images with a peaceful, cordial and touching music as the theme. One is the image of Deng Xiaoping's leader, and the other is the image of popular music that worships the leader. These two images appear alternately, using the contrast of range, timbre, tone and tonality to show an epic picture with great momentum.
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Story creation background of spring:
1992, the lyricist of this song, Jiang Kairu, saw a long short message "Spring in the East" in the newspaper, reporting the rapid development of Shenzhen. So Jiang Kairu wanted to see Shenzhen on the spot and went to Shenzhen alone.
Jiang Kairu, who arrived in Shenzhen, was infected by the scene before him, so he decided to stay in Shenzhen and found a job in an entrepreneur art troupe in Shenzhen. During this period, he had a feeling and wrote this song on the morning of 1992 12 16.
Because of Jiang Kairu's personal background, kindness, respect and gratitude to Deng Xiaoping, he called Deng Xiaoping "an old man" in his lyrics, and because when Jiang Kairu first arrived in Shenzhen, Shenzhen was surrounded by barbed wire, he described the creation of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone as "drawing a circle".
On March 7th, 1993, the lyrics of this song were published in Shenzhen Special Zone Daily. Jiang Kairu took a newspaper and asked the composer Wang Yougui to compose music. Wang Yougui refused on the grounds that the language format of the lyrics was difficult to express in music, but Jiang Kairu did not give up. He sends the lyrics to Wang Yougui every once in a while.
1994, Jiang Kairu found Wang Yougui again after learning that Guangdong Province would hold a youth song creation contest, and Wang Yougui recited the lyrics repeatedly in Xiang dialect, and gained inspiration in the process. An hour and a half later, they finished the first draft of The Story of Spring.
After the lyrics were written, Wang Yougui composed music for the lyrics and took part in the Guangdong Youth Song Creation Competition with his own works. Unfortunately, they failed, so they found Ye Xuquan, member of the Standing Committee of Guangdong Youth Federation. With the help of Ye Xuquan, the three men improved the song and submitted it directly to the jury of the Guangdong Youth Song Creation Competition for official release.