Lyrics: Wen Yiduo
Composer: Li Haiying
Singing: Rong Yunlin
Lyrics:
You know "Marko" is not my real name,
I've been away from you for too long, mom!
But what they took was my body,
You still have my soul.
You know "Marko" is not my real name,
I've been away from you for too long, mom!
But what they took was my body,
You still have my soul,
The biological mother who dreamed for 300 years,
Please call your son's name and call me Macau!
Mom! Mom! I want to come back, mom!
You know "Marko" is not my real name,
I've been away from you for too long, mom!
But what they took was my body,
You still have my soul.
The biological mother who dreamed for 300 years,
Please call your son's name and call me Macau!
Mom! Mom! I want to come back, mom! Mom!
You know "Marko" is not my real name,
I want to come back, come back.
Mom!
Extended data:
Writing background:
The simple, sincere and touching theme song in the large-scale TV documentary "Macau Years" aroused strong response from the audience. After listening to this song, everyone burst into tears and regarded it as the "theme song" to welcome Macao's return.
But many people don't know that the lyrics of this song are not a new work written for the return of Macao. It is the first of a group of poems called Song of Seven Sons over 70 years ago, written by Wen Yiduo, a late professor, famous patriotic scholar and poet in Tsinghua University.
When writing this group of poems, Wen Yiduo was studying in new york Art Institute. After living in the United States for nearly three years, he has personally experienced the humiliation of racial discrimination many times, and what he saw and heard aroused his strong national pride. Coupled with the experience of leaving his hometown for three years, he became more attached to his motherland and hometown, and also deepened his understanding and love for national traditional culture.
Therefore, during this period, he wrote a lot of patriotic poems, on the one hand, remembering and praising the motherland, on the other hand, expressing the curse to the imperialist powers. This group of songs of Qizi was born under this background. The day after writing Song of Seven Sons, Wen Yiduo called it "the voice of nationalism" in his letter to his good friend Liang Shiqiu.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Macao Return Day
Baidu Encyclopedia-Song of Seven Sons in Macau