The lyricist of the song "Looking at the Mountains, Waters and China" is Wang Xiaoling.
Wang Xiaoling, a famous lyricist, first-level screenwriter, and civilian general. Enjoy special government subsidies from the State Council. A native of Dingzhou, Hebei Province. Enlisted in the army in 1969. Since 1984, he has been engaged in composition in the Comrades Song and Dance Troupe of the Beijing Military Region.
He has successively served as the leader of the Comrades Song and Dance Ensemble of the Political Department of the Beijing Military Region, a director of the Chinese Musicians Association, the vice chairman of the Chinese Music and Literature Society, and the chief editor of the Ci Magazine of the Chinese Musicians Association. Served as a judge for the CCTV Youth Singing Competition.
Main song lyrics include: "Soldiers", "Let's Dance", "Sunshine Road", "Rain and Wind", "Hymn to the Motherland", "Sisters in the Army", "Night Fades" ", "Shenzhen Love", "When That Day Comes", "New Era Female Soldier", "The Radio Wave That Will Never Die" and many other popular music works.
The creative background of the song "Looking at the Mountains, Waters and China":
On the eve of the 2017 Spring Festival, the Spring Festival Gala director team sent an invitation to the lyricist Wang Xiaoling to work. At first, he planned to work as a tour guide However, after the lyrics were created, they were rejected by the Spring Festival Gala director team because the lyrics were too specific.
Later, he discovered "watching lanterns", an activity with traditional Chinese cultural connotations and symbolic meanings, and decided to use it to express his love for the motherland, and successfully completed the lyrics.
After the completion of the song creation, the composer Hu Tingjiang combined the three requirements of the Spring Festival Gala director team: "humor", "flavor of the year" and "sense of progress", and finally decided to use Chinese musical language to construct this song - —The melody adopts the pentatonic mode, and the arrangement emphasizes the characteristics of national musical instruments.