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* 燒肉粽 (閩南/福建語)

* 祖母的話 (閩南/福建語)

* 天黑黑 (閩南/福建語)

* 高山青/原鄉情濃 /再見我的愛人

* Girl of South Sea

* 緑島小夜曲

* 她的眼睛像月亮

* 風從那裡來

* 夜來香

* 美酒加咖啡

* 何日君再來

* 你在我心中

* 海韻

* 誰來愛我

* 不了情

* 在水一方

* 千言萬語

* 月亮代表我的心

* 我只在乎你

* 恰似你的溫柔

* 梅花

* 小城故事

* 但愿人长久

* 甜蜜蜜

* 淚的小雨

* 忘記他 (in Cantaonese)

* 空港 (in Japanese)

* 愛人 (in Japanese)

* 星月淚痕 (in Japanese)

* Mimpi Sedih (in Indonesian)

* Dayung Sampan (Tian Mi Mi in Indonesian)

* Indonesian Boat Song

* Ayo Mama - An Indonesian folk song

* More Than I Can Say (in English)

* I Just Called To Say I Love You (in English)

* Endless Love (in English)

In the 1996 Hong Kong film Comrades: Almost a Love Story (甜蜜蜜; video), directed by Peter Chan, the life and death of Teresa Teng is featured as a subplot to the main story.

Articles

* Pop diva Teresa Teng Lives on in Chinese Hearts by China Daily

* Why Teresa Teng Could Not Visit Mainland China by Zhao Lei

Excerpts from Wikipedia.org

Teresa Teng (January 29, 1953 – May 8, 1995) (鄧麗君), sometimes spelled as Teresa Tang or Teresa Deng, was a legendary and influential C-pop singer from Yunlin County, Taiwan. She enjoyed immense popularity amongst all Chinese-speaking communities and in the rest of East Asia, particularly in Japan, for around 30 years. Teng was known for her folk songs and romantic ballads, which remain popular to this day.

She recorded many famous songs, including "When Will You Return?" (何日君再来). In addition to her Mandarin repertoire, she also recorded songs in Taiwanese, Cantonese, Japanese, Indonesian and English

Biography

Teresa Teng was born in a village in Yunlin County, Taiwan, to a mainland Chinese family originating from Hebei province. She was educated at Ginling Girls High School.

As a young child, Teresa possessed a singing voice that won her many awards at talent competitions. Her first major award was in 1964 when she sang "Visiting Yingtai" from Shaw Brothers' Huangmei opera movie, "The Love Eterne" (梁山伯与祝英台), at an event hosted by China Radio Station (Taiwan). Her singing proved successful and helped her family through the tough times of Taiwan's developing economy in the 1960s. To support her father, Teresa quit high school to pursue singing professionally.

In 1968, she became famous after giving a performance on a popular music programme in Taiwan, and released several albums within the next few years under the Life Records label. In 1973, she attempted to crack the Japanese market by signing with Polydor Japan records label, and taking part in Japan's Kōhaku Uta Gassen, a year-round singing match of the most successful artists of that year, and won the prize for "Best New Singing Star".

In 1974, with the song "Airport" (空港), she conquered Japan, where she remained a leading star despite a short exile in 1979 when she was deported for having entered on a fake Indonesian passport, bought for $20,000, a subterfuge rendered necessary by a break in relations between Taiwan and Japan on China's entry to the UN Security Council. Singing by now in Cantonese, Japanese and English as well as her native Mandarin, Teng was soon popular as far as Malaysia and Indonesia.

In 1983, she released her most-acclaimed album Light Exquisite Feeling (淡淡幽情). This album comprised 12 Ci poems from both the Tang and Song dynasties, set to a blend of modern Western and traditional Chinese music written by various composers, several of whom were involved in many of Teresa's previous albums. The most famous song from the album is "Wishing We Last Forever" (但愿人长久), best known to the current generation through the cover version by Faye Wong.

Teresa Teng's music is still well known today, throughout Asia and beyond. She was so popular that her music was banned for several years in Mainland China in the early 1980s for being too "bourgeois". Even though she had hoped to hold a concert in Tiananmen Square and was even publicly invited by the Chinese government, she would never have the opportunity to perform in China. She performed in Paris during the 1989 Tiananmen student uprising, singing for the students and proclaiming her support for them and for democracy. On May 27th, 1989, over 300,000 people gathered at the Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong for a gathering called "Democratic songs dedicated for China" (民主歌聲獻中華), where she performed the song "My home is on the other side of the mountain."

She sang many Japanese songs, including her own originals such as "Airport" (空港) and "I Only Care About You" (時の流れに身をまかせ or 我只在乎你), as well as some in tribute to original artists like Southern All Stars, most of which were re-written with Chinese lyrics.

Influence on Popular Culture

• Her songs were so popular in Chinese Karaoke bars that they bypassed mainland censorship, and it was said that "by day, Deng Xiaoping rules China, but by night, Deng Lijun rules."
• Teng's songs have been sung by other singers, most notably Faye Wong who released a tribute album (Decadent Sounds of Faye) consisting entirely of cover songs originally sung by Teresa Teng. Timi Zhuo is also known for singing her songs, and has been called her "second generation" because they both share the same soft voice and a similar singing style.
• In the 1996 Hong Kong film Comrades: Almost a Love Story (甜蜜蜜), directed by Peter Chan, the life and death of Teresa Teng is featured as a subplot to the main story.
• Her songs are played in various films, e.g. Rush Hour 2.
• In 2007, TV Asahi produced a tanpatsu (単発, TV movie), entitled Teresa Teng Monogatari (テレサ・テン物語) to commemorate the 13th anniversary of her death. Actress Yoshino Kimura starred as Teresa Teng.

Some of Her Most Popular Songs

• "When Will You Return?" This theme song was also unofficially used in Meteor Garden where Shan Tsai's mother (Tsukushi) sings the first few stanzas. This song was originally sung by the Shanghai songstress Zhou Xuan.
• "Endless Love" (Bu Liao Qing) This was a song originally sung by Koo Mei, who sang on behalf of the late actress Lin Dai in the movie with the same name (Bu Liao Qing); then popularized by Poon Sow Keng (another singer of the same generation as Lin Dai, Koo Mei, etc.) in about the mid-1960s. This song was covered by Tsa Chin, and a Cantonese version was sung by Anita Mui. The song was later given a rap interpretation by David Tao.
• "Wine Added to Coffee" This theme song was unofficially used in Meteor Garden II where a few stanzas are sung when Shan Tsai's father gets drunk after work.
• "As Gentle As a Breeze" (恰似你的温柔;lit: Just Like Your Tenderness; video), covering a song originally recorded by Tsai Chin (蔡琴; video).
• "A Small Wish" (一個小心願; video).
• "The Milky Way" (雲河; lit: Cloud River; video).
• "Fragrance of the Night" (夜來香; video).
• "How Would You Explain" (你怎麼說; lit: Let's See What You'll Say Today; video).
• "Raining on the East Mountain" (東山飄雨西山晴; lit: East Mountain Raining West Mountain Clear; video).
• "Don't pick the roadside flowers" (路邊的野花不要採; video) composed by a Malaysian songwriter, and released in 1973, Teresa's early songs (before her debut in Japan in 1974) were mainly dominated by Chinese-folk aura, although "acculturated" with modern instruments.
• "The Moon Represents My Heart" (月亮代表我的心; video) This song has been popularized by other artists like the late Leslie Cheung in the album Forever, Jerry Yan in the F4 concerts and Sammi Cheng with Jerry Yan in a duet. A fast version was sung by Linda Wong. The late Anita Mui sang this song as a tribute to Teresa Teng; she had also performed it as a duet with Andy Lau. A rap format was made by David Tao. This song was also translated into Filipino and sung by Zsa Zsa Padilla for the film Mano Po 2. Kim Chiu also sang her own version of the song. This remains her masterpiece (most popular song) since its release (1977) to this date. This song is popularly considered Teresa Teng's trademark.
• "Stroll on the Road of Life" (漫步人生路; video).
• "Your Sweet Smiles" (甜蜜蜜; lit: Sweet Honey Honey; video) This song was later used in Love Storm, sung by Leon Lai in a livelier format and by Machi Didi in a rap format. The late Roman Tam also sang this in tribute to Teresa Teng. Various sources have this song based on an Indonesian folk song.
• "On the Other Side of the Water" (在水一方; video). This song is later revived by Fahrenheit member Jiro Wang, used as theme in the show The X-Family.
• "Small Town Story" (小城故事; video).
• "Forget Him" (忘記他; video).
• "Do You Know Whom I Love" (你可知道我愛誰; video).
• "Thank You" (謝謝你; video).
• "Goodbye My Love" (再見我的愛人; video; Indonesian language: Selamat Tinggal Kekasih) This is Teresa Teng's most popular song in Indonesia. Teresa Teng recorded the Indonesian version of this song in 1977, translated by Indonesian composer A. Riyanto for her only album in Indonesian.
• "Wishing We Last Forever" (但願人長久/水調歌頭; video) A traditional poem, transformed into a song. Faye Wong later covered this song. Jolin Tsai also sang this song with Jay Zhou on piano.
• "How Many Worries" (几多愁/虞美人; video) Another poem turned into a song.
• "I Only Care About You" (我只在乎你; video; Japanese: 時の流れに身をまかせ (Toki-ni nagare-ni mi-o makase), "I Leave Myself in the Hands of The Flow of Time") She also sang this in a duet with Itsuki Hiroshi, and Jackie Chan, with a duet cover version of it released on one of his albums after her death, adding lyrics about her to honor her memory. Teresa's voice was mixed posthumously. Gigi Leung also released her own cover version of this song.
• "Fruit" (Japanese: 別れの予感).
• "To Live With You From Now On" (Japanese: あなたと共に生きてゆく) This was her last Japanese single. This song was re-sung by the song's lyricist Zard's Izumi Sakai in 2005. Surprisingly, the new version included music played by Erhu and contained Mandarin dialogues, in memory of Teng's 10th death anniversary.
• "Airport" or "Lover's Concern" (空港; video）or (情人的关怀): This was her first Japanese original hit, released on July 1, 1974. This song and album made Teresa's popularity in Japan — and probably throughout the rest of Asia, and the rest of the world.
• "The Night Ferryboat" or "You are in my Heart" (夜のフェリーボート; video) (你在我心中): This is another famous Japanese original song that was sung by various singers like Faye Wong.
• "Night in Hong Kong" (香港の夜) or (香港之夜; video).
• "Lover" (爱人; video).
• "Love Compensation" (償い) or (償還; video).

鄧麗君

鄧麗君（1953年1月29日－1995年5月8日），生於臺灣雲林縣褒忠鄉田洋村，祖籍為河北邯鄲大名縣鄧台村。鄧麗君起因形象高貴、親切，成熟令她逐漸成為80年代的華語樂壇和日本樂壇巨星的天王巨星。據目前統計鄧麗君的唱片銷售量已超過4800萬張 在《新中國最有影響力文化人物評選當中》，鄧麗君被選出港台最有影響力的藝人。

少年時期: 鄧麗君在家中排行第四，其父親是隨國民政府遷台的軍人。鄧麗君的家境並不富裕，鄧的父親於女兒出生後退役，舉家遷到臺東縣池上，五弟鄧長禧在1954年出生後搬到屏東市眷村，年幼受喜歡黃梅調電影的母親影響，對小調及歌仔戲感到興趣。1959年再移居臺北縣蘆洲鄉（今蘆洲市）眷村，並於蘆州國小唸書。小學時代的鄧麗君，不時利用課餘時間隨駐紮於學校附近的空軍93康樂隊到處勞軍表演，也曾參加僑大先修班的校內晚會演出，其歌唱天分亦漸露頭角。

1963年8月，10歲的鄧麗君參加中華電臺的黃梅調歌唱比賽，憑一曲「訪英台」奪得冠軍。1965年鄧麗君入讀私立金陵女中，利用課餘時間參加正聲廣播公司舉辦的歌唱訓練班。在1966年以「採紅菱」一曲奪得金馬唱片公司舉辦的歌唱大賽冠軍，其後獲得臺北東方歌廳的老闆賞識，邀請鄧麗君在課餘時間演唱，1967年正式加盟宇宙唱片公司，14歲灌錄第一張唱片《鳳陽花鼓》，當時正值流行歌曲在臺灣萌芽時期，她主唱的小調民歌更是大受歡迎。15歲獲邀在臺灣電視公司製作的歌唱節目「群星會」中表演，首次在電視螢光幕演出。

鄧麗君在1969年首次擔演電影《謝謝總經理》的女主角，電影由宇宙唱片公司為慶祝鄧麗君唱片銷售佳績而出資拍攝。同年，鄧麗君為中視拍攝的臺灣首部電視連續劇《晶晶》（1969年10月11日首播）主唱同名主題曲，旋即引起鬨動。1973年，鄧麗君獲臺北士林美國學校取錄為插班生，主修英文，完成她求學的夢想。

風靡大陸: 她的歌曲在中國大陸曾一度被稱為「靡靡之音」而被禁止。文化大革命結束之後，隨著錄音機進入百姓家中，鄧麗君的歌曲很快被傳唱。鄧麗君優美抒情的歌風，解凍了剛經歷文革冰封的大陸人民。改革開放後很快解禁，並風靡大江南北，在早期很多人使用兩個錄音機對錄她的歌曲，使之快速傳播。

1980年代她成為流行音樂的標誌，她的風格也讓她在大陸擁有了廣泛的歌迷，連當時文化部部長劉忠德都是她的歌迷。她的一曲曲柔和的佳音拉近了兩岸人民的心，因此鄧麗君在海峽兩岸齊名。在大陸鄧麗君贏得「小鄧」的美譽，和當時的中共實際領導人鄧小平（老鄧）一起成為老百姓熟悉的名字，並流傳著：「白天聽老鄧，晚上聽小鄧」、「只愛小鄧，不愛老鄧」

鄧麗君對剛剛開始的中國大陸流行音樂也有著深遠的影響，1980年代初期的數位大陸女歌手，也都以模仿鄧麗君的風格而起家，如：李谷一、朱明瑛、程琳等都有「大陸的鄧麗君」之稱。1988年中國大陸的中央電視台向鄧麗君發出了參加第四屆海峽之聲音樂會的邀請，此前春節聯歡晚會的導演組也多次運作邀請她參加，但都沒有成行。

政治傾向: 由於鄧麗君的父親曾在中華民國國軍服務，鄧麗君生前參加多場勞軍演出，演唱過《梅花》 (video)，《中華民國頌》 (video) 等代表中華民國獲得了「愛國歌手」、「軍中情人」等等的稱號。直到1991年，年屆38歲並漸漸淡出歌壇的鄧麗君仍然前往前線勞軍演出。

以下為鄧麗君在金門前線馬山觀測所時，向大陸的喊話：

據鄧麗君的弟弟鄧長禧表示，鄧麗君最大的心願就是能踏上祖國大陸的土地，在天安門廣場上舉行大型演唱會，為每一位華人帶去好聽的歌曲。正在大陸之行提上日程之時，1989年北京發生六四天安門事件。為了支援中國大陸的學生，人在英屬香港的鄧麗君不顧周圍人的反對，作為歌手參加了抗議集會。1989年5月27日，在香港跑馬地有30萬人的《民主歌聲獻中華》的活動中，她頭頸上掛了一塊牌子，上面手書「反對軍管」，演唱了《我的家在山的那一邊》 (video) 歌曲。據說當時負責轉播的無綫電視為免惹怒北京，多次刻意在鏡頭上遷就，避免她的牌子在鏡頭前出現。由於天安門事件，鄧麗君說過：「我回大陸演唱的那一天，就是三民主義統一中國的那一天」。堅持在中國大陸實現民主之前，將永不踏入大陸…；失去了作為歌手的夢想和期望的鄧麗君，離開香港去了法國，開始了巴黎的生活。當時中國的很多民主運動人士也到了巴黎，對鄧麗君來說巴黎是一個令人喜歡的城市。

Hebei

Hebei (河北) is a northern province of the People's Republic of China. The name Hebei means "north of the (Yellow) River". Zhili (直隸), meaning "Directly Ruled (by the Imperial Court)", was the name of Hebei before 1928.

It borders Liaoning to the northeast, Inner Mongolia to the north, Shanxi to the west, Henan to the south, and Shandong to the southeast. Bohai Bay of the Yellow Sea is to the east. A small part of Hebei, an exclave disjointed from the rest of the province, is wedged between the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin. Most of central and southern Hebei lies within the North China Plain.

The population is mostly Han Chinese with minorities of Mongol, Manchu, and Hui Chinese.

Plains in Hebei were the home of Peking man, a group of Homo erectus that lived in the area around 200,000 to 700,000 years ago. Neolithic findings at the prehistoric Beifudi site date back to 7000 and 8000 BCE.

During the Spring and Autumn Period (722 BC - 476 BC), Hebei was under the rule of the states of Yan (燕) in the north and Jin (晉) in the south. Also during this period, a nomadic people known as Dí (狄) invaded the plains of northern China and established Zhongshan (中山) in central Hebei. During the Warring States Period (403 BC - 221 BC), Jin was partitioned, and much of its territory within Hebei went to Zhao (赵).

The Qin Dynasty unified China in 221 BC. The Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) ruled the area under two provinces (zhou), Youzhou Province (幽州) in the north and Jizhou Province (冀州) in the south. At the end of the Han Dynasty, most of Hebei came under the control of warlords Gongsun Zan in the north and Yuan Shao further south; Yuan Shao emerged victorious of the two, but he was soon defeated by rival Cao Cao (based further south, in modern-day Henan) in the Battle of Guandu in 200. Hebei then came under the rule of the Kingdom of Wei (one of the Three Kingdoms), established by the descendants of Cao Cao.

After the invasions of northern nomadic peoples at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the chaos of the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern and Southern Dynasties ensued. Hebei, firmly in North China and right at the northern frontier, changed hands many times, being controlled at various points in history by the Later Zhao, Former Yan, Former Qin, and Later Yan. The Northern Wei reunified northern China in 440, but split in half in 534, with Hebei coming under the eastern half (first the Eastern Wei; then the Northern Qi), which had its capital at Ye (鄴), near modern Linzhang, Hebei. The Sui Dynasty again unified China in 589.

During the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907) the area was formally designated "Hebei" (north of the Yellow River) for the first time. During the earlier part of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, Hebei was fragmented among several regimes, though it was eventually unified by Li Cunxu, who established the Later Tang Dynasty (923 - 936). The next dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty under Shi Jingtang, posthumously known as Emperor Gaozu of Later Jin, ceded much of modern-day northern Hebei to the Khitan Liao Dynasty in the north; this territory, called The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, became a major weakness in China's defense against the Khitans for the next century, since it lay within the Great Wall.

During the Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1127), the sixteen ceded prefectures continued to be an area of hot contention between Song China and the Liao Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty that came after abandoned all of North China, including Hebei, to the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) in 1127.

The Mongol Yuan Dynasty divided China into provinces but did not establish Hebei as a province. The Ming Dynasty ruled Hebei as "Beizhili" (北直隸), meaning "Northern Directly Ruled", because the area contained and was directly ruled by the imperial capital, Beijing; the "Northern" designation was used because there was a southern counterpart covering present-day Jiangsu and Anhui. When the Manchu Qing Dynasty came to power in 1644, they abolished the southern counterpart, and Hebei became known as "Zhili", or simply "Directly Ruled". During the Qing Dynasty, the northern borders of Zhili extended deep into what is now Inner Mongolia, and overlapped in jurisdiction with the leagues of Inner Mongolia.

The Qing Dynasty collapsed in 1912 and was replaced by the Republic of China. Within a few years, China descended into civil war, with regional warlords vying for power. Since Zhili was so close to Peking (Beijing), the capital, it was the site of frequent wars, including the Zhiwan War, the First Zhifeng War and the Second Zhifeng War. With the success of the Northern Expedition, a successful campaign by the Kuomintang to end the rule of the warlords, the capital was moved from Peking (Beijing) to Nanking (Nanjing). As a result, the name of Zhili was changed to Hebei to reflect that fact that it had a standard provincial administration, and that the capital had been relocated elsewhere.

The first half of the 20th century saw China plunged into a period of disunity and civil wars that divided the country into two main political camps - the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC). The war ended in 1949 with the establishment of the People's Republic in mainland China by the victorious Communists while the retreating Nationalists set up the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan.

Taiwan's Glory * 台灣之光 * Taiwan's Glory