Which singer in Hong Kong music scene has a song or an album that you will never forget after listening to?

"The Yangtze River, the Great Wall, Huangshan Mountain and the Yellow River are heavy in my heart", "The Great Wall will never fall down, and the Yellow River is thousands of miles long, with beautiful mountains and rivers and colorful peaks", "The grass is everywhere, the desert is boundless, and it is not afraid of ice and snow", "The waves are rushing, and the rivers and mountains in Wan Li are endless" ... These songs have been deeply rooted in the blood of China people, which can make all China people, regardless of region.

In 1950s and 1960s, a group of mainland songwriters and singers laid a solid foundation for Hong Kong's early music career. The theme song of the same name created by Liang and Li Juanqing for the film "Romantic Kyushu" is still widely circulated today. Wang Fuling's famous works, which immigrated from Shanghai to Hong Kong, include Be Careful Tonight, A Night Bell in Nanping, Diamonds, Sweet Talk, My China Heart and Under the Lion Mountain.

In the 1970s, with the awakening of the "Hong Kong Spirit", a generation of Hong Kong youths who grew up in a difficult environment began to unite under the "Lion Mountain" and strive to create their own history as "China Hong Kong people" in a new identity, instead of being attached to colonial identity. It is inspired by this spirit that grounded Cantonese pop music was born quickly.

Samuel Hui initiated the era of Cantonese pop music, and his songs represented the aspirations of the grassroots and contributed sweat and tears to the rise of Hong Kong. Tan, who has a profound knowledge of Cantonese opera, combines Cantonese opera singing with pop music and performs on the same stage with famous singers such as Guan, Wang, Wang and Wang.

In the 1980s and 1990s, in the torrent of reform and opening up, Hong Kong was full of vitality, and Hong Kong music also ushered in its heyday. Gu Jiahui, Huang Zongxi, Zheng Guojiang, Lu Guozhan and other Hong Kong music masters also came into being. With the passage of time, the styles of Hong Kong music have become more and more inclusive, ranging from majestic to exquisite, from big to fresh, and any social realistic theme such as life, work, love, marriage and family can be integrated into it.

The prosperity of Hong Kong's economy and culture and the improvement of its international status, in turn, pushed Hong Kong's music to break through the geographical restrictions of dialects, became famous at home and abroad, and left its own name in the history of world music. Zheng Guojiang, a historical witness of Hong Kong music, recalled the golden age of Hong Kong music and said, "At that time, we passed on the efforts, persistence and tolerance of China people to the whole world through songs."

Leslie Cheung, Alan Tam, Anita Mui, Danny Chan, George Lam, Jacky Cheung, Liming, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, Ye Qianwen, Coco Lee ... these glamorous and radiant stars have moved from the stage of Hung Hom Stadium to Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea and even the whole world.

This is an era when China pop music plays a worldwide role in Hongkong, with strong and high-quality cultural output and international communication. Hong Kong has become the "Oriental Hollywood" under the impetus of endless superstars, polaroid, Sony, Warner and other record giants, as well as awards held by major media.

Hong Kong music entered the mainland a little earlier than the reform and opening up, about 1977. At that time, many tapes of Hong Kong pop music had entered Guangdong, Fujian and other places through various channels, and then went north. At the beginning of the reform and opening-up, the Hong Kong TV series, which was the world's Chinese film and television production center at that time, was introduced to the mainland, and the theme songs of the TV series "The Great Wall Never Falls", "Shanghai Beach", "Iron Blood and Red Hearts" and "Wan Shui Qian Shan is always in love" were widely circulated in the mainland.

After 1997, Hong Kong pop songs cooperated more with the mainland. Tayu Lo, a China pop musician who has influenced generations, shifted his focus from Hongkong to Beijing around 2000. Alan Tam, Hacken Lee, Liang Qiaobai, Nicholas Tse, Joey Yung, Miriam Yeung and many other Hong Kong singers, music creators and producers have long regarded the mainland as their main place of work, especially behind-the-scenes musicians such as Liang Qiaobai, who combine composition, lyrics, arrangement and music production to help mainland TV platforms create many phenomenal music variety shows. With their professional standards and accomplishments, they have been widely respected and recognized by mainland institutions and audiences, which has further promoted the development of pop music in China.

The works of the golden generation in Hong Kong's music scene have inspired mainland musicians born after 1970s and 1980s who have the most say in the field of cultural product creation. Many people have said on different occasions that they have been deeply influenced by Hong Kong music. "I remembered my youth of indulging in Cantonese songs." Li Jian, who is known as a "music poet", has mentioned many times on different occasions that he was nourished by Hong Kong culture when he was young. When his friends describe a person as fashionable, they will say that he is from Hong Kong, and the rich content and exquisite techniques of "Hong Kong Music" have brought him rich inspiration.