摘要
IN 1987, the Fourth International Music Festival was held in Belgrade. When the Chinese song "The Green Leaves’s Love for the Root" was reverberating through the hall, the whole audience held their breath, listening attentively. This song not only moved all the people present but its approach of mode and the smooth and lyric melody left a deep impression on the adjudicators. As a result, this song won the third prize, the highest award any Chinese pop song had ever won at any international contest before 1987. The composer of this song is Gu Jianfen. Since the early 1980s, Gu Jianfen’s compositions have won her various awards in Chinese song contests. In 1985, five of her compositions won "Prize for Songs Favored
