I Love Beijing Tiananmen

"I Love Beijing Tiananmen" (formerly written "I love Peking Tiananmen") (Chinese: 我爱北京天安门; pinyin: Wǒ ài Běijīng Tiān'ānmén), is a children's song written during the Cultural Revolution of China.

The lyrics to the song were written by Jin Guolin, a 12-year-old student who was in 5th grade in 1970, and the composer was Jin Yueling, a 19-year-old apprentice from Shanghai Sixth Glass Factory.

[citation needed] The first three measures of the chorus of this song were used repeatedly as background music in Hong Kong 97, an infamous bootleg Super Famicom game released in 1995.

[2] The game, whose plot involved the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, had a strong anti-communist sentiment, and therefore, the song was used sarcastically.

我爱北京天安门, 天安门上太阳升; 伟大领袖毛主席, 指引我们向前进。 Wǒ ài Běijīng Tiān'ānmén, Tiān'ānmén shàng tàiyáng shēng; Wěidà lǐngxiù Máo zhǔxí, Zhǐyǐn wǒmen xiàngqián jìn.