Formosa (The Beautiful Island) (Chinese: 美麗島; pinyin: Měilì dǎo; Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄇㄟˇ ㄌㄧˋ ㄉㄠˇ) is a Taiwanese folk song by Lee Shuang-tze (李雙澤).
The song was adapted from Chen Hsiu-hsi (陳秀喜)'s poem Taiwan by Liang Ching-fong (梁景峰) and is among the most famous of Lee's works.
However, in 1990 (three years after martial law was lifted in Taiwan), the general leader of the Wild Lily student movement melodiously sang it.
[3] In 2006, Million Voices against Corruption, President Chen Must Go (百萬人民倒扁運動) and Kimbo Hu [zh] led supporters in a rendition of "Formosa".
There was a protest on this event on Facebook by the indigenous people of Taiwan, who felt that the ceremony was full of Chinese chauvinism.