Chapter 5 Yang Zujun and the turning point of "Tamjiang-Xia Chao"

When "singing one's own song" is just an act of young people playing guitar and singing in the eyes of many people, few people are willing to face it. Among them, after the mid-1970s, young people in Taiwan were willing to give up their only Some benefits, in exchange for a social activity that I have unlimited expectations for on the land of Taiwan. ―――Yang Zujun, folk singer Yang Zujun, a student who participated in the Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences concert in December 1976, wrote an article "The Voice of Chinese People Singing Foreigners' Songs" after the "Coca-Cola Incident". She said:

I hope that we will be able to hear our own songs soon, and among those who work silently, I hope I can occasionally find one or two people who are heartbroken today and criticize "Why don't Chinese people sing Chinese songs"!I sincerely look forward to it! After Tamkang held the "Chinese Folk Ballad Concert" in 1977, Yang Zujun met Li Shuangze through Wang Jinping's introduction.After Li Shuangze's death, continuing Li Shuangze's concept of "singing his own songs" is, for Yang Zujun, "a call from the depths of life and a profound cultural reflection".

In 1978, Yang Zujun straddled the two routes of "Modern Chinese Folk Songs" and "Tamkang - "Summer Tide": on the one hand, she was a well-known singer among the many singers of the former, and attended several forums directly related to this camp At the meeting; on the other hand, he was the main singer of Li Shuangze's works after his death. In August, she launched a "Green Grassland Charity Concert", combining resources from all walks of life, combining the performance of modern folk songs with social service work for the first time.Through media reports, the concert became a news focus at the time, and even Kong Lingsheng, the head of the Police Department, took the initiative to call to express his concern, and dispatched police forces to help maintain order.

Since then, Yang Zujun devoted herself to the promotion of folk songs, and held concerts in colleges, factories, and local towns. Li Shuangze's works usually served as the finale, and ended with the chorus of everyone on and off the stage.The working class that Yang Zujun pays attention to is not involved in the folk song activities that are generally college students. Relying on face-to-face live singing as its channel of dissemination.These are all voluntary performances. Such promotional work has been carried out for about three years, and it was not until Yang Zujun was completely banned by the Kuomintang that he was forced to stop.

In 1978, when the end-of-year general election was suspended due to the severance of diplomatic relations between Taiwan and the United States, Yang Zujun sang "Break the Net" for Wang Tuo, who was running for the election. She said she didn't know this before.Later, Yang herself became a person who was completely banned by the electronic media: the competent authority of China Broadcasting Corporation ordered all programs not to play any songs she sang. In January of the following year, "Summer Tide" was banned. In May, Wang Jinping invited Yang Zujun to give a lecture on "American Folk Songs of the 1960s" in his class. Later, he was accused of spreading communist ideas through this speech and was fired.Yang Zujun was listed as a person with "problematic thinking" by the military, and her album released by Xinge in early 1979 was also fully withdrawn by the company shortly after it went on the market.In the early 1980s, Yang Zujun had no room to sing except in places of political opposition. The party and government banned all possible performances and communication channels for her by saying that "the Communist Party's united front tactics also used young people's songs as a medium." , Even going to the smallest community or neighborhood to sing is forbidden.According to Yang Zujun, because the intelligence and governance unit was "unprofessional" and the implementation of official documents was slow, she could still do it for three years.

In this way, the folk song movement along the line of "Tamkang-"Summer Tide" has lost its space, and everything from songs to singers has been isolated from the cognition of the general public in daily life.