The Moon Represents My Heart (月亮代表我的心)

This song was quite a coup in fighting the loveless, lifeless, militancy of Communist Chinese music in the 1970s when it became popular there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Represents_My_Heart

The lyrics were written by Sun Yi (孫儀) and music by Weng Ching-hsi (翁清溪). Like many writers, Sun Yi sold his lyrics to a publisher and never saw a cent of the royalties when it became famous.

Here are the lyrics with pinyin and translation:
https://www.sinosplice.com/learn-chinese/the-moon-represents-my-heart

More details about the mid-Autumn Festival:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival

I love this recording of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiIAb-80JlM

This cover ( @RobynnAndKendy ) is also beautiful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w80OY1Sm_sY

To an English reading, the translated title of this song doesn't make much sense. But if you understand that in China the moon culturally stands for 'longing for your home town', and that 'represent' is used in the sense of 'to stand for or to be a stand-in for something' then it could be read as 'My heart longs for your like I long for my home town'. See this famous poem on the moon by Li Bai:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Night_Thought

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#月亮代表我的心

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