Teresa Teng-the 20^thcentury Chinese POP Music Milestone Landmark

Teresa Teng was a legendary pop singer in mainland of China in the 20thcentury, she created an“Teresa era”with her beautiful songs, she played animportant role in the Chinese mainland pop music, she was the most popularsinger in the early period of the reform and opening up, her songs are mainly lovesongs, the contents are usually about our daily life, her songs sound emotional andeasily arouse people’s common feelings.Her early songs are started as folk music, for example“country roads”,“Feng Yang Flower Drum”, afterwards she did some remixed songs about the OldShanghai period like“cordate telosma”,“when will you return”and also some“crying”style in Japanese songs like“crying rain drops”,“empty harbor”, theAmerican and Japanese style are essential parts of her own singing style. She used“breath singing”and“trill singing”skills to form her own“tune zone uniting”,“freestyle high tunes”,“enunciate clearly”singing features.Teresa Teng’s songs have a strong influence on the Chinese mainland popmusic, firstly, her songs have both features of Old Shanghai and New age pop, hersongs are the bridge of old and new music in Chinese history; secondly, hersinging style has an instructional influence on the first generation of pop singersin mainland of China, pop singers in mainland of China succeeded and recreatedthe“Teng style”; thirdly, her songs inspired the Chinese modern pop singers ofhow we are going to face the world in the future, this is the question whichChinese pop singers should think about.