Beautiful vocals and impressive performer. Even if you only understand the name of the song, in your mind you can see a grassy plain swaying in the wind on a warm day.
This was the song that changed the singer's life :-) I just watched some CCTV program featuring Dedema 德德玛 yesterday (04 Feb), there she revealed that this song was monumental in elevating her solo singing career. Before singing this song in Guangdong, she was a duet singer in her singing & dancing troupe, and she's only brought along her troupe to the show in Guangdong Fair because the young Dedema begged for her participation, if not mistaken it's in 1979 or around that. After her impressive solo singing of this song there, followed by her bright performance of the same song in Beijing, her name rose to the national fame as well as this prairie song became quite popular throughout China and other Chinese communities around the world. It's hinted in the show that this song made the Inner Mongolia becoming well-known among the Chinese people. It's Dedema who popularized this song in the late 70s or early 80s. Knowing the history around this song, I shall cherish it even more... :-) let's all enjoy the green green vast prairie! *Meili de caoyuan wo de jia 《美丽的草原我的家》 (The Beautiful Grassland is My Home) - Dedema 德德玛*