As the Mid-Autumn Festival drew closer, the weather grew increasingly stifling, with not a trace of the refreshing coolness promised by poetic lines like "When gold winds meet jade dews, they surpass earthly pleasures tenfold."
While Jiang Jinghuai was out of the house, Tian Sangsang sneaked into her private space to test out her singing. The space had air-conditioning, and once inside, she found it hard to leave. She had spent a lot of time deliberating over which song to choose but struggled to find one that could qualify both as a revolutionary anthem and something tied to Mid-Autumn themes. If it was purely about Mid-Autumn, there were plenty of options: "Fifteenth Moon," "The Moon Represents My Heart," "When Will the Moon Be Bright Again," and so on. Songs related to soldiers were even more abundant — "For Whom," "Green Flower of the Army," "We Who Serve," "Our Meeting Is a Song," and others. But ones combining both? Extremely rare.
