"Tian Mi Mi" | |
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Single by Teresa Teng | |
from the album Tian Mi Mi | |
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Released | 20 September 1979 |
Recorded | 1979 |
Genre | Folk-pop |
Length | 3:31 |
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Lyricist(s) | Zhuang Nu |
"Tian Mi Mi" (Chinese: 甜蜜蜜; pinyin: Tián Mì Mì; literally "sweet honey") is a song recorded by Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng. It was first made available on 20 September 1979 and was later included on her Mandarin album of the same name, released through PolyGram Records in November of the same year. The song's lyrics were written by Zhuang Nu while the music was adapted from a 1940s Indonesian gambang kromong folk song about sampan boats, called "Dayung Sampan", by the pasindhèn Dasimah.
Teng recorded a Cantonese version of the song, titled "The Day I Met You", for her first Cantonese album, Irreconcilable (勢不兩立), which was released on 18 December 1980. "Tian Mi Mi" went on to achieve widespread popularity in the Sinophone world and remains one of Teng's most famous works. In 1996, the Hong Kong film Comrades: Almost a Love Story was released as a tribute to Teng, following her death a year prior, with the film's Chinese title named after "Tian Mi Mi".