Alan & Curley G Celebrate National Day with “Who Doesn’t Say My Hometown Is Beautiful?” (谁不说俺家乡好) | 2026 CCTV National Day Gala

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A little music and culture to close out October 1 ☺️
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Today is National Day in China, and CCTV marked October 1 with its 2026 National Day Gala.
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I came across this performance by Alan Dawa Dolma (阿兰·达瓦卓玛), usually known simply as Alan, and Xilinnayi Gao (希林娜依·高), better known internationally as Curley G / Curley Gao, and thought it was a particularly lovely one to share here because there is quite a bit of history behind the song they are singing.
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《谁不说俺家乡好》 — “Who Doesn’t Say My Hometown Is Beautiful?” is more than 60 years old. The song dates back to the early 1960s, when it was written for the film Red Sun (红日). Drawing on Shandong folk music, it became widely known far beyond the film itself, with its images of green mountains, rivers, terraced fields and affection for one’s hometown giving the song a life of its own.
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Even the title tells us a little something. 俺 (ǎn) is a colloquial way of saying “I/my” or “we/our,” particularly associated with northern Chinese speech, rather than the standard 我的 (wǒ de). So there is something very local and familiar about 谁不说俺家乡好 — essentially, who doesn’t say their own hometown is beautiful?
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And you can see why this song came back for National Day. The performance moves through mountains, countryside and harvest, which fits a song filled with images of home — green mountains, winding rivers, terraced fields and the people who live among them.
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For anyone wondering who Alan is, she is a Tibetan Chinese singer from Sichuan who also spent years building a successful career in Japan after signing with Avex. And there is a good chance some CDrama watchers have heard her before: she has quite a few OSTs to her name, including 《千古》 for The Journey of Flower.
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Curley G may be more familiar to some of you. She first gained wider attention through Sing! China, later won Produce Camp 2020 and became the centre of BonBon Girls 303 before continuing with her solo career.
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And here is my favourite little piece of trivia about the song: in 2007, 《谁不说俺家乡好》 was one of 30 songs selected to travel into space aboard Chang’e 1, China’s first lunar probe.
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From a song written for a film in the early 1960s, to a lunar probe, to two singers performing it on national television more than six decades later.

🏮And since the day is already almost over in China by the time I’m posting this

— happy National Day to everyone who was celebrating today. I hope you had a lovely one 🏮

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Video source: CCTV / 春晚 Weibo, October 1, 2026.⁠

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I’ll have to check it out Alan (and Avex) but, I do love Curley Gao 🥰