On May 1-4, 2006, the Midi Music Festival held at Beijing Haidian Park became a paradise for young rockers from across the country as well as numerous foreigners. Since the Festival's first pageant in 2000, Chinese rock music has become increasingly diverse.

Although the past two decades is only a very short period in China's history, these years contain an overwhelming amount of passion, hesitation, joy and struggle. Rock music, a young and volatile import to China in the 1980s, subtly reflects the society's acute changes in a unique way.

Rock'n'Roll hasn't ever experienced such a phenomenon elsewhere as it has made in China.

 History

 Conception

Nothing to My Name

May 9, 1986

When Cui Jian, known as the godfather of Chinese rock music, in peasant clothing sporting uneven length trouser legs, hopped onto the stage with his worn out guitar at the Beijing Workers' Stadium, the puzzled audience had no idea this bedraggled-looking man was about to launch a music revolution.

The music began, and Cui belted out his latest composition "Nothing to My Name" in his unique style.

Off stage there was dead silence. When the song was over, the stadium burst into hoorays and applause. China's first rock star was born!