37 years ago today, on April 11, 1988 (February 25, 1988 lunar calendar), our country's young composer Su Cong won the Academy Award. On April 11, 1988, the feature film "The Last Emperor" co-produced by China, Italy and Britain won 9 awards at the Academy Awards ceremony held in Los Angeles. One of the best composers was our country's young composer Su Cong. He became the first Oscar winner in our country's history. Su Cong, 30, was born into a musical family, and his father, Su Xia, was a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music. Su Cong was influenced by music since childhood. In 1978, he was admitted to the Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music with excellent grades and studied under Professor Du Mingxin. After graduating in 1982, he studied at his own expense in the graduate class of composition at the Munich Conservatory of Music in West Germany. In 1985, he was admitted to the Department of Music of the Free University of West Berlin, where he is now studying for a doctorate in music theory. During his study abroad, his studies were heavy and time was tight. Su Cong studied and composed with a tenacious fighting spirit. In 1985, his "Liszt Piano Fantasia" won the second place in the International Piano Composition Competition in Hungary to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Liszt's death. The Ministry of Culture specially awarded him an honorary certificate of composition. His "Breaking Dawn" and "Concert Overture" have been performed by many famous orchestras in Europe and Asia. Su Cong's name is gradually known to more and more people. The composer of "The Last Emperor" originally did not have Su Cong. When he saw the news that he would be filming "The Last Emperor," a strong desire to create rose in his heart, so he sent his brief introduction and recordings of representative works to the crew and recommended himself as the film score. After comparing the works of some famous musicians, the crew sent a telegram inviting Su Cong to try it out. Su Cong rushed back to Beijing. During the creative process, he experienced hardships and joy. In order to make the music appropriate to the content of the film, he went to the Manchu Institute of the Palace Museum and the Beijing Library to read a lot of materials, and tried to make the 60-minute Chinese music section he created use modern creative techniques and expressive techniques to highlight the theme of national music. Su Cong's work made the director Bertolucci, who had always been very strict, very satisfied. On the night of the award, he called his parents from Los Angeles to report the news and feelings of the award, and said again: "If there was no motherland today, there would be no achievement of mine..."