Ten popular songs that got people singing in 2016

Xu Wei: Live a More Than Desultory Life [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

8. Xu Wei: Live a More Than Desultory Life

As one of the most shared songs on Chinese social media platform WeChat in 2016, Live a More Than Desultory Life evoked strong feelings among the generations born in the 80s and 90s.

Initially released on March 8, 2016, the name of the song became one of the buzzwords on the internet. The song tries to encourage people to open their arms to beautiful poems and distant lands, to pursue their dreams and to live a rich life.