The composition San Bao wrote for the film "Tea", the first feature film by young director Wu Bing, is quite different in style. Unlike his peers who preferred more sensational topics, Wu Bing chose elderly people and their feelings for the theme of his first work. The melodious and melancholic background music is perfectly in step with the message of the film.
"Paradise Lost" was the first Chinese TV series to deal with people suffering from the AIDS virus. It follows the life of a successful businessman who becomes HIV sufferer after receiving an infected blood transfusion. His career, his family and his relations with his friends are all affected by the accident, and the director of the series invited famous actors and actresses to take part.. San Bao was invited to write the music for the series.
Besides writing music for the TV series "Paradise Lost", San Bao also composed and wrote "Hold My Hand Tightly," the theme song for the play. The song goes; "A happy face, a sound night's sleep, I used to have these so easily, but suddenly I was told that the color of my life is was turning black with the endless night." Yang Kun, who sang the song, became well known about a year ago, as his hoarse voice and emotional performances have established him as an up-and-coming star on the Chinese pop scene.
San Bao describes himself as a pessimist, and most of his works are colored with traces of sadness. Even when he wrote a piece for the comic series "My Father Hong Qi", this characteristic still came through. The play features the simple but colorful life of insurance salesman Hong Qi. Li Xiandong sang the haunting lyrics to the theme song: "I want to fly high as a bird, I want to run on the rainbow; sometimes, tears come with laughter, but I always believe laughing is better than crying."
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