二手玫瑰 | en

二手玫瑰 (Pinyin romanization: Ershou Meigui, meaning: Second Hand Rose) is a Chinese band playing rock music with strong folk influences. Band leader Liang Long founded his first band in 1997 in Harbin, a city in the north-east of China. Second Hand Rose was founded three years later, this time Beijing, where Long decided to bring the spirit of traditional music of his native province of Heilongjiang. The witty and often derisive lyrics combined with Long's outfit (the frontman dresses as a woman and uses a lot of make-up during the concerts, much in the style of traditional Chinese opera) and...