 This genre was started by a group of students (mainly secondary schools, junior colleges and polytechnics), who were influenced by "minyao" (民谣), a Taiwanese folk songs movement in the 1970s, school campus songs (校园民歌) from Taiwan.The Taiwanese folk genre sought an authentic native Taiwan identity exemplified by songs such as "Grandma's Penghu Bay" (外婆的澎湖湾).The rise in popularity of the school campus song movement (校园民歌) especially among the Chinese students and schools came at a time of major education reforms led by then Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Mr Goh Keng Swee which sought to streamline and align Chinese education into the national syllabus, which can be interpreted as an spontaneous reaction to assert identity against these change.