Shirley Created Music For Chinese Classical Poem-0048锛欽ue Ju -- Two Yellow Birds Are Singing on the Jade Green Willow

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This morning, when I was running around the Shenzhen Sport Center in the breeze, when a bird was flying over my head, I got an idea to write a piece of music for a Chinese classical poem Jue Ju by Tang Dynasty(618 - 907) poet Du Fu (712-770).

It is the second Chinese classical poem that I had introduced for you last May. Then, I just founded my little web site and I had no a database, an edition system, a new words board, and also I had not started to write any music to match it yet. So, since last weekend, I have started to re-edit the first poems and to write music for them. I do hope that the quality of my work will be improved along with time and my work.   

Jue Ju is a kind of traditional Chinese poems with 5 or 7 words every line, it requires the words in two lines should be opposite on part of speech, meaning, even color and so on.

You see:

Two yellow birds are singing on the green willow,
a line of egrets is flying up to the blue sky.
Looking out of the window,
the snow lies on the western mountains for a thousand years,
Seeing through the gate,
there are the ships from the eastern land of Wu.

Two vs. One, Yellow vs. White, Singing vs. Flying, Green Willow vs. Blue Sky;

Numeral vs. Numeral, Adjective vs. Adjective, Verb vs. Verb, Noun vs. Noun.

When we read them we can not only enjoy the beautiful landscape that the poet have painted for us, but also, we can enjoy the wonderful rhythm of the language...

Du Fu is one of the greatest poets in Tang Dynasty and Chinese poetry history. He has a same reputation as Li Bai. Usually, people said that Li Bai鈥檚 poetry is more Romantic and Du Fu鈥檚 is more realistic. People thought that Du Pu鈥檚 poetry has more meaning than Li Bai鈥檚. Anyway, for me, I more like Li Bai鈥檚 and I feel most of Du Fu鈥檚 poems are too sadness. I think, maybe for Li Bai lived in the strongest times of Tang Dynasty, but, Bu Fu lived in the times that Tang was down from the Strong.   

About Du Fu, you can hit any Chinese Character below, to read something about him on the New Words Board.

I wrote a piece of music to match it and hope you enjoy it and to help your ears to understand Chinese.

MAIN MEANING OF THE POEMLISTEN TO SHIRLEY PLAY & SING THE POEM

Two yellow birds are singing on the green willow,
a line of egrets is flying up to the blue sky.
Looking out the window,
the snow lies on the western mountains for a thousand years,
Seeing through the gate,
there are the ships from the eastern land of Wu.

NEW WORDS AND RONUNCIATION :

Please hit any Chinese character that you need help with, to see its Chinese pinyin, pronunciation, and meaning and follow me to read it.


CHINESE CHARACTERS LISTEN TO SHIRLEY PLAY & SING THE POEM :

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鏉滅敨   锛� 鍞� 锛�

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绐楀惈瑗垮箔鍗冪�嬮洩锛�
闂ㄦ硦涓滃惔涓囬噷鑸广��


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--Shirley
Written, Sung, Translated and Recorded on Sun, Sep 25, 2006