Listen to Shirley Singing the Poem in Chinese July 18, 2010Listen to Shirley Singing the Poem in English July 18, 2010Listen to Shirley Explaining the Poem & Follow Me to Read It ( March 12,2012)Follow Shirley to Read the New Words & the Poem ( March 12,2012)Learn the Meaning of the Poem & It Created BackgroundSee Shirley Created Paintings for the Poem May 31- June 3, 2012See Shirley Created Paintings for the Poem Feb 26- March 1, 2012See Shirley Created Paintings for the Poem July 19,2010This is my 64th
Combined Paintingthat I have created / painted for Chinese Classical Poetry, and
my 674th painting since 2003 ; also, it is my 50th assignment in Chinese National Academy of Arts.
This is the second time I painted a new painting to match the poem Chi Le Ge - Chi Le Song by Hu Lǜjin Fu in the Southern and Northern Dynasties ( 420 -589) .
I worked on it with a serious cold last week, for I wanted to re-write the music, re-translated the poem and re-sing it, therefore, I just put it on the web site tonight.
After I completed it, my tutors gave me a same directions -- I should reduce something on the painting; it's better to be divided to be two paintings; the constructor was not good yet...
I did feel they have pointed something I must improve; therefore, I will try to create a new one latter.
Below is the translation of the poem and it has been checked and corrected by Mr. Mike J from Britain and Mrs. Xiaogang Z. from China. It will be checked by another English tutor from USA once more before I enter in the recording studio.
The Main Meaning of the PoemChi Le Song
By by Hu Lǜjin ( Southern and Northern Dynasties 420 -589)
Chi le plain,
Lies at the foot of the Yinshan Mountains,
The sky is like domed yurt, enveloping the earth.
The dark-green heavens are vast, the wilds boundless.
When the wind blows the grass low,
The cattle & sheep appear there...
Chinese Characters and Pronunciations You can clink any Chinese Character to open the New Character Board and to see its Chinese pinyin, meaning, pronunciation and follow me to read it, also, you can hit the links over to enter the Painting Column,or you can directly enter the art notes on the painting that I created for this poem to see my painting and art notes for the poem 敕勒歌
敕勒川 - Chì lè chuān，
阴山下 - yīn shāng xià。
天似穹庐 - tiān sì qióng lú,
笼盖四野 - lǒng gài sì yě 。
天苍苍 - Tiān cāng cāng,
野茫茫 - yě máng máng，
风吹草低见牛羊 - fēng chuī cǎo dī xiàn niú yáng。
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, welcome to write to
shirley@ebridge.cn or
shirleyz004@yahoo.com ,you can also publish your opinions on
Message Board . :-)
--Shirley Zhang March 11, 2012
