Listen to Shirley Singing the Poem in English Dec 29 2011Listen to Shirley Singing the Poem in Chinese Dec 29, 2011Listen to Shirley Introducing This PoemFollow Shirley to Read the Poem & Chinese Characters Learn the Meaning of the Poem with Shirley Together See Shirley Created Picture & Calligraphy for the Poem Sep 2, 2007I created this painting on Sep 2, 2007 for matching a poem by a famous poet Chen Shen in Tang Dynasty (618-907).
This poem described the landscapes in the Northwest of China. It is a long poem with 18 lines. Its first 4 lines are the most famous for it has not only written a beautiful scenery after a snow in the August -- just like a spring breeze came blowing last night, so that thousands and thousands pear trees are in blossom, but also, it has expressed the quite positive and optimistic life attitude.
Therefore, I enjoyed it very much and tried to express a positive and delight breath via creating a painting, a piece of music and writing a comment about it in Sep 2, 2007.
Anyway, then, I had no the ability to sing it in English yet. So, after studying, thinking and exploration for many years, on Dec 29, 2011, I re-translated it, re-wrote the music and re-played, sang and recorded it in English and in Chinese.
Later, I will re-write the comments and re-record the Chinese characters and the comment.
I do hope that my effort will be some help with you to learn Chinese culture and language.
Main Meaning of the Poem :
White Snow Song
By Chen Shen ( Tang )
The north wind rolls & breaks the white grass
Snow is flying in Hu in August,
Like the spring breeze came blowing last night,
Suddenly ten thousand pear trees are in blossom.
CHINESE CHARACTERS AND PRONUNCIATION 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 them in Chinese, also, you can hit the links over to enter the Language Column, to read my comments about this poem白雪歌送武判官归京
北风卷地白草折 - Bei feng juan di bai cao zhe，
胡天八月即飞雪 - Hu tian bayue ji fei xue。
忽如一夜春风来 - Hu ru yi ye chun feng lai，
千树万树梨花开 - Qian shu wan shu lihua kai。
How do you think of this painting? Do you enjoy it?
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 ZhangJan 1, 2012
