A Cantonese song with many ancient Chinese poems in the music video

Teresa Teng's "On the Water's Edge" - "Reed" from "The Book of Songs"

Wang Leehom's "Flower Field Mistake" from "Gai Shi Hero" - from "Flower Field Mistake"

Leward Liu's recent music video, "Continuing to talk about love", has also included elements of Cantonese Opera. Cantonese opera elements have been added to his recent music video "Keep Talking About Love", with a sad and elegant style, and the lyrics of the classic Cantonese opera song "Tears are like the rain outside the curtain, dripping until daybreak".

"New Mandarin Ducks and Butterfly Dream" - partly based on Li Bai's "The Sword Breaks the Water"

Faye Wong's "Wish for a Long Life"

Xu Siu-feng's "It's Hard to Say Goodbye"

"March of the Smoke and Fireworks," "Morning Cloud, Morning Rain" are all sung by Wu. Towards Cloud and Rain" all sung by Wu Tingqing

Mao Ning's "The Great Wave" 。。。。。

There are many examples of success in this area, the most famous being an album called "Faint and Spectral Love", which includes Li Yu's "Happy Together" (Without Words, I'm Alone on the Theatre Floor), Su Shi's "Song of Water" (When Will the Moon Come Around?), Fan Zhongyan's "Su Mou Zhi" (The Sky of Blue Clouds, the Ground of Yellow Leaves), Qin Shao-you's "Memories of My Old Man in the Peach Orchard" (Jade Building Locked in Sentiment), Nie Shengqiong's "Partridge Sky" (The Jade Tragedy of Flowers Out of Fengcheng), Li Yu's "The Cries of the Night" (The Forest Flowers Have Gone Red in Spring) and "The Beauty of Yu", Ouyang Xiu's "Jade Tower Spring" (I don't know how far away or near you are after parting), Zhu Shuzhen's "Shengcha Zi" (Last year's New Year's Eve, the lights in the flower market were as bright as the daytime) (Qiong Yao used this one as well, and it was used in the interlude "Mandarin Ducks Brocade" that she wrote for "Smoke-locked Heavy Buildings" or "Crescent Moon"), Liu Yong's "Rain Raindrops Bells", Xin Qiji's "The Ugly Nuer" (The Boys Don't Know the Taste of Sadness), and Li Zhiyi's "The Tastes of The songs are composed by renowned Taiwanese composers such as Gu Yue, Liu Jia Chang, Weng Ching Xi, Chen Yang, etc. The combination of the songs and the lyrics complement each other, making this album an outstanding piece of modern music history, and Audiovisual World Magazine has named it one of the "10 best albums to listen to at night". Audiovisual World Magazine named it one of the "Ten Best Albums to Listen to at Night". The two most famous songs in this album are Li Yu's "Yu Meiren" ("When will the spring flowers, autumn and moon end? How much do we know about the past?"), and Faye Wong's cover of "I Wish People Lasted Long", which is a modern interpretation of this classical masterpiece. In fact, there are several versions of this song in mainland China, and the most memorable one is in the TV series "Wu Sung" broadcast in 83 or 84 years, the maid of Zhang Du Jian's family, the one who jumped off the building for Wu Sung, had sung this song. But these mostly belong to the category of vocal works and are separated from popularity by a distance. But from another angle, it illustrates the fusion of classic poetry and music. Let's take another angle, pop songs are more of a popular culture, and the intervention of classical poetry, just the elegant side of it also pushed to the front of the crowd, but also shows that the art in fact, there is no elegant and popular insurmountable gap, the key lies in the fusion of the means.

What I'm saying is that a lot of the poems and songs that have been brought in are more commonly used in movies and TV shows reflecting some historical themes, and are aptly used to express or accentuate an emotion or a mood of the characters in the show. We are more familiar with Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong", in the TV series "Legend of the Eagle Shooting Heroes" and some other Yue Fei related film and television works have been composed and sung, the most famous may be Zhang Mingmin's version of the to. Hong Kong's martial arts dramas and historical dramas are the most popular use of such works. On the other hand, on the mainland, in the performance of a certain theme of cultural activities, they like to talk about some related Tang and Song poems and songs, such as Meng Jiao's "You Zi Yin", to express a set theme, the influence of the poems and the infectiousness of the songs to guide the audience into the state, so as to get the intended effect. Another popular song is Xu Xiaofeng's "It's Hard to Say Goodbye," which uses Li Shangyin's "Untitled," "It's hard to say goodbye when you see each other/the east wind is powerless and hundreds of flowers are left in ruins/the spring silkworms are exhausted by the end of their lives/the wax torches turn to ashes and the tears begin to dry up.

Tang poems and Song lyrics constitute an important source of material for modern pop songs and compositions, and have become a way of expression for their creation.

Literary creation has always been concerned with a wide range of quotations, citing the classics, things for my use, thus suggesting the broadness of the subject of its expression. Many modern pop lyricists, moreover, want to borrow some classical poems in the allusion or content, will be unfolded or interpreted as the idea, and then show a modern story emotion. The two most prominent in this regard are Qiong Yao of Taiwan, who likes to borrow famous lines from Tang and Song poems in many of her lyrics, such as "Only when the brows are down, but the heart is up", "How many times the courtyard is deep", "The green hills are still there, how many times the sun sets", "The green hills are still there, how many times the sun sets", and "The green hills are still there, how many times the sun sets". This is very much in line with the image of a classical woman that she has always struggled with, and is also very much in line with the various images that she has created, which are poetic and picturesque and unearthly.

The other is the mainland's Chen Xiaoqi, who is the leader of the Lingnan school of songwriters in the mainland. He also has a Wu City influence of the "sound of the waves still trilogy", "sound of the waves still" (Mao Ning), "deep in the white clouds" (Liao Baiwei) and "Bashan night rain" (Li Jin), from the title alone, is already and ancient poetry have a constant connection. In "The Sound of the Waves Remains the Same", he uses Zhang Ji's "Night Mooring at Maple Bridge" ("Leaving a fishing fire to moor by the maple bridge" and "The moonlight falls and the crows cry is always a thousand years of frost and wind"), while "Deep in the White Clouds" uses "There are houses deep in the white clouds" and Du Mu's "There are houses deep in the white clouds". There are people's homes" and Du Mu's "Mountain Walk" ("Sitting at the intersection and facing the setting sun, there is no home for you in the depths of the white clouds, you say you like the scenery of the maple forest, but in fact, the frosty leaves are not the February flowers of the same year", "Waiting for the car, you can't get out of the picture in your heart, and only by rolling up the You can't get out of the painting in your heart, roll up this autumn color to find your spring and summer", "Why are you still miserable waiting for the bus? Don't sing your heart out for a song". Later he wrote "March of Smoke and Flower", "Morning Cloud, Night Rain" (both sung by Wu Tingqing), and a song called "Big Wave Amoy Sand" by Mao Ning. He is one of the mainland lyricists with the heaviest antiquity style, and he likes to tell famous lines or allusions in ancient poems and lyrics combined with modern people's emotions, thus forming his unique Chen's style, and forming a model for Chinese pop lyrics creation. However, he mainly focused on describing his personal feelings.

Then there was Feng Xiaoquan, because he himself studied ethnic musical instruments, so he thought he had a deep interest in ethnic culture and roots, his lyrics also use more ancient poems and allusions or famous lines, mostly to create an atmosphere of ancient poems, show a kind of spirit, express a kind of feelings, more emphasized on a kind of social responsibility and national sentiments of the things, more familiar with the "Chinese ballads" ("The Cup of Morning Flower and Evening Gleanings"), and "The Ballad of China" ("The Cup of Morning Flower and Evening Gleanings"). "Chao Hua Xiu Hui pick up the cup of wine, lonely people after the wind and rain, drunken smile do you have, the geese flew over the chrysanthemums inserted all over the head") ha have "long days of autumn water" and so on.

There are also some pop songs that like to use the titles or famous lines of Tang and Song poems as lyrics, and there are more examples of this, including Liu Haibo's "Peach Blossoms on the Face of a Man", Bai Xue's "Sound of a Slow Voice", AGIN's "Beacon Road to Yangzhou", Chen Ming's "Looking back at the end of the lights, there you are", and the Tang Dynasty band's "Dreaming of the Tang Dynasty", "Dreaming of the Moon" and so on, and the lyrics of these compositions are only borrowed from the Tang poems or Song words or one of the famous words, which is actually not related to the Tang poems and Song words. These lyrics are just borrowed from Tang and Song poems or some famous words, which are not really related to the original poems, but they hint at the close relationship between modern pop songs and Tang and Song poems as well as some other classical poems.

From the point of view of the form of creation, the Tang and Song poems also provide a way of thinking for the creation of modern pop songs, or establish another style.

I think this is also a result of the entire Chinese culture being in one lineage. When it comes to the form of writing pop songs nowadays, they still inevitably borrow or apply or imitate the language format and style of Tang and Song poems. To create modern pop songs in the form of classical poems, on the one hand, the lyrics inherit the refinement of traditional poems in terms of language and the method of expression in terms of subtlety, on the other hand, there is no doubt that there is a shortcut to the expression of the theme, whether it is to say that the family and the country, or the love of a child, the classical poems tend to condense the language and the emotion together, thus adding a lot of space for evocative memories and the meaning of a long-lasting rhyme. The first step is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you're doing and how you're doing.

First of all, Hong Kong, Hong Kong's popular songwriting I have always thought that it is a very strange phenomenon, mention Hong Kong, we naturally and the most modern pace of life associated with a piece, that is because Hong Kong itself by the influence of foreign cultures is very deep, the fast-food culture is very prevalent in the popular songs There was a period of time, many singers are directly take the European, American, and Japanese popular tunes on the Chinese words, but Hong Kong's popular popular pop songs, but the Chinese words, but the Chinese words, but the Chinese words, but the Chinese words. However, the penetration of classical poems in Hong Kong's popular pop songs is significantly higher than that in the Mainland and Taiwan, which, I think, may also be related to the prevalence of classical martial arts and historical dramas in Hong Kong. On the other hand, the penetration of Cantonese culture is emphasized, and the lyrics are mostly based on the Cantonese dialect, which is called vernacular, and its language style is similar to that of the literary language, so the works of many Hong Kong songwriters are often very vulgar and harmless at the same time. However, it must also be recognized that many Hong Kong lyricists, their ancient cultural skills are quite deep, from their works can be seen in many of the use of canonical, and even the use of the Tang poetry and Song lyrics of the writing style, the norms to create.

First of all, James Wong, the most famous is the "Smiling Proud Wanderer" theme song "Canghai a laugh": "Canghai a laugh, waves on both sides of the tide, floating and sinking with the waves only remember this day ----- Qingfeng laugh, even cause loneliness, the heroic feelings are still tired of a lapel of the evening photo ------ ", and the "Legend of the eagle-eaters heroes" in a "thousands of sorrows to remember Old love" "red sun / no longer will rise / enthusiasm gradually like ice / each other star sinking sky / left me low back to blood tears condensation", ( "shoot" there is also a "four Zhang machine. (There is also a "four machine" in the "shooting". The technique is quite regular "four machine / mandarin ducks weaving to fly / poor not old first white / spring waves / blue grass / dawn cold / deep / want to bath red clothes", but this should be considered the work of Jin Yong). There is also the famous "Shanghai Tang" "waves run / waves flow / miles of the river never rest / Amoy all / the world / phantom as a torrent of a tide", his style is just like a laughing hero of the jianghu, bold and unrestrained enthusiasm.

Then there is Tang Wai-hung. Like James Wong, he wrote a lot of songs for TV dramas, a major source of music creation in Hong Kong at the time. In "A Dream of Spring in Beijing", he wrote, "The heart of a dreamy life is shattered / I'm in tears over the falling flowers / Why does the fate pass like water / The river goes away / It's not possible to catch up with it ------ No hate for the love of the heart is abandoned / Who do you blame for being adrift nowadays / How can we meet the storm again / The falling flowers are all shattered." In "Ten Thousand Waters and Thousand Mountains is Always Love", he said, "Do not say that the green mountains are more obstacles / the wind is also rapid / the wind is also strong / the white clouds over the mountain peaks can also be transmitted / do not say that the water is more changes / the water is also please / the water is also static / the tenderness is like the water love * * * forever", "The Legend of the Eagle Eagles Heroes" theme song "Iron Blood and Dangerous Hearts" is also his work, "vaguely dreaming about the past Seem to have seen / waves in the heart now / put aside the world to break the feud / companion to the sky / by grass in all directions / the desert is vast / which fear of snow and frost on the face / shooting eagle draws the bow / the plug Mercedes Benz / smile proud of this life without boredom ------ should know that the love is like running water / chopping / still messy / body after a hundred robberies is also in the heart of / the righteousness and kindness can not be broken". Deng's works write about the opportunity of love affairs, good at describing the inner feelings, quite the Song lyrics style.

There is also Lu Guozhan who is also a master of this kind of work. He always carries the weight of the family and the country, and his works have a strong flavor of national sentiment and historical judgment, which is exactly the quality that many famous writers of Tang and Song poems and lyrics are admired by the world. Look at his "Great Wall of China will never fall": "sleep for a hundred years / the country has gradually awakened / ------ / the Great Wall of China will never fall / thousands of miles of the Yellow River / beautiful rivers and mountains / superimposed colorful peaks and ridges / ask me the country which is like dyeing disease," "the young girl Cixi": "women have always been better than the men / men and women have been confronted with generations / ever! I'm not sure if I've ever speculated that the world tomorrow will be dominated by the weak again".

Then Xu Guanjie, also make good use of poetry to depict the world of life "difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood / human face more dangerous and deceitful" "Prodigal Son's heart", "the night wind winds / alone look back / the old things before the dust" "silence is gold", write love "The swaying **** to the light boat floating / mutual vows to celebrate the spring dawn / two hearts opposite each other in the shadow / wish to turn into seagulls singing happy mood / bright sun and sister kisses / hope to harmonize the white head will never be divided / the beautiful scenery intoxicating heart to agree with each other / the relative fates between the green willow flowers / tears residual dreams of the deep shadow of the candle / the moonlight alone shine cold mandarin ducks pillow / drunken embracing the lonely lonely coverlet can not help but grief / midnight sobbing in an empty tent alone with hate" "". Double Star Love Song".

Looking at Taiwan again, the Taiwanese lyrics are more modern, more focused on the wind and flowers, but this also happens to be a major source of material for many of the old poems and texts. I think the most prominent one is still Qiong Yao, who makes the best use of old poems and texts to express the romantic feelings of children in love. For example, "the green grass is pale / the white mist is vast / the green hills are still there / a few degrees of sunset red / and wipe the tears of this night / to stay with the wind of tomorrow night / the wind and carry my dream / the end of the world around the infinite" "a few degrees of sunset red".

Small bugs also have a few famous works, all show some of the feelings of the ancient poems, but from the Tang poetry and Song dynasty, has been some distance, more like Yuanqu and so on. For example, he wrote to Chen Shuhua's "Love Pass": "I had a heart / I had love / Naihe no longer have the sky / love and hate in the middle of the tears / in order to have this dream", "Dream of the Red Mansion" "Last night the red building into the dream / how many sad past events on the heart / this morning woke up the dream has been empty / in vain to stay in the red building in the dream / the red cradle, the red cradle / why the thick red makeup can not cover the red building, the red cradle / the red cradle, the red cradle, the red cradle, the red cradle, the red cradle. Why can't the thick red makeup cover up your light sorrow / Red embrace, red embrace / your light sorrow is only because people will leave you out", and to Pan Yueyun wrote "Red Lady" "looking forward to you to come / looking forward to the peach blossom Xie and bloom again / ask the sky can't understand / ------ / look at the two love each other / the heart is like Zhu Yingtai / this should be the arrangement of heaven! ".

Another feature of Taiwan's pop songwriting is that many lyricists and songwriters show a heavy sense of social responsibility, concern for the crowd, and attention to the universal reality underneath the surface, and then more expression of nostalgia. In the expression of these aspects, the form of ancient poetry will also be a very natural way I like Zhang Hongliang's song "a journey through the mountains and water, a journey of song", the singer later short-lived, but the song is still fresh in the minds of many people. The song reads, "I will be worried about the delay into drunkenness wake up for sleep / or worry and my heart *** has been tired / not I endowed poetry poetry endowed me / not I drink wine drink me / when the sound of the shoes have been stained on the moss cold / what is the world's most easy to destroy the young man old / half of the heart of the snow half of the shadow of a pile of people / not I away from the month away from me / not I think of my hometown township think of me / return to the former bridge side of the red leaves do not know the people / in the end, it is I walked through the road / or the wind is walking me / the road is walking through me / the wind is passing by. The road is walking with me / The wind through the west window is crossing the boat without a place to look for / It is me who passes through spring and rain or spring and autumn / Or spring and autumn passes through me / Year after year, a river of new grass is seen from afar but it seems to be returning / Deep in the night, a lone lamp shines with no regrets / When I look back at the Qingjiang River, all of them are in tears / The wind is clear and I am afraid that I might see the clear light of the moon between the wind and the clear shoulder patting / A journey to the landscape and a journey to the song / A flute with a sparse rain of cold blowing withdraws / A dream in the sound of the sound of leaves is also the sound of the sound of the end of the softly and" It is precisely this poetic style and rhyme of the way of lyrics that is so important at The song was written in this poetic style, and the lyrics were clear and unassuming at the time, which made the song stand out in the singing world at the time, and also gave the singer a moment of glory, which is exactly where the charm of the ancient poetic style lies.

When it comes to the mainland's songwriting, there is actually more talent, after all, that is where the roots of traditional Chinese culture lie. The mainland side in addition to Chen Xiaoqi Feng Xiaoquan, but also to say a Chen Tao, his lyrics are also very elegant style, which has a lot to do with his frequent borrowing quotes ancient poetry classics. Look at his work, he wrote "Farewell My Concubine": "I stand in the / strong wind / hate can not / block sheep love pain / look at the sky / the four directions of the cloud movement / sword in hand / ask the world who is a hero / my heart / you are the most important / sadness and joy * * * / life and death with the same / in the next life when the hero / go back to the slanting sun is strong. Southeast Flight of the Peacock: "Southeast Flight of the Peacock, fly to the end of the world to go not to return ------ I wish to have lovers, *** drink a river of water, outside the red dust, ------", "Jingzhong Reward the Nation" (both sung by Tu Honggang), and "Red Flowers and Red Faces": "A red flower in this night, hastily take away the remnants of the sun Like Blood" (the theme song of Book and Sword), and his favorite recent song, "Geese Bridging the Mud" (sung by Mei Jia): "The beauty of the Jinling Mountains blows her flute horizontally / attracting swallows bridging the mud of spring / swallows build willow embankments in pairs / shallow laughter comes from deep within the shadows of the willows / the spring rain of the south of the Yangtze River is as moist as jade / never wetting pedestrians' clothes / ------ / singing of prosperity, glorifying the peace of the world, the heavens meet People's will / and listen to the silk and bamboo melodious, urgent strings," exquisite chic, its mood and let people think of the sentence "the sky street drizzle moist as crispy, grass color distantly see near but no", extremely rich in the sense of picture. Zhang Qua, who wrote "Bittersweet Years", also has a very famous song "Unfinished Love". The theme song of the TV series "Deep in the Night" says, "Though there is a spiritual rhinoceros, the swallows fly to different places", which is a perfect reflection of Li Shangyin's two lines, "There is no colorful phoenix flying on the wings, but there is a spiritual rhinoceros in the heart". With a background in opera composition, Yan Su also has a lot of works such as "small building last night and the east wind / the old country back in the moonlight / ------ / the sky is vast / the water is misty / up and down the search for the air in love / back to look at the dawn of the Kyushu red" (theme song of the TV series "Hundred Days of the Wind and Clouds", sung by Na Ying), and so on.

In addition to the form of imitation and borrowing, in the writing of lyrics, modern pop songs are also from the Tang poetry and Song lyrics to learn a lot of nutrition. The rhythm and beauty of the mood are the basic requirements of poetry, and the picaresque technique, which is more commonly used in Tang and Song poems, has been used to write modern lyrics, and the examples are numerous.

While the creation of modern lyrics follows the path of classical poetry and lyrics, the Tang and Song dynasties are still products of different eras, and they show the language and content characteristics of different eras, and are subject to the scrutiny and judgment of different eras.

We say that literature exists to reflect life, so any form of culture is bound to reflect the reality of life in a period of time, reflecting the characteristics of a particular era. Just as we all talk about Tang poetry and Song lyrics, but do not refer to them generically, it is because they each reflect the characteristics of that era. Pop songs, on the other hand, are clearly a product of this era, different from the Tang and not very different from the Song, so there are still more obvious differences between it and the first two, which is why they are rarely compared together.

Let's start with the theme and content. It is true that poetry, poetry of any era, will not fail to express emotion as the theme, but people in different eras, the way of expression of emotion and content is often very different, which has nothing to do with the content of the people's lives in each era and social norms and standards in the first place. China's thousands of years of feudal culture makes people focus more on the country, family and society, seeking knowledge and career, the mountains and the countryside, the motherland and the mountains, etc. In the Tang and Song poems, you must have read more such as "the country is broken, the mountains and rivers are in the city/the city is alive in the spring grass and trees," this kind of worry about the country, or "the earth is full of flowers in April, the peach blossoms in the mountain temples are in the beginning, the peach blossoms in the mountain temples are in the end. The peach blossoms in the mountain temples are in full bloom", or the open-mindedness of "Life must be enjoyable, don't make the golden bottle empty to the moon", or the high realm of "Birds stay in the trees by the pool, monks knocking at the door under the moon", or There is also the personal sentimentality of "raising a glass to the moon and turning a shadow into three", and the epiphany of "once the ocean is hard to be water, except the witch mountain is not a cloud". Great writers such as Li Bai Du Fu Bai Juyi, more in the description of the mountains and rivers and other world affairs, or personal success or failure between the feelings, and for personal emotional things, but carefully collected, less mentioned. Song lyrics depicting personal emotions count more, but most of the most subtle things, like writing a parting, can only "look at each other's eyes in tears, and even speechless choking", write longing, explicitly can not come, only to "looking for, cold and clear, miserable and tragic", the two love, at best, also can be used to describe the two love, at best, but also the two love, at most, can not be used to describe the two love. Two love, at best, also look forward to a "golden wind and jade dew a meeting, will be better than countless on earth", more can only sigh "two love if it is long time, and not in the morning and evening". Nowadays, people's attitude towards emotions is more open, and personalized things are more and more attention and importance, so a lot of works depicting personal feelings prevail, and in the language expression, just more direct and frank, for example, the first time we meet, "love at first sight can not be forgotten", and then "in order to For example, when we first met, "I can't forget love at first sight", and then "for the sake of this date, I couldn't sleep last night because I wanted to think about you", in love, he would always ask "am I the one you love the most", and when we broke up, he would say "I can't bear to see you go, so how can I stay alone", and when his feelings changed, he even said "the fourth person". The "fourth person" can appear, on the one hand, loudly questioned "why I love others behind my back," and finally can only face the "speechless end" "break up when said When you break up, please don't say it's hard to forget", but you can't figure out "why do you always miss it after you break up", and I'm afraid that even Li Houzhu, who is known for his flirtatiousness, is afraid that he just doesn't even dare to think about the problem.

Additionally, in the language above, that the characteristics of the times is even more obvious, for example, many popular songs will mention the phone, because that is a major way of modern communication, which is unheard of in the Tang and Song dynasties, not to mention "wear new clothes, cut a new hairstyle, Pentium computer, WINDOWS98! "and what" wearing a trench coat listening to the MD ". And the Tang and Song dynasties, "the palace wall willow, Huangteng wine, red crisp hands" or what "a ride on the red dust consort smile", what "wine salon singing platform", " Red Sleeves and Fragrant Fragrance" can only be the romance of that era, and will rarely appear in modern pop songs. These are the deep imprints of the times, and that's something that no one can change.

Then from the language expression. Certainly a lot of modern lyrics works in different degrees borrowed or quoted from the Tang poetry and Song lyrics of these things, but the living language has inevitably become the mainstream of modern songwriting, modern vocabulary and grammar is still always occupying the dominant position in the creation of lyrics. The language format requirements are also different, Tang and Song lyrics have strict requirements on format, while pop songs just need to rhyme, and some even don't need to rhyme. Tang and Song poems are very elaborate in their phrasing, and there is a famous story about Jia Dao's "Push and Knock" ("The bird sleeps in the tree by the pool, the monk knocks at the door under the moon"), while modern pop songs are based on and dominated by modern vernacular, which is much more straightforward and colloquial. It is true that there are a few narratives in ancient poems, but they are still in the literary style of "The charcoal seller, picking firewood and cutting charcoal in the southern mountains, his face full of dust and soot", and I believe that it is not possible to be as straightforward as "Dear mom and dad, how are you, are you busy with work and health". The first thing I want to do is to make sure that I have a good understanding of what I am doing.

Many of today's lyrics are not very standardized in language, and are more of a service to the tune, so there are many mistakes. This is especially true of Hong Kong's songwriting, where, strangely enough, the best lyrics and the most abusive ones are found. In contrast, some veteran lyricists in Taiwan pay more attention to the combination of poetry and culture, and the way of combination. Hong Kong's lyrics love to use poetic culture, but they are mostly abused or even misinterpreted, which is also a distinctive feature of Hong Kong's urban fast food culture.

In any case, as a valuable cultural heritage, Tang and Song lyrics will always play one way or another influence on modern including future pop lyrics creation, and the borrowing and following of classical culture by modern culture will never stop. Tang poetry and Song lyrics will be an unavoidable theme in the creation of popular lyrics, an inexhaustible source, an inescapable temptation, from the words and phrases, the theme of the creation, has been laid out in terms of modern creators to provide a lot of good ideas.

When I was very young, I had a song: "Spring flowers, autumn and moon, when is it over, how much do we know about the past, the small building last night and the east wind, the old country can not look back at the night in the bright. The carving of the jade masonry should still be there, but the face of the change, ask you can have a few more sorrows, just like a river of spring water to the east." Songs sung by a female singer named Zhu Xiaoling, its singing voice is fresh and mournful, young me although not without wind and rain, is still infected by that kind of sad atmosphere year ---- consider until now, whenever I see reflected in the history of the carved beams and paintings, the ears will still unconsciously ringing this song. Later, I realized that she was singing the words "Yu Meiren", which was written by the Tang Dynasty's later lord, Li Yu, after the country was destroyed, and it said that she was thinking of her homeland. This is the beginning of my contact with modern pop songs adapted from ancient Chinese poems, and it has a hint of the flavor of the blossoming mountain lily among the many so-called "sweet songs" that were babbling in those days.

When I was older, I listened to a number of songs adapted from ancient Chinese poems, of which the full text was selected and arranged to Teresa Teng sang Su Shi's "Songs in the Key of Water", the most famous. The bold and clear style of the lyrics of Dong Po Jushi, certainly did not expect, he was in Mizhou office of the sky of the wonderful scene of the fantasy, the moon of the round and the sadness of life and the sigh of joy and happiness, in more than 900 years later, will again be composed on a new song, sung in the north and south of the Yangtze River, touched by more new men and women. I personally think that this song is a classic of the new arrangement and singing of ancient poems.

Followed by a Cantonese version of "Man Jiang Hong" in the Hong Kong TV drama "Legend of the Eagle Shooting Heroes", Luo Wen used his classical Chinese singing voice, which is low but melodious and high, to portray Yue Fei's patriotic feelings and heroism of resisting the enemy and recovering the lost territories, and in the high place, the majestic momentum and the agitated emotions can't help but move you along with them.

Similar feelings, you can also get from the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" title song ---- is also the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in the opening words, "a pot of turbid wine happy to meet, how many things in ancient and modern times, are put into a laugh in the bravado, the Commission has let me have the regrets of the world was not born.

The attempts to put ancient Chinese poems into modern pop songs have become increasingly common. The whole adaptation will inevitably have its limitations, it would be better to take its mathematical and scientific, and use it in the key points of the new song, in order to "draw the dragon's eye".

So Hong Kong stars Jiang Zhiguang and Ella Wei's duet song "Why did you ever meet each other?", there is a "Serpazhang" "the same is the end of the world, why did you ever meet each other? love. Yes, the same sentence, into the different ears in different situations, have different aspirations, naturally touching different things, since ancient times is so.

And see Chen Baiqiang's song actually appeared in the name of the wine song, I can not help but be confused: is this gentleman also have Cao Gong "time is easy to pass, the work of the money on" the bitterness of it? Busy listening carefully: clean voice, deep feelings and can not hide the tone of sadness, is actually talking about a "lost" love story, "the heart" although "really painful", but still Although "this heart" is "really painful", it still "keeps searching for the dream", and "both eyes are red", "I vaguely feel that this stupidity is only for the love of the heavy". The content of the song is certainly far away from the expression of the "short song", but the feelings of the full, the mood of the sadness, not necessarily inferior to how much.