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 LISTEN TO SHIRLEY SINGING THE SONG
 Hi, friends, today, I would like to introduce and sing a Chinese popular song Chang Huijia Kankan -- Often Going Back Home to Visit Our Parents .
The lyrics of this song express one of the commonest human feelings in the simplest of words -- how parents look forward to their children coming back home often and how the children want to go back home to visit their parents... That is why as soon as it was sung on the New Years Eve Party on China Central Television in 1999 it has been popular in China.
Mr. Che Xing wrote the lyrics on a train in 1996, while he was on a business trip. He was thinking of his late father and he was missing his mother who was at home alone. He was feeling sorry for his parents because he had to go on many business trips and so could not spend much time with them; so the lyrics he wrote have a very complex feeling...
I have enjoyed the lyrics, music and the thoughts that this song brings since the first time I heard it. However, this is the first time that I really read all the lyrics, which I have now done to preview the song for my vocal music lesson.
I seldom sing a popular song, but, when I sing this song, I do feel very good indeed.
However, because a rainstorm is expected tonight, my vocal music teacher and I worked in a hurry because we wanted to finish our lesson before the rainstorm came. So, as a result, I feel that neither the piano accompaniment nor my singing is very harmonious.
I just hope that my singing will be a little help to you to in knowing more about Chinese culture and in improving your Chinese listing level. :- )
MAIN MEANING OF THE SONGLISTEN TO SHIRLEY SINGING THE SONG:
Often Going Back Home to Visit Our Parents
To find a little bit leisure,
to find a little bit time,
to take our children,
often going back parents home to have a visit...
 With smiles,
with good wishes
to take our husbands/wives,
often going back parents home to have a visit
Mothers have prepared some "constantly repeats";
fathers have prepared some good food.
To talk about the troubles in life to our mothers,
to talk about work with our fathers.
Often going back parents home to have a visit
Even though we can only help our mothers
to wash the chopsticks and dishes
The old parents do not ask us to do anything more for the family,
It is not easy for raising us the whole of their lives,
What they are just wishing is all of us lucky and safety...
Often going back parents home to have a visit,
Even though we can only do some massages
for our father on their back and shoulders.
The old parents do not ask us to do anything more for the family,
they are always worrying for us for whole of their life,
they are just wishing all of us having a reunion someday...
CHINESE CHARACTER AND PRONUNCIATION LISTEN TO SHIRLEY SINGING THE SONG:
絽絎 -- Chang Giujia Kankan
腥 -- zhao lian shijian 鐚
狗 -- zhao lian shijian鐚
蘂絖絖 -- ling zhe haizi鐚
絽絎 -- chang huijia kankan
絽筝膃絎 -- dai shang xiaorong鐚
絽筝腑 -- dai shang zhufu鐚
篋 -- peitong airen 鐚
絽絎 -- chang huijia kankan
絋絋 紊篋筝篋 -- mama zhunbei le yixie laodao鐚
悟綣臀篋筝罅絅 -- baba zhangluo le yi zhuo hao cai鐚
羇絋絋莚莚 -- shenghuo de fannao xiang mama shuoshuo鐚
綏ヤ篋悟莪莪 -- gongzuo de shiqing xiang baba tantan鐚
絽絎 -- chang hui jia kankan鐚
絎 -- hui jia kankan鐚
絽絋絋羇羇膈桁 -- na pa bang mama xixi kuaizi,
桁欠 -- shuashua wan鐚
篋筝上絅筝絎紊紊茣∞--laoren bu tu ern fei jia zuo duo da gongxian a鐚
筝 莨 絖筝絎号 -- yi beizi bu rongyi鐚
絨筝綛綛絎絎 -- jiu tu ge ping ping an an鐚
絽絎 -- chang hui jia kankan鐚
絎 -- hui jia kankan鐚
絽悟倶 -- na pa bang baba chuichui houbei鐚
-- rong rong jian鐚
篋筝上絅筝絎紊紊茣∞--laoren bu tu ern fei jia zuo duo da gongxian a鐚
筝 莨 絖筝絎号 -- yi beizi bu rongyi鐚
絨筝√ -- jiu tu ge tuan tuan yuan yuan
LISTEN TO SHIRLEY SINGING THE SONG:
 If you have any questions, comments and suggestions, please write to shirley@ebridge.cn , or shirleyz004@yahoo.com, You are welcomed to publish your opinions in Forum For Friends. :-)
--Shirley
Written, Translated, Sung and Recorded It on Sat, July 15, 2006
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