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 Listen to Ms. Chen Hong to Sing the Song
 It is near the most important Chinese Festival -- Spring Festival and also Chinese New Years Day Holiday. During the longest national holiday, as soon as we can, we will go come back home to visit our parents.
As a nation that has a history for 5000 years, we admire the traditional culture to look after our parents after we have grown up. Even though there is a tradition that the old people will give their children red bags with money as their lucky wishes, right now, more and more adult children do not accept the red bags from their parents, but we gave our red bags with money to our parents and our children on Chinese New Years Day. In my family, my parents have their retirement pension and the medicine insurance, but, every child will give some money or gifts to our parents on Chinese New Years Day. After buying a new apartment for our parents as a gift when they were 73 years old, both of my brother and I decided to pick up our parents to Wuxi when they were 80 years old and my brother and his wife wanted to stand the duty to look after them. However, since my parents chose to live in a rest house with more old people together, I have increased my money to equal or more than their retirement salary yearly to help them to live better and freer.
As children, the best happiness thing of us is to see our parents healthy and happy every day, just like "two old children" with their 83 years old. :-)
So, this week, I would like to introduce one of the most popular songs during the Spring Festival in China. I have translated it into English, but, I have had no time to record it yet. So, I just show you the original singing by Ms. Chen Hong.
I do hope that is a little bit help to you to know more about Chinese culture and to improve your Chinese listening level.
MAIN MEANING OF THE SONG:
Listen to Ms. Chen Hong to Sing the Song
Often Going Back Home to Visit Parents
Finding a leisure,
Finding a time,
Taking children,
going back to visit parents...
With smiles,
with wishes
taking spouse,
going back to visit parents...
 Mother prepares something repeating,
father cooks delicious food.
the life's troubles to talk with mother,
the business things to talk with father.
Often going back to visit parents,
at least helping mother to clean the kitchen,
Old parents don't want to us doing anything more,
they are just wish us to reunite...
Often going back to visit parents
at least helping father to massage on his shoulders.
Old parents don't want to us doing anything more,
they are just wishing us safe and good luck.
CHINESE CHARACTER AND PRONUNCIATION :
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 Ms. Chen Hong to Sing the Song
 If you have any questions, comments or絖suggestions, please write to shirley@ebridge.cn, or shirleyz004@yahoo.com, You are welcome to publish your opinions in Forum For Friends. :-)
--Shirley
Written, Translated and Recorded on Sun, Jan 6, 2008
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