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 Lisen to Shirley Singing the Song in Chinese Dec 18, 2011 in Beijing
This song is the theme song of a famous Chinese movie The Young people in Our Village -- Wo Men Cun Li De Nian Qing Ren that was produced by Changchun Film Studio and be directed by Ma Feng in 1959.
It described how a group of young people in the Apricot Flower Village helped the village to shak off the poverty and backwardness via blasting a cliff to bring the water into their own village to build a water and electricity station.
This movie made a daring attempt to allow two boys loved a girl at the same time. Its strong idealism and Shﾄ］xi local color caused many urban young people looking forward to a countryside life in 50's.
Maybe for almost all my classmates who are in the landscape class in Chinese National Academy of Arts have been to Taihang Mountains and many people enjoy painting them in the classrooms often; or maybe for I enjoy the lyrics in my bone -- if a person has a high aspiration, then he or she will not get older; plus for I love the orotund tones so that as soon as I read this song, I would like to learn to sing it.
Note: Both of Shﾄ］xi and Shﾇ始xi are written in same Chinese pinyin, but, one's tone is 1 or be expressed as -, the other's is 3 or v.
-- Shﾄ］xi keeps its original form
-- Shﾇ始xi should be written as Shannxi.
Shﾇ始xi's capital is Xian and Shﾄ］xi's capital is Taiyuan.
Their Chinese character are:
螻ｱ隘ｿｼ Shﾄ］xi -- Shanxi
髯戊･ｿｼ Shﾇ始xi -- Shannxi
I learned this song and translated it into English first time in 2006, I will try to re-translate it and to sing it in English some day later.
 Main Meaning of the Poem
People said that
there is a wonderful scene in Shanxi,
the soil is fat,
the water is beautiful,
the corn is sweet-smell.
It is Taihang mountain on the left,
It is Lﾇ嗟iang mountain on the right.
When you stand on the high place to see up,
you can see the water from Fen River
is singing to flow by my little village.
Apricot flowers are blooming
in the Apricot Village,
We are just at the golden ages,
the young boys do not dare to stand
hundreds' hard work,
the young girls can embroider
ten thousand's flowers.
We will not get older
for we have dreams always.
You see the grandmothers with white hair,
when they are straight their wastes,
they are just like only 17 or 18 years old... :-)
You can clink any Chinese Character below to see its Chinese pinyin, meaning and pronunciation, also, you can follow the links to enter the New Chinese Board and follow me to read it in Chinese
Chinese Characters & Pronunciation:
莠ｺ隸ｴ螻ｱ隘ｿ螂ｽ鬟主 -- Ren shuo Shanxi hao fengguangｼ
蝨ｰ閧･豌ｴ鄒莠隹ｷ鬥 -- di fei shui mei wugu xian縲
蟾ｦ謇荳謖螟ｪ陦螻ｱ -- zuoshou yi zhi Taihang Shan,
蜿ｳ謇荳謖 譏ｯ 蜷 譴 -- youshou yi zhi shi Lﾇ嗟ian縲
遶蝨ｨ驍｣鬮伜､ -- zhan zai na gaochu
譛荳荳譛 -- wang shang yi wang,
菴逵驍｣豎ｾ豐ｳ逧豌ｴ蜻 -- ni kan na Fenhe de shui ya,
蜩怜沸蝠ｦ蝠ｦ蝨ｰ豬霑 -- hua la la de liu guo
謌醍噪蟆譚譌 -- wo de xiao cun pang縲
譚剰干譚驥蠑譚剰干 -- xing hua cun li kai xing hua,
蜆ｿ螂ｳ豁｣蠖螂ｽ蟷ｴ蜊 -- er nﾇ zheng dang hao nian hua縲
逕ｷ蜆ｿ荳諤蜊闊ｬ闍ｦ -- nan er bu pa qian ban ku,
螂ｳ蜆ｿ閭ｽ髞荳遘闃ｱ -- nﾇ er neng xiu wang zhong hua縲
莠ｺ 譛 驍｣ 蠢 豌 豌ｸ 荳 閠 -- ren you na zhiqi qong bu laoｼ
菴逵驍｣ 逋ｽ蜿逧蟀蟀 -- ni kan na baifa de po po,
謖ｺ襍ｷ驍｣閻ｰ譚ｿ -- ting qi na yao ban
荵 雎｡蜊荳蜈ｫ -- ye xiang shi qi ba縲
 If you have any questions, comments and suggestions, please write to shirley@ebridge.cn , or shirleyz004@yahoo.com, You are welcomed.
--Shirley
Written, Translated, Sang And Recorded on Feb 18, 2006/Dec 18, 2011
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