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Two Tigers is a popular traditional Mandarin nursery rhyme called "Liang Zhi Lao Hu" in Mandarin.Variations adopt the tune of the French melody "Frère Jacques ...
"Mo Li Hua" (Chinese: 茉莉花; pinyin: Mòlìhuā or Mòlihuā [1]; lit. 'Jasmine Flower' [a], also called Sinfa [8]) is a Chinese folk song of the "xiǎodiào" ("short tune") genre, from the Jiangnan region (south of the lower Yangtze river, around Suzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou).
"Kangding Qingge" (Chinese: 康定情歌; pinyin: Kāngdìng Qínggē; Wade–Giles: K'ang 1-ting 4 Ch'ing 2-ko 1), or "Kangding Love Song", is a traditional folk song of Kangding, Sichuan Province. [1] The song is one of the most popular songs across the Sinosphere. [2]
"Gongxi Gongxi" (Chinese: 恭喜恭喜; pinyin: Gōngxǐ gōngxǐ; lit. 'congratulations', 'congratulations'), mistranslated in public as "Wishing You Happiness and Prosperity" (which is the meaning of gōngxǐ fācái (恭喜發財)), is a popular Mandarin Chinese song and a Chinese Lunar New Year standard. [1]
Under Article 9, willful alteration of the music or lyrics is criminally punishable by imprisonment of up to two years or up to 360 day-fines [37] [38] and, although both Chinese and Portuguese are official languages of the region, the provided sheet music has its lyrics only in Chinese. Mainland China has also passed a similar law in 2017. [39]
Singer Fei Yu-ching in 2012 Plum trees in winter "Yi Jian Mei" (Chinese: 一剪梅; pinyin: Yī jiǎn méi; lit. 'One Trim of Plum Blossom'), [a] also commonly referred to by its popular lyrics "Xue hua piao piao bei feng xiao xiao" (Chinese: 雪花飄飄 北風蕭蕭; pinyin: Xuěhuā piāopiāo běi fēng xiāoxiāo; trans. "Snowflakes drifting, the north wind whistling"), is a 1983 Mandopop ...
Cí (pronounced ; Chinese: 詞), also known as chángduǎnjù (長短句; 长短句; 'lines of irregular lengths') and shīyú (詩餘; 诗馀; 'the poetry besides Shi'), is a type of lyric poetry in the tradition of Classical Chinese poetry that also draws upon folk traditions.
The lyrics were interpreted as either anti-Japanese, treasonous, or pornographic. After 1949 the song was banned by the People's Republic of China because it was seen as bourgeois and decadent. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The writer Liu was criticized and suffered during the Anti-Rightist Movement in 1957 and during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s.