Songs about Tang poetry

There are many successful examples in this regard. The most famous one is the album "A Touch of Love", which includes Li Yu's "Meeting Happily" (Speechless Alone at the Theater), Su Shi's " "Shui Tiao Ge Tou" (When Will the Bright Moon Come), Fan Zhongyan's "Su Mu Zhe" (Blue Cloud Sky, Yellow Leaves Ground), Qin Shaoyou's "Taoyuan Reminiscing Old Friends" (Jade Tower Deeply Locked in Love), Nie Shengqiong's "Partridge Sky" ( "The Flowers Melancholy Out of Fengcheng"), Li Yu's "Crying in the Night" (The forest flowers faded in spring) and "Poppy Poppies", Ouyang Xiu's "Spring in the Jade House" (I don't know whether you are far or near after farewell), Zhu Shuzhen's "Birth Cha Zi" "(On the Lantern Festival last year, the lights in the flower market were as bright as day) (Qiong Yao also used this, in the interlude "Mandarin Duck Brocade" she wrote for "Smoke Locks the Chonglou" or "New Moon Princess", Liu Yong's "Rain" "Lin Ling", Xin Qiji's "Ugly Slave" (Young people don't know the feeling of sorrow), Li Zhiyi's "Divination" (I live at the head of the Yangtze River, you live at the end of the Yangtze River), etc., including the famous Taiwanese composers Gu Yue, Liu Jiachang, Weng Qingxi, Chen Yang and others composed the music. The music and lyrics are a perfect match and complement each other. This album has become a masterpiece that can be praised in the history of modern music. "Audio and Video World Magazine" once rated the film as one of the "ten albums most suitable for listening at night." ". The two most famous songs in this album are Li Yu's "Yu Meiren" ("When are the spring flowers and autumn moon, how much do you know about the past"), and the other is "I hope people will last forever" that Faye Wong later sang. This is a modern interpretation of this classic masterpiece. In fact, there are many musical versions of this poem in mainland China. The one that has the deepest impression is in the TV series "Wu Song" broadcast in 1983 and 1984. The maid of Zhang Dujian's family, Later, the one who jumped off the building for Wu Song once played and sang this song. However, these are mostly vocal works, which are far away from popular music. But from another perspective, they illustrate the integration of classic poetry and music. From another perspective, pop songs mostly express a kind of popular culture, and the intervention of classical poetry just brings its elegant side to the public. It also proves that there is no insurmountable gap between elegance and vulgarity in art. The key is

What I want to say is that many borrowed poetry and songs are commonly used in film and television works that reflect some historical themes, and they are just right to express or highlight the characters in the play. Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong" is more familiar to everyone. It has been composed and sung in the TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and other film and television works related to Yue Fei. The most famous one is probably Zhang Mingmin. That version has arrived. Hong Kong's martial arts dramas and historical dramas are most fond of using this kind of works, while mainlanders like to talk about some related Tang poetry and Song lyrics, compose and sing them in literary and artistic activities that express a certain theme. Jiao's "Wandering Son" and others are used to express a given theme, using the influence of poetry and the appeal of songs to guide the audience into a state, thereby achieving a predetermined effect. Another widely sung song is that of Xu Xiaofeng. The song "It's Hard to Say Goodbye" is based on Li Shangyin's "Untitled" "It's hard to say goodbye when we meet/The east wind is powerless and the flowers are withered/The silkworms will die when the spring silkworms die/The wax torch will turn to ashes before the tears dry up"

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

Literary creation has always paid attention to the principle of extensive quotation, quoting from classics, and using things for my own use. , thus suggesting the breadth of the subjects they express. Many modern popular lyricists hope to borrow allusions or content from some classical poems, expand them or use them as ideas to deduce, and then show a modern story and emotion. . There are two people who stand out the most in this regard. One is Qiong Yao from Taiwan. Many of her lyrics like to borrow some famous lines from Tang poetry and Song poetry, such as "Only the eyebrows are lowered, but the heart is deep", "How deep is the courtyard", "Green Mountain" "Still here, several sunsets are red" and so on. This is very consistent with the image of a classical and graceful woman that she has always worked hard to manage. It also fits well with the various images she creates, which is poetic and picturesque, and not like the fireworks of the world.

The other one is Chen Xiaoqi from mainland China. He is a leading figure in the Lingnan School of music creation in mainland China.

Many of today’s lyrics are not very specific in terms of language and serve the tune more, so there are many errors in them. This is especially true for Hong Kong's lyric creation. The strange phenomenon is that both the best lyrics and the most abusive lyrics appear in Hong Kong. In comparison, some veteran lyricists in Taiwan pay more attention to the combination of poetry and culture, and the method of combination. Hong Kong's lyrics love to use poetry culture, but it is often abused or even misinterpreted. This is also a significant feature of Hong Kong's urban fast food culture.

In any case, as a precious cultural heritage, Song Dynasty poetry will always have an impact in one way or another on modern, including future pop lyrics creation. Modern culture will always learn from and inherit classical culture. It won't stop. Tang poetry and Song lyrics are an indispensable theme in the creation of popular lyrics, an inexhaustible source, and an unavoidable temptation. They provide a lot for modern creators in terms of word choice, sentence creation, theme creation, and layout. Good idea.