A Winter of less snow and the “Snow Poem”
少雪的冬日 與 “雪詩”沁園春
What happened to our winter?, Some newspaper or TV news programs really worries. It worried us too? People are funny when there is lot of snow, they are not comfortable, when there is little snow, they complaints too.
Canada, a places where snow falls a lot usually, but not this year. My wife told me her conversion with her Indian workmates, about friends' mother flight to Ontario, is merely to see the snow, however, what to see? She smiles after receiving the phone call.
One of the popular TV shows in China is the China Talent Show. What made this show so famous, and people love to watch is an English man, this guy is very good at singing those "Revolutionary Songs".
Those songs are came back to it's popularity recently in Chongqing, a mountain city famous for it's mayor named Bo-xi-lai. The songs were named after Red Army and those times everything are red in color in political speaking people would say.
Not every white westerners get known by people in this land. Among few, an Canadian doctor who help the the Army based in Yan An where those native songs rooted.
A modern Canadian gained himself a great name in China call Da-山. He is a good model for English speaking people mastering the Mandarin, a language said will be spoken and learnt worldwide.
Another TV show called "Come, if you're serious" matching 24 young women with selected males from all corners and all jacks. Also, quite favorites the overseas Chinese. it's funny and interesting to watch for there are quite some Chinese young boys raised in the English speaking world, but works in China, together with together with foreigners lack of the tones of local cultures and words.
As said, the English man wants to be most famous "Lao-Wai" a term call those people from other land, ( not in bad sense, quite friendly through ) by singing this type of old songs even now-days China Young knows very little.
One song he sang skillfully, in his self-designed costume, "Red East" was told written in West China, back many years, by a peasant in Shan-Bei. Northern Shan-Xi province. Simplest worded, as it goes: "Sun rises, shone the land, red." Everybody remember it's tune, as the color of "Sun Rise", an oil impressionist painting, by Monet in the West.
Honestly, this song is an rewrite from the folk-song epics the greatness of Mao, an historically and worldly arguable personality. No surprise, back in 60 or 70's as you were visiting North Korea today, those songs sang at great occasions.
Personally, big surprises ever encountered, was a question "what do you think about Mao" in an Job interview, one Swiss interviewee asks. In coast cities, at the time young people went out looking for working west-invested company where free coffee offered, creates heavy drinkers among young wheres people used to have Tea.
"He is a great personnel, ..He writes beautiful poems," was my answer, but he asked his soldier carried a quite load of books along the "Long March" when his Red Army moves thousands miles to a New Base, called Yan-an. "a few books maybe, Economics." I finished in this way.
I don't know how many poems in literature touches the topic of "Snow", but one I knew for sure is written by Mao, was entitled the same "Snow".
After so many years living in the snowy country, I remember I tried my best to put it into the language, I am still struggling with. Just a few more days before today back in 2008-01-05 One line was he wrote:
We get less snow, it not because he put down his words, scientists from whole world it is not true. It is cause by the "globe-warming“. One world known English publication "Economist" tells truth of world economically, and scientifically about the world happenings recently publish a article about China's recent changes in it's over the span of 49 to today.
I should quite agree some of the lines in this not-very-long article, covering the 60 years development of one of the nations with longest history. Yes, weather records could be traced down 60 years easily, however, it's hard to see more clearer of nation's track down the road.
Looking out of the window, snow falls beautifully, as winter winds softly blows,...my body is tired a little, with daily traveling for living,
I clicked the Link of "Snow Poem" by Mao, written in war-times, and here is my notes, back in 2008 Jan 05:
Note: 近日大湖急雪，世人有聚印尼談論氣候，故有所感， 也與大家助興， 想看看手跡，一時無處尋 ! When there was snow, when drove through the country road, let the hills and lands in white left behind; I felt something in me, and then came the rhythms and lines in an unfamiliar language.
一語小戰士
2012 元月
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少雪的冬日 與 “雪詩”沁園春
雙語 雜感周記
What happened to our winter?, Some newspaper or TV news programs really worries. It worried us too? People are funny when there is lot of snow, they are not comfortable, when there is little snow, they complaints too.
Canada, a places where snow falls a lot usually, but not this year. My wife told me her conversion with her Indian workmates, about friends' mother flight to Ontario, is merely to see the snow, however, what to see? She smiles after receiving the phone call.
One of the popular TV shows in China is the China Talent Show. What made this show so famous, and people love to watch is an English man, this guy is very good at singing those "Revolutionary Songs".
Those songs are came back to it's popularity recently in Chongqing, a mountain city famous for it's mayor named Bo-xi-lai. The songs were named after Red Army and those times everything are red in color in political speaking people would say.
Not every white westerners get known by people in this land. Among few, an Canadian doctor who help the the Army based in Yan An where those native songs rooted.
A modern Canadian gained himself a great name in China call Da-山. He is a good model for English speaking people mastering the Mandarin, a language said will be spoken and learnt worldwide.
Another TV show called "Come, if you're serious" matching 24 young women with selected males from all corners and all jacks. Also, quite favorites the overseas Chinese. it's funny and interesting to watch for there are quite some Chinese young boys raised in the English speaking world, but works in China, together with together with foreigners lack of the tones of local cultures and words.
As said, the English man wants to be most famous "Lao-Wai" a term call those people from other land, ( not in bad sense, quite friendly through ) by singing this type of old songs even now-days China Young knows very little.
One song he sang skillfully, in his self-designed costume, "Red East" was told written in West China, back many years, by a peasant in Shan-Bei. Northern Shan-Xi province. Simplest worded, as it goes: "Sun rises, shone the land, red." Everybody remember it's tune, as the color of "Sun Rise", an oil impressionist painting, by Monet in the West.
Honestly, this song is an rewrite from the folk-song epics the greatness of Mao, an historically and worldly arguable personality. No surprise, back in 60 or 70's as you were visiting North Korea today, those songs sang at great occasions.
Personally, big surprises ever encountered, was a question "what do you think about Mao" in an Job interview, one Swiss interviewee asks. In coast cities, at the time young people went out looking for working west-invested company where free coffee offered, creates heavy drinkers among young wheres people used to have Tea.
"He is a great personnel, ..He writes beautiful poems," was my answer, but he asked his soldier carried a quite load of books along the "Long March" when his Red Army moves thousands miles to a New Base, called Yan-an. "a few books maybe, Economics." I finished in this way.
I don't know how many poems in literature touches the topic of "Snow", but one I knew for sure is written by Mao, was entitled the same "Snow".
After so many years living in the snowy country, I remember I tried my best to put it into the language, I am still struggling with. Just a few more days before today back in 2008-01-05 One line was he wrote:
而今我謂昆侖：不要這高，不要這多雪。
Kun-Lun, here is my say: "Not such Height,n' no more snow,"
We get less snow, it not because he put down his words, scientists from whole world it is not true. It is cause by the "globe-warming“. One world known English publication "Economist" tells truth of world economically, and scientifically about the world happenings recently publish a article about China's recent changes in it's over the span of 49 to today.
I should quite agree some of the lines in this not-very-long article, covering the 60 years development of one of the nations with longest history. Yes, weather records could be traced down 60 years easily, however, it's hard to see more clearer of nation's track down the road.
Looking out of the window, snow falls beautifully, as winter winds softly blows,...my body is tired a little, with daily traveling for living,
I clicked the Link of "Snow Poem" by Mao, written in war-times, and here is my notes, back in 2008 Jan 05:
Note: 近日大湖急雪，世人有聚印尼談論氣候，故有所感， 也與大家助興， 想看看手跡，一時無處尋 ! When there was snow, when drove through the country road, let the hills and lands in white left behind; I felt something in me, and then came the rhythms and lines in an unfamiliar language.
一語小戰士
2012 元月
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