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 Listen to Shirley Singing the Poem in English Sep 5, 2010
Listen to Shirley Singing the Poem in Chinese July 23, 2006
Listen to Shirley Explaining the Poem & Follow Me to Read It
Follow Shirley to Read the New Words & the Chinese Charaters
Read Shirley's Comments about This Poem Sep 5,2010
See Shirley Created Paintings & Calligraphy for the Poem Sep 5,2010
 Hi, friends, have you been to China? China is a poetic country. In our daily life, we often use some lines as usual sentences to make our language is more implicative and easy to understand.
For example, when we say something just reveals a little part, the most part of it has been hidden or has not been showed, we often say: Xiao He Cai Lu Jianjian Jiao -- A little lotus just reveals out of the water, the most part of it has not opened.
Anyway, when people use this sentence naturally, many of them do not know that they are quoting a line that is from a little Chinese classical poem Xiao Chi -- A little Pool by Song Dynasty((960 - 1279) poet Yang Wangli(1127 - 1206).
This is a very little poem that has written out a very interesting small snatch in a beautiful summer day:
A peaceful mouth of the spring cherishes the little streamlet, and let her flowing into the pool quietly,
The tree shade is reflecting in the water, it seems like it loves the soft view in sunshine.A little leaf of a lotus just extends out of the water.Before it has opened her body, one dragonfly has stood on it early...
Every line is just a picture, so when I read it, I had a very strong feeling that I should paint a new picture of the water lilies in the water and dragonfly over the flowers. :-)
So, I did it this weekend -- Sep 4 and Sep 5, 2010; and also, I had created a piece of music to match it in July 23, 2006.
I really hope that my effort will be some of help with you to learn Chinese culture and language.
MAIN MEANING OF THE POEM
A Little Pool
By Yang Wangli (Song Dynasty)
A peaceful mouth of the spring
cherishes the small streamlet,
The tree shade reflects in the water,
it loves the view in the sunshine.
A little lotus just grows out of the water,
One dragonfly has stood on it early...
NEW WORDS AND RONUNCIATION :
Please hit any Chinese character that you need help with, to see its Chinese pinyin, pronunciation, and meaning and follow me to read it.
NEW WORDS & CHINESE CHARACTERS:
小池 - Xiǎo Chí
杨万里 ( 宋 ) - Yáng Wànlǐ ( Sòng )
泉眼无声惜细流 - Quányǎn wúshēng xī xìlíu,
树阴照水爱晴柔 - shùyīn zhàoshuǐ ài qíng róng。
小荷才露尖尖角 - Xiǎo hé cái lù jiānjiān jiǎo,
早有蜻蜓立上头 - zǎoyǒu qīngtíng lì shàngtóu。
 If you have any questions, comments and suggestions, please write to shirley@ebridge.cn or shirleyz004@yahoo.com. You are welcome to publish your opinions in Message Board as well.
Shirley Zhang
Written, Sung, Translated & Recorded July 23, 2006 / September 5, 2010
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