Beautiful Chinese Music【10】Traditional

English/Lyrics:

GUAN! GUAN! CRY THE FISH HAWKS
from Zhounan (The Odes of Zhou and the South)

Guan! Guan! Cry the fish hawks
on sandbars in the river:
a mild-mannered good girl,
fine match for the gentleman.

A ragged fringe is the floating-heart,
left and right we trail it:
that mild-mannered good girl,
awake, asleep, I search for her.

I search but cannot find her,
awake, asleep, thinking of her,
endlessly, endlessly,
turning, tossing from side to side.

A ragged fringe is the floating-heart,
left and right we pick it:
the mild-mannered good girl,
harp and lute make friends with her.

A ragged fringe is the floating-heart,
left and right we sort it:
the mild-mannered good girl,
bell and drum delight her.

[NOTES]
This Chinese traditional song composed from a poem more than three thousand years old of a Noble Chinese man consumed with love for a lowly water plant harvester.

Zhounan: (The Odes of Zhou and the South) In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Lord Dan of Zhou (reigned 1063-1057 B.C.) made Luo City (today's Luoyang City in Henan Province) its capital and from there he ruled over other dukes. The poems in Zhounan are that from Zhou and the states south of Zhou, covering an area of today's Henan and Hubei Provinces.

The river : The Yellow River.

Beautiful Chinese Music Traditional Playlist http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B2CFDC94ED219184

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[TheBlazedge]

China has such a beautiful culture and it's music is fascinating, I wish I was Chinese.

[littlelizzy78]

Beautiful song, beautiful video, beautiful woman, beautiful voice! I'm 16 and american, and my friends think I'm weird for liking traditional Chinese music. But i don't care. they're just missing out. I think China has the most beautiful culture in the world :)

[GirlyGirlMaggie]

@kanatapaw thanxs that means alot! :)

[kanatapaw]

@GirlyGirlMaggie

im shure u will go there soon :D

[GirlyGirlMaggie]

@kanatapaw no but a chinese teacher came and lived with us for 2 years i want to go back to china and visit her in the summer when im 15!!

[kanatapaw]

@GirlyGirlMaggie

awww bless you :3

do u visit china still?

i would love to go there one day ^^

[kanatapaw]

@TheBlazedge me too

im just a ginger thought

apriantly we have no souls and i cant spell i know but

i wish i was chinese :(

[xlJennylxLuvsYew]

@TheBlazedge even though ur not chinese u should be glad for who u r i bet ur country is as fascinating as the chinese. Each place each have their own beauty . :)

[HalfBreedMix]

@littlelizzy78 If China had not gone into isolation for so many years, they would be the most powerful country by far.

You have very good taste lizzy, don't you dare let your "friends" ruin that. They may even be jealous that you are able to enjoy something that is beyond their level of maturity.

[vamprincessjustlikeu]

@banbanren yup....its about these ladies and their personalities and etc.....what an ancient perv. but i must say the music is quite beautiful however it doesn't feel like true ancient chinese music......at least not to me.