55.《丑末寅初》 Around 3 AM
* 駱玉笙
This rap-singing folklore has been popular in the Hebei province, which embedsBeijing city. 3 am . The song sings about the moon, the stars, and the commons starting their daily lives...
The singer holds a slapstick on her left hand, and a drumstick on the other, to do her own percussion. You could also hear an accompanist playing a 3-string lute in the background.
56.《杜十娘》- singing a love tragedy of a Beijing courtesan in the Ming Dynasty
* 駱玉笙
This rap-singing folklore has been popular in the Hebei province, which embeds
The singer holds a slapstick on her left hand, and a drumstick on the other, to do her own percussion. You could also hear an accompanist playing a 3-string lute in the background.
56.《杜十娘》- singing a love tragedy of a Beijing courtesan in the Ming Dynasty
* 上海評彈團 - 周紅 徐惠新
This beautiful courtesan and a cultured student felt in love; then he put his study aside but spent all his money. His father was a respected Nanjing secretariat and would not accept a courtesan as a daughter-in-law. As his father cut off his money supply, she paid for her own redemption.
They planned their honeymoon in Su Zhou (蘇州) and Hang Zhou (杭州), before he would return home to try face-to-face persuasion. But there and then, they met a rich man, who overheard her singing voice and peeped to discover her superb beauty, and who offered a strong reason and a high price that he could not refuse to sell her.
The next morning, all dressed up and standing on the deck, she angrily scolded the rich man and her heartless husband; she then threw her jewelry into the river, one piece at a time, before she jumped in to drown herself.
This beautiful courtesan and a cultured student felt in love; then he put his study aside but spent all his money. His father was a respected Nanjing secretariat and would not accept a courtesan as a daughter-in-law. As his father cut off his money supply, she paid for her own redemption.
They planned their honeymoon in Su Zhou (蘇州) and Hang Zhou (杭州), before he would return home to try face-to-face persuasion. But there and then, they met a rich man, who overheard her singing voice and peeped to discover her superb beauty, and who offered a strong reason and a high price that he could not refuse to sell her.
The next morning, all dressed up and standing on the deck, she angrily scolded the rich man and her heartless husband; she then threw her jewelry into the river, one piece at a time, before she jumped in to drown herself.
57.《月儿高》The Moon Aloft - a pipa moonlight concerto
"天旋地轉，歷劫歸來，飛螢落葉，夕殿悄然。
當年月府法音，霓裳仙韻。羽衣迴雪，舞袖翻雲。
如今見月傷心，聞鈴斷腸。生死悠悠，長恨綿綿。"
58.《孟姜女》- cry song of a young woman whose husband died in Qin's Great Wall reconstruction
* 宋祖英
After defeating all the other states, Qin the First decided to remove the walls between the states, and to connect the northernmost walls to ward off the northern nomadic, so as to mark his new empire boundary.
This is a famous story of a Qin-dynasty wife searching for her husband, who was dragged away on their wedding night to repair the Great Wall.
As this cry song is commonly sung by generations of female beggars (from remote and northern areas) flooding in for food in the richer Chang Jiang (Yangtze River/長江) plains, it picked up various dialects and tunes over time.
59.《小河淌水》A Running Stream–雲南白族民歌
Love song from Bai ('White') minority race inYunnan
This is a famous story of a Qin-dynasty wife searching for her husband, who was dragged away on their wedding night to repair the Great Wall.
As this cry song is commonly sung by generations of female beggars (from remote and northern areas) flooding in for food in the richer Chang Jiang (Yangtze River/長江) plains, it picked up various dialects and tunes over time.
59.《小河淌水》A Running Stream–雲南白族民歌
Love song from Bai ('White') minority race in
* 譚晶
* 宋祖英
The dancers enacting the running stream
The dancers enacting the running stream
60.《小白菜》Small Chinese Cabbage - 河北民歌
描寫一個親生母親去世後受到繼母虐待的小姑娘的遭遇，其旋律優美，被歌劇《白毛女》引用。
61.《满空飞》 - a Fujian-province-style rap song about a bitter-sweet love story - 福建南音散曲
In the Tang dynasty, this student traveled to the capital for the national civil exam. By accident or by destiny, he bumped into a red light house, got charmed by a beauty, and missed the exam.
After spending all his money, he was expelled from the house, and became a funeral singer. His father, on a civil servant trip to the capital, found his son an insult to his house, and beat the hell out of him.
The spoony girl eventually located the boy, now a beggar on the street. She bought her own freedom, cohabited with him, and turned a new leave out of him. He sat and topped in the next national exam, and was assigned a senior position.
As a former prostitute, she could not be the wife of a senior official. She insisted on a separation from him; he insisted on giving up the appointment.....
He father then got a new appointment at the capital. He was touched by her deeds. He took his son back, together with his wife. Happy ending.
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《客途秋恨》- 广东南音 - a Guangdong-province-style rap song about his dead courtesan lover.
* 劉德華 梅艷芳
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