The song "Green Flower Porcelain" by Jay Chou incorporates many elements of traditional Chinese culture and poetry. It describes the beauty of blue and white porcelain and a woman's smile using vivid imagery. The singer expresses a longing to be with his love from afar and find solace in artistic pursuits like calligraphy and painting landscapes, only to have memories of her fade further over time.
1. Green Flower Porcelain (周杰伦《青花瓷》英文翻译)
Jay Chou is a Taiwanese musician, singer-songwriter, music and film
producer, actor and director who regularly fuses traditional Chinese
instruments and styles with R&B or rock to form a new genre called
“Zhongguo feng,” which literally means “Chinese Style Music.” The following
song-“The Flower Porcelain” contains many poetic and traditional Chinese
cultural elements. Enjoy the picturesque music and appreciate the poetic
culture.
Green Flower Porcelain
Jay Chou and Vincent (Chinese Name Fang Wenshan)
Dark to thin immerges the blue and white
Peony profiles on that reflect your dressing by
I Understanding your secret when the sandalwood smell permeate from the
window
What makes me lay the brush down I sigh
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3. Chinese Beautiful Ladies Painting
In glaze covering hides the charm of paints
While your smile blossoms like breeze
Regretting to leave it gone till the untouchable space
Sky blue waiting for the rain as I waiting for you
Mist rises I find thousands miles away distant to
Only have to devote in article carving
As a hint foreshadowing when I meet you
Sky blue waiting for the rain as I waiting for you
Drawing down the moonlight it reveals the move
Lonely but pride the porcelain shines as the smile in your eyes
Fish carving down a moment, vivid, how’s that
Signature there I can’t get rid of the missing thought
Your legendary has being passed down over thousands of years
In my eyes still it’s so visible, obvious hits
The shower meets my outdoor trees and patina fills the old days
Aged waiting in the small south town tells out my stay
Splashing of ink is my last choice to conceal the replay
4. Sky blue waiting for the rain as I waiting for you
Mist rises I find thousands miles away distant to
Only have to devote in article carving
As a hint foreshadowing when I meet you
Sky blue waiting for the rain as I waiting for you
Drawing down the moonlight it reveals the move
Lonely but pride the porcelain shines as the smile in your eyes
8. 如传世的青花瓷自顾自美丽 你眼带笑意
Green Flower Porcelain
Blue strokes tailing off and off,
A peony is lined against the white and rough
Like nothing but your first make-up
Chinese Flowers Painting
Sandalwood fragrance sneaks out of the window,
Revealing a story untold
Idle is the brush on the paper,
The painting only half-prepared
The maiden portrait is glazed , and its charm lingering
Your smile is shining, like a bloom budding
But all is gone, like breezes .
Somewhere beyond my access
The sky dims down, expecting rain in mist
And it’s you that I have missed
Smoke dances toward the sky.
9. Across the river which far far away lies
The bottom calligraphy tells of Han-style,
To grab a touch of classic smile
Chinese Calligraphy Painting
So just let it serve to foreshadow,
An encounter still unknown
The moon in water, bothered by a ripple ,
Suggests an end possible
Your eyes glitter with smile,
10. Like the narcissist porcelain of age-old style
The blue carp stands out vivid against white
Of you, the Song-style signature can’t but remind
The secret sealed for generations in the kiln
Is more delicate than needle fallen
The mischievous plantain invites a shower,
And the cunning patina creeps onto the knocker
Dropping into the rousing town of riverside,
I happened to catch your innocent sight
O away now are you fading,
In the heavy ink of landscape painting
Chinese Water Township Painting
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