The lyrics of Red Bean Song are as follows:
Red Bean Song is a song written by Cao Xueqin, composed by Liu Xuean and sung by Zhou Xiaoyan, which belongs to art songs and was created in 1943. The lyrics are taken from the 28th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, which is the lyrics of a ditty sung by Jia Baoyu.
"Red bean" means acacia bean. In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei's poem "Red bean" has the sentence "take home an armful, for my sake, as a symbol of our love", which is often used to refer to acacia in poetry, and here refers to blood and tears. The first sentence, "I can't stop loving you and throwing red beans", points out the love theme of the whole song. The following uses a series of parallelism sentences to show the young people in love who are distressed by love. The lyrics are as follows:
Red beans can't be thrown with endless acacia blood and tears, and spring flowers can't bloom all over the building.
I can't sleep well. After the storm and dusk, I can't forget my new worries and old ones.
I can't swallow the jade grain, and my throat is choked, so I can't see the thin in the rhombic mirror.
if you can't open your eyebrows, you'll leak even more if you don't know.
ah, it's like a castle peak that can't be covered.
it's just like the green hills that can't be covered, and the green water that keeps flowing.
Song appreciation:
Songs have a multi-sentence structure. The whole song runs through and develops with the rhythm of the first phrase as the basic rhythm. This rhythm of the number plate and the surrounding tone are carried out, which expresses implicit feelings like chanting. The last two phrases of the song are the same as the first two phrases, and the echo before and after enhances the unity of the whole song, and further artistically reflects the love of acacia.
The whole song can be said to be structured in a lyrical, tactful, regular, neat, peaceful and sad atmosphere. Therefore, what "Red Bean Ci" says and complains is by no means poetic, but contains the complaint of pain and sadness. Therefore, the performance of singing must be clear about the author, and then the idea can be understood, and then its artistic conception can be expressed.
The first eight sentences of this poem all contain the word "no". Blood and tears are inexhaustible, flowers and willows are inexhaustible, and I still can't fall asleep after dusk. Sorrow and lovesickness are endless, and even the most expensive food can't be swallowed. The beautiful face has long since disappeared, and my brow is always tight, and time is hard to get. Among them, it is progressive step by step, telling me all about lovesickness.