Lyrics of Picking Tea Dance Song
Origin: Yueju Opera
From: Folklore
Nature: Dance Song
Language: Wu
Lyrics 1
The stream is clear and the water is long
The Picking Tea Dance Song
The two sides of the stream are very nice
Yes, you are planting rice in Fanfan
Sister, you are busy picking tea in East Mountain and West Mountain
Planting rice is very joyful
There is a great deal of happiness in the planting of tea plants.
Busy picking tea on both sides of the stream
Sister, picking tea is like a phoenix nodding its head
Sister, picking tea is like a fish jumping into a net
Row by row, row by row
Picked leaves in the basket
Thousands of strands, thousands of strands, tens of thousands of strands
Small strands of new tea, fresh scent
How to save money, how to save time. Picking tea
The new tea is sent to the towns and villages
Sent to the towns and villages
The left hand picks the tea, the right hand picks the tea
The two hands and the two eyes work together
One hand goes first and the other hand comes second
It's just like the two roosters competing for the rice
The two baskets are hanging on the two bladders
The two hands have to be separated in the tea picking process
The two hands have to be divided. Once and again
No dizziness
No blurred vision
Shake and shake
There is tea for every year's harvest
Lyrics 2
The stream is clear and the water is long
The two sides of the stream are so beautiful
Brother, you're hard at work planting rice seedlings
Sister, you're busy picking tea in the east and west mountains.
Plugging rice seedlings with joyful joy
Picking tea with blossom
Plugging rice seedlings evenly and quickly
Picking tea with fragrance
You are not afraid of tiring yourself when you are chasing after me
Dare to fight with the God for the springtime light
Oh, fight for the springtime light
Picking tea from the left, picking tea from the right
Picking tea from the left, picking tea from the right
Hand and hand at the same time
One hand first, one hand first, two hands first.
One hand first, one hand second
Like two roosters fighting over rice
Two tea baskets hanging from two bladders
Two hands picking tea should be separated
Picked once and then again
No dizziness
No blindness
Much and much (and come to be) fast
Yearly harvest of Longjing tea
The Expanded Information:
The Tea Picking Dance Song. Zhejiang Province folk song. Zhou Dafeng's lyrics and music, composed in 1958. Originally the theme song and dance score for the Yueju Opera "Before the Rain", later adapted from the song into a dance skit "Tea Picking Dance"." Tea Picking" was originally a Chinese folk song and dance genre, popular in the southern tea-producing areas, used to express the joy of tea planting and tea picking.
This tea-picking dance maintains the basic style of traditional tea-picking songs and dances, adopting the national pentatonic mode, with alternating modal material, the tune is cheerful and jumping, reproducing the youthful appearance of the tea-picking girl. The Tea Picking Dance was once extremely popular in the 1950s, with a large social impact, and was even more popular in the 1970s when it was sung by Zhu Fengbo, a famous singer in China.