What is the background of the song "酒干干倘卖无":
《酒干倘卖无》is the theme song of the 1983 movie "The Wrong Ride", which tells the story of a mute uncle of a war veteran and an abandoned baby. The veteran scavenges for rags for a living.
One morning in the winter of 1958, Uncle Mute retrieved an abandoned baby girl in a high-class residential area and named her Mei. Since then, the mute uncle has been both father and mother, and the father-daughter duo have struggled through hard times and poverty to raise Ah Mei on their meager income. With the help of a young composer, Shi Junmai, Ami became a popular singer.
Unexpectedly, after Ah Mei became famous, she forgot the kindness of her mute uncle to her. At a concert, Shi Junmai wanted to see Ami's father when he was near Ami's house. Walking up to Ami's father's window, a neighbor told Shi Junmai that Ami's father used the trumpet sound of "Wine Dried and Sold for Nothing" to make Ami joyful since she was a child, Shi Junmai got inspired and instead of meeting Ami's father, he immediately went back to his house and wrote a song for her in order to wake her up, which is this song "Wine Dried and Sold for Nothing".
Shijunmai mailed the song to her a few days before the concert. When Mei read the lyrics, she cried bitterly and kept learning the song, and all the scenes of her father's hard work in raising her came back to her like a tidal wave. Instead of complying with her manager's arrangement, May sang the song "Wine is Dry and Sold for Nothing," which offended the agency but firmly demonstrated that she was sorry and repentant for her past, regretting that she had taken the wrong ride on the wrong path in her life.
The phrase "酒干干若卖无" is a Southern Minnesota dialect that roughly translates to "do you have any bottles of wine for sale". The people who buy discarded empty bottles and sell them to recycling centers in southern Fujian and Taiwan to make a little money are walking the streets while shouting, "If you have a bottle of wine to sell, you don't have one. If anyone has empty bottles at home to sell, they will call out to the waste collector.
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Lyrics:
Jiu Gan If You Sell Nothing
What a familiar sound
How many years have I been with the winds and rains
Never need to think of it
Never forget it
Without the sky there is no land
Without the land there is no home
Without the land there is no home
Without you, you are the one who has to live.
Without a home there is no you
Without you there is no me
If you hadn't raised me
Given me a warm life
If you hadn't protected me
What would have been my destiny
You were the one who raised me
To say my first words
You were the one who gave me a home
Let me have it with you***
Though you can't speak a word
You understand the black and white of the world better
Though you can't express your true feelings
You have given a passionate life
What a familiar voice you have in the distance
Reminds me of what a kind heart you have
When will you come back to me? When will you come back to me again
Let me sing with you again
Wine and wine
What a familiar voice
How many years of winds and rains have accompanied me
Never need to think of it
Never forget it
Without the sky there is no land
Without the land there is no home
Without the home there is no you
Without you there is no home
Without you there is no home
Without you there is no home. home there is you
Without you there is me
How familiar is the voice
How many years have I been with the winds and the rain
Never need to think of it
Never forget
Wine is dry if you sell it for nothing
Song Appreciation:
The scenario in the drama is very symmetrical with the lyrics of the theme song, and the whole lyrics are actually an abbreviated version of the drama's story. The whole lyrics are actually an abbreviation of the play's story. "The tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop, the son wants to be raised but his parents are not there", teaching people to love and cherish their parents! (21CN Entertainment)
The song, "You raised me, said my first words with me, you gave me a home, let me have it with you***," is a melting pot of children's love for their fathers, reflecting the perfect combination of storytelling and musical interaction. Su Rui's singing voice is very tough, coupled with a wide range of sound caused by a strong sense of vicissitude, and with the most simple and most simple and tear-jerking music language to realize the fervent emotion in the moment of the outbreak. (NetEase Entertainment)
The main theme of the song, "Wine is dry if you sell nothing", tells people about the greatness of their fathers, reflecting the perfect combination of storytelling and music interaction. (Metropolis)
The movie made a big name for Su Rui, who sang the theme song and interlude for the movie. Songs such as "If You're Selling Anything", "Same Moonlight" and "Please Come With Me" became popular all over Taiwan, and then in mainland China and Hong Kong, with Su Rui's mesmerizing voice echoing in the streets and alleys. People soon realized that Su Rui's almost shouting singing was a kind of voice, a kind of "power" that had never existed in the Chinese singing world. And this power is not just the power of sound, but the singer's own unyielding vitality.