"Jasmine Flower" is a folk song from Nanjing.
"Jasmine Flower", a famous Chinese folk song, has a long history, first originated in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and was first named "Fresh Flower Tune", which has always been a folk tune. There are several versions of "Jasmine Flower" circulating in different regions of China, and the tunes and lyrics of each version are often similar.
Nowadays, the most widely circulated versions are the folk songs in the areas of Liuhui, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Tianchang to Taizhou. The Jasmine Flower has a very high status among Chinese folk songs and is even more popular among Chinese and Western musicians at home and abroad.
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In addition to the Chinese version of "Jasmine Flower," there are also overseas versions of the song in Japan and the Ryukyu version of "Jasmine Flower", both of which are different from the Chinese style. The Chinese folk song "Jasmine Flower" was brought to Nagasaki, Japan by Chinese traders during the Edo period and became a famous piece of local Qing music.
The Japanese version of "Jasmine Flower" is most similar to the Chinese version from Fujian. In 1803, Ota Nammu compiled a song called "Bunshanghua" in his "Hengen Mashibi," which is the Japanese version of "Jasmine Flower," and the Japanese version of "Jasmine Flower" is "Bunshanghua.
Jasmine Flower" is also included in the "Hanayuki Zither Score", a Qing music score compiled in 1831, but the title of the song is recorded as "Hanyan Qu". The Japanese version of "Jasmine" has many names, but the name is often misrecorded as "Mureihua".