Lyrics of "Ode to Lychee" Cantonese Opera

Title: Ode to Lychee

Singer: Red Threads

Lyrics: Chan Kwun Hing

Composer: Chan Kwun Hing

Selling lychees, there is a red quilt on the outside of the Lychee

Lightly gauze and thin brocade jade ball, it tastes delicious in your mouth

Tooth and cheeks are rare in the world, what is that

But you're just messing with the trick, please try it

I tell you, it's the best lychee in Lingnan

The king of fruits, all the people are happy with it. I'll tell you, it's the best fruit in Lingnan, the beautiful lychee

The king of fruits, everyone agrees

Saying lychee, a ride on the red dust consort laughs

Early for lychee wrote an ode to Dong Po was deported to Lingnan

Daily bite of lychee more than 300, a good good fruit

The varieties are different, refreshing flavor of cinnamon

Fat and thick glutinous rice patties, lychee ripe early in the morning

March red is famous, Zengcheng city is famous, the lychee early in the morning

The lychee is the most popular, and it has been the most important thing in the world, and it is the best thing for the people. >The March red is famous, the Zengcheng hanging green is famous

Black leaf lychee is sweet and crispy, the country girl

with a group of young men, picking fruits in groups

Singing on both sides of the Pearl River, ten thousand boats and thousands of sails

To carry lychee, to talk about lychee

One fruit and one wood is not easy to come by, how many gardeners sweating and rain

In exchange for the ten thousand purples and thousands of reds, the branches hanging brocade bombs

They are the most important thing that you can do for your family and your children.

Extended information:

The "Ode to Lychee" was originally sung by a Cantonese opera singer.

Song background

"Ode to Lychee" author, people can not forget, people in the theater line nicknamed "Uncle Qing" - the famous screenwriter Chen Guanqing. Uncle Qing" wrote the first Cantonese opera "Broken Rain and Broken Clouds" for He Feifan, a popular Cantonese opera singer, in the 1940s, and has been with the playwright for more than 50 years.

Because he is well versed in the secrets of opera and the music of the "hut-men", as well as having a profound knowledge of poetry and ancient literature, his works are both literary and musical. He has written more than a hundred Cantonese operas, which have been popular with several generations of old masters.

"Uncle Qing" was particularly fond of "Dream of Red Mansions". In the 1940s, his "The Love Monk Stealing to Xiaoxiang Pavilion" filled up the Guangzhou Haizhu Theater for hundreds of performances, and made He Feifan famous. After that, "Baoyu Weeping" and "Yihong Gongzi Mourning Jinchuan" were popularized by Chen Xiaofeng, Luo Jiabao, and Lin Jinping.