攬月吟風 -- Classical Poetry Recitation

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「大漢清韻」壹零伍年度詩詞雅樂發表會

～ 攬月吟風 ～

演出日期：2016 年 10 月 13 日（星期四）
演出時間：晚上 7:30 ~ 9:30 （七點進場）
演出地點：台中市中山堂（台中市北區學士路 98 號）

演出曲目：分為第一單元「凌雲攬月」和第二單元「把盞吟風」，共有 23 個節目。舉例如下：

(01) 序曲：月亮代表我的心  performed by 四度Ｃ樂團（主唱：尤麗雲）   (02) 月出（詩經 . 陳風）   (03) 水調歌頭　by 蘇軾   (04) 青玉案　by 辛棄疾   (05) 宣州謝眺樓餞別校書叔雲　by 李白   (06) 一剪梅　by 李清照  performed by 四度Ｃ樂團（主唱：黃月琴  [Click and listen]）   (07) 靜夜思　by 李白   (08) 春思　by 皇甫冉   (09) 嫦娥　by 李商隱   (10) 楓橋夜泊　by 張繼   (11) 景薰樓觀月　by 林獻堂   (12) 臨江仙　by 楊慎   (13) ....

Last night there was a classical poetry recitation (formally called 大漢清韻 105 年度詩詞雅樂發表會) held at Taichung Zhongshan Hall (台中市中山堂), located at 98, Xueshi Rd., North District, Taichung City.

The performances started at 7:30 p.m. and lasted about 1.5 hours, including the reading, chanting, and singing of over twenty pieces of poetry (some called shi and others called ci in Mandarin). These poems were not presented in Mandarin Chinese, nor in the modern Taiwanese; but they were chanted and sung in the traditional Hô-lo̍k (河洛), a language that is believed to sound much more similar to the traditional language which was popular in the times when the recited poems were written -- mostly in the Tang (唐) and Song (宋) dynasties.

Because Jean (my wife) took part in the performances, quite a number of our good friends and some of her former students, as well as my mom and our daughter-in-law and our grandson Little Bee and me, went to the Hall as part of the audience. We did have a wonderful time last night, watching so many good poems presented on the stage in such an impressive way!

Wo Hui Pa Shu (我會爬樹)

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"Ni hui pa shu ma?" Nainai wen sunzi.

"Hui a!" sunzi huida, "Wo dangran hui. Women shi houzi jiazu (= monkey family)."

"Shi ma?" Wo renbuzhu dui women de xiao sunzi shuo: "Wo gen nainai jiu bu shi houzi -- Women yinggai shi changjinglu jiazu ba!" (= I said to the 6-year-old boy, "Neither Grandma nor I am a monkey. We should be a giraffe family, instead.")

"Bu, bu! Women shi houzi jiazu." Zhe ganggang nian youeryuan daban de xiao nanhai zhenzhen-youci de shou. Buguan zenyang, ta jiu shi renwei, dang houzi jiazu de chengyuan bijiao haowan! (= Anyway, the boy insists that it would be better to be a monkey, than to be any other kind of animal!)

照片轉分享：Nice Pictures Re-Shared

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The 15 pictures below are just a small part of the many that Ms. Catherine Lee has previously shared on Facebook. These nice pictures, closely related to me, are copied from her blog article entitled:

"I love CMS! A Great Big Welcome to Taiwan for Raj Patel, CMS Regional Manager for Asia ~ all the way from Oxford ~ YES!" (Click and read.)

In her article, Catherine describes Mr. Raj Patel's visit to Taiwan in detail, in a marvelous style. And she has added a great number of pictures to her description. Both the words and the photos are well organized; they are coherently arranged, exactly following the chronological (or time) order! ...

Well, to get back to the subject, the following 15 pictures are an impressive record of our activities on Sunday, October 2. For more information, please see my blog post, Our Special Visitor; My New Friend.