Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 660 Poetry is here
Although he has the advantage of being reborn, Yu Dong doesn't know much about music, so he can only take care of the general direction, and it's better to hand over the details to Cheng Yanqiu.

Moreover, Cheng Yanqiu was also very concerned about this matter, so Yu Dong took advantage of the situation and handed it over to her.

Speaking of "The End of the World", it was indeed intercepted at that time.

Once before, Yu Dong asked Yu Yu to show him all the songs written by Jay Chou recently. At that time, "The End of the World" was in that document, and this song had already been reserved by Wu Zongxian and his group Xibiduhua .

It was Yu Dong who cut down the song and left it for Jay Chou to sing it himself.

Cheng Yanqiu listed the ten songs she chose on a piece of paper, and then looked at the score and lyrics one by one.

After reading it, Cheng Yanqiu put the notebook on his lap.

"The time you gave him was too short, and he was alone. The arrangement of these songs was more or less problematic and not rich enough. After you decide to make an album, you must grasp the arrangement. And , the lyrics are the same, I always feel that it is not good enough, you can help me look at this one."

Yu Dong looked at the notebook and asked, "Which lyrics do you think are problematic?"

"'Lovely Woman' and 'Tornado', everything else is fine."

Yu Dong nodded. There were indeed some problems with the lyrics of the two songs, and he was also struggling with how to solve the problem of the lyrics.

Finding Xu Ruoxuan is definitely not enough. No matter what the purpose is, artists like Xu Ruoxuan must not be allowed to get in touch with Jay Chou.

And even if Xu Ruoxuan is approached now, she may not be able to write these lyrics.

Since Xu Ruoxuan can't be found, there are two ways left.

One is to collect lyrics again, regardless of whether they are from the previous life or not, as long as the lyrics are good, they will be used.

The other is that Yu Dong did it himself and filled in the lyrics.

Seeing Yu Dong's tangled face, Cheng Yanqiu asked curiously: "Isn't it just about the lyrics? Why do you seem so tangled up? The lyrics are also easy to solve. Why don't you hold a solicitation contest on the Deep Space Chinese Network? Don't you often Why do you want to promote Xiao Zhou's album in advance?"

As the proprietress of Shenkong, Cheng Yanqiu is very familiar with the marketing routines of Shenkong Company, so when he thought of the lyrics just now, he thought of collecting lyrics on the Shenkong Chinese website and promoting the album by the way.

Yu Dong smiled and waved his hands, "Forget it, I'll write these two songs."

After thinking about it for a while, Yu Dong still decided to do it himself and fill in the lyrics of these two songs. As for the lyrics of "Istanbul", Yu Dong decided not to reproduce them, so he asked someone to rewrite them.

Cheng Yanqiu didn't expect Yu Dong to write it himself, and was quite surprised, "Are you sure you want to write lyrics for Xiao Zhou?"

Yu Dong smiled and said, "Let's just create momentum for him."

Cheng Yanqiu also laughed, "Xiao Zhou is really lucky."

……

Jessica has been practicing the piano recently, practicing the piano crazily, because Deep Space Company is going to give her an album, and she agrees.

During this period of time, she has been practicing the few tracks that are going to be recorded, and she wants to show a perfect state when recording.

"Jessica, Hardison is here."

Mother's voice came from downstairs, and as soon as her voice fell, the sound of Hardison's footsteps clattering upstairs had already reached Jessica's ears.

The hurried footsteps suddenly slowed down when they reached the door, and then there was a knock on the door, "Jessica, can I go in?"

Jessica didn't speak, but lightly tapped the piano keys twice. Hardison outside understood, and pushed the door in.

This is a code belonging to the two of them, one tap is not enough, and two taps are all right.

After entering, Hardison opened the curtains first to let the sunlight penetrate into the room from the outside.

Jessica likes to draw the curtains when practicing the piano. She thinks that in this way, she will not be distracted by the scenery outside and can concentrate more on practicing the piano.

When the room was bright, Hardison walked up to Jessica, "Jessica, guess what's in here?"

Only then did Jessica notice that Hardison was holding a box in his hand.

It was a black box, smaller than a shoe box, with a beautiful bow tied on the outside.

Before Jessica could respond, Hardison opened the lid of the box: "La la la la, a memorial book of ancient poetry produced by Deep Space Corporation."

Inside the box was a thin book with an ancient Chinese building on the cover, a moon hanging in the sky, and several flowers in the yard were blown crooked by the wind.

There are also a few lines of Chinese characters on the side of the cover.

Hardison pointed to these lines and said with a smile: "This is a poem, and what it is about is this cover."

Jessica became interested and asked Hardison, "Can you understand this poem?"

Asked by Jessica, Hardison scratched his head shyly, "I can only know a little bit, but there is a detailed explanation of this poem in this booklet, you can read it at the back."

Jessica nodded and took out the booklet from the box.

There are not many pages, but they are all colorful thick pages with a very good texture.

Jessica didn't rush to read the poem analysis later, but stared at the picture on the cover for a while.

The painting produced by Deep Space Company is very well done. Although there is no one person in the whole painting, it can be seen at a glance that there are two people in the painting.

There must be a person inside the half-open room door, with the faint light and faint shadows.

There should also be a person in the corridor. Although there is no person in the corridor, the shadow of the flowers is very special, and it looks like a person.

After reading the cover, Jessica opened the analysis behind it.

Obviously there are only a few lines of words, but the analysis is very long.

This is a poem written by Yuan Zhen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty in China, borrowing the handwriting of Yingyingzhi in his novel "Hui Zhen Ji".

In "Hui Zhen Ji", Zhang Sheng loves Yingying, and the matchmaker persuades him to propose marriage, and at the same time tells him that he should not use rude words to pursue Yingying, but should write love poems. Zhang Sheng listened to the matchmaker's advice and wrote two poems for Yingying. love poems...

Later, the two fell in love, and Yingying often waited in the room for Zhang Sheng to come over the wall to have a tryst, and thus wrote the song "Three and Five Nights of the Bright Moon".

"Under the moon and the west chamber, the windward door is half open. The shadows of the flowers blowing against the wall are moving, and it is suspected that the jade man has come."

The meaning of this song is very simple. At night, Yingying half-opens the door of the room, waiting for Zhang Sheng to come to meet him. It tells the mentality of a girl in love.

When seeing this explanation, Jessica's face immediately turned red.

She suddenly thought of herself, and occasionally she would have the same thoughts as this Yingying.

Sometimes he would suspect that Hardison was coming because of the sound of footsteps on the stairs.

Is this guy looking for this poem on purpose?

Seeing Jessica's face flushed, Hardison asked in confusion, "Jessica, what's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing."

Jessica rolled her eyes and continued to read the following poems.

There is also a Tang poem and a Song Ci at the back.

They are Liu Yuxi's "Bamboo Branch Ci" and Li Qingzhao's "Like a Dream: Chang Ji Xi Ting Sunset", both of which are poems related to the love between men and women.

Jessica looked at Hardison suspiciously: "Hardison, these three poems were specially selected by you, right? You must have done it on purpose."

"Ah?" Monk Zhang Er of Hardison couldn't figure it out, "No, I didn't make a special selection. Deep Space released three poems this time, and I printed them all. The announcement said, this is the first batch, a total of There are three poems, together with pictures and analysis, they can be combined into ten pages, which can be assembled into a booklet. If there are other poems, I will definitely not let them go, I think ten pages is still a bit short."

"Is it really just three poems?" Jessica asked.

Hardison nodded in response, "Of course, if you don't believe me, you can go to the Amazon website or the official website of Deep Space to have a look. Both of them have already issued an announcement. It also said in the announcement that the second batch will be released next week, or Three poems, and I’ve pre-ordered them, and they’ll be sent directly to me.”

Jessica nodded, looked inside the box again, and asked, "Did you only print one copy this time?"

Hardison shook his head and smiled and said, "Of course not, this one is for you, and I have another one for myself. In addition, I also ordered one for your grandmother, which has been placed in the living room below. She must be sure when she sees it. Would love this gift."

"Well, sure."

Jessica nodded in agreement. Her grandmother is a loyal reader of YU, and because she likes YU, she is now very keen on the study of Chinese culture.

After YU wrote a bunch of ancient poems at the signing event last time, she also fell in love with ancient Chinese poetry. During this time, there were many books related to ancient Chinese poetry in the house, and she was also learning Chinese.

But it seems that the effect is not good. Jessica can often hear her grandmother complaining that Chinese is too difficult and ancient Chinese poetry is too difficult.

Moreover, the books she bought didn't seem to be very good. The introduction to ancient Chinese poetry was superficial and she couldn't understand it at all.

As for the thing made by Shenkong, not only the analysis is very clear and simple, but also the pictures are very well done, which fits well with the content of the poem.

Grandma would be ecstatic if she saw this.

But Jessica still doesn't understand why the three poems published by Deep Space Company are all about the love between men and women. Is it true that most Chinese poems are about men and women?
That’s not right. Jessica has also paid attention to ancient Chinese poetry before. There are many themes, and there are many things to talk about. There are also many very high-minded and heavy themes.

……

What Jessica didn't know was that the first three poems in Deep Space were poems about love, which were the result of special research by their special group.

After discussing with Yang Minru, Mo Lifeng and Yang Minru agreed that if they want to attract readers from abroad, they must start with love themes.

Love is a common topic for human beings, and in ancient Chinese poetry, the theme of love is indeed very brilliant.

Poems with heavy themes must also be exported, but there is no rush now, let’s open the market first.

Facts have proved that Mo Lifeng and Yang Minru's thoughts are completely correct.

After the commemorative card of ancient Chinese poetry in the deep space came out, it was first circulated among readers in Yudong, but it spread out quickly.

Many American students saw that the above poems could express love, so they followed suit and copied the poems into their love letters.

Especially the "Zhu Zhi Ci" is the most popular, and in this poem, the last two lines are the most popular.

"When the sun rises in the east and rains in the west, the Tao is not sunny but sunny."

After reading the analysis, the students also understood that there was a pun in it, which associated sunny days with love.

Although American students are much more unrestrained than Chinese students, there is no essential difference in the minds of boys and girls. They also like this kind of puns, which sound very compelling and very profound love poems.

Can't understand at a glance?

It doesn't matter, it's right if you don't understand it, and it's great if you don't understand it.

Of course, the incomprehensible situation quickly disappeared.

Because these two poems became popular so quickly, soon all the boys and girls in the school knew about this poem, and the love letters written by many people were taken out for a look, and the checking rate was [-]%.

That's how these ancient Chinese poems became popular in the United States in the form of love letters.

……

Chen Mobai just opened the Deep Space Chinese website when he saw a hot post.

[I was confessed in ancient Chinese poetry by a native American in the United States. 】

The content of the post is very simple. A boy of Chinese descent received a love letter at school, and the love letter was written in Chinese poetry.

The post owner is not a Chinese boy himself, he claims to be the boy’s cousin, lives in China, and after talking with his cousin on the phone, he was shocked to hear about this incident, so he shared it.

There is also proof of this in the replies.

[Pigeons in the world are not generally white: I also heard from my relatives that ancient Chinese poetry has indeed become popular in the United States recently. 】

[Charge Knife: What's going on, why did it suddenly become popular? 】

[Master Ronald: It wasn't sudden. I heard that it became popular in the summer, but it wasn't as strong as this time. 】

[Flying Big Clumsy Bear: I know something. Deep Space Company cooperated with Flash Printing and Amazon to make a commemorative book of ancient poetry, which should have been released. 】

【Mai Mang: Do these foreigners really know the meaning of these poems? 】

[Master Ronald: Don't worry, this commemorative booklet has an analysis. 】

[Jin Kefan: That’s right, the commemorative booklet of ancient Chinese poetry produced by Deep Space this time is jointly produced by our Jinling University, Yanjing Normal University and Jinyi University, and the quality is very high. 】

[Master Ronald: I said how did Big Clumsy Bear know about this? It turned out that you, the team leader, told him. 】

[Flying Big Stupid Bear: Don't spread rumors. 】

[Master Ronald: What did I say... The team leader, tell me in detail, how do you three schools cooperate? 】

[Jin Kefan: What I know is not particularly specific. I only know that teacher Mo Lifeng from our school, teacher Yang Minru from Yanjing Normal University, and teacher Liu Changmin from Jinyi, are three-party cooperation. 】

[Oriental Spider: Teacher Mo Lifeng and Teacher Yang Minru are both very good, let alone Americans, I want a copy of both. 】

[Blank paper is not paper: That thing is not cheap, at least [-] cents to print a piece of paper, and five dollars for ten pages, plus shipping. 】

[Princess Yueshi: I'll go, it's so expensive. 】

[Oriental Spider: Knowledge is priceless. 】

(End of this chapter)