| "Blue and White Porcelain" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Jay Chou | |
| from the album On the Run! | |
| English title | Blue and White Porcelain |
| Released | 2 November 2007 |
| Length | 3:59 |
| Label | JVR Music |
| Composer(s) | Jay Chou |
| Lyricist(s) | Vincent Fang |
"Blue and White Porcelain" (青花瓷) is a Chinese style song written by Vincent Fang, arranged by Baby Chung (鍾興民), and composed and sung by Jay Chou. The song uses the main melody of the Chinese pentatonic scale "Palace mode" (宮調式)..[1] In 2008, Jay Chou sang "Blue and White Porcelain" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.[2]
History
Originally, Vincent Fang wanted to name the song "Bronze", because bronze is not romantic enough to change the Song dynasty's "Ru ware" for the song title, however, the Ru ware of the word "Ru" would give rise to unflattering associations, and coupled with the romantic elegance of porcelain, Vincent Fang finally decided to use porcelain as the title of the song.[3][4] At first, the word "porcelain"(青花瓷) was misheard by Jay Chou as "frog pond"(青蛙池).[4][5]
The song won the 19th Golden Melody Awards for Best Song of the Year,[6] Best Lyricist of the Year, and Best Composer of the Year, while Jay Chou won the awards for Best Composer and Best Album Producer,[6] with Vincent Fang receiving the awards on his behalf due to Jay Chou's absence.[7]
Repercussions
A high school in Wuhan, China, used the lyrics of "Blue and White Porcelain" as a mimeographed topic for a language exam,[8] and on 13 June 2008, celadon appeared on a basic aptitude test exam question for the Shandong, China college entrance exam.[9]
To create a hazy mood, celadon porcelain omits words with grammatical landmarks.[10][11] In the Peking University admissions test held in Chengdu,China on New Year's Day 2009, the question asked students to point out "The vegetal embryo outlines a blue and white brush stroke that is thicker than light, and the peony depicted on the bottle is just like your first makeup."(Chinese : 素胚勾勒出青花筆鋒濃轉淡瓶身描繪的牡丹一如妳初妝) Grammatical Errors in the Lyrics of Blue and White Porcelain.[12]
Collector (马未都) said in the lyrics of the song "in the bottom of the bottle book Han Li imitation of the previous dynasty's ease"(Chinese : 在瓶底書漢隸仿前朝的飄逸) in the "Clerical script" should be changed to "small seal script", The reason is that after the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty, only the small seal script is written on the bottom of the blue and white Porcelain, not the Clerical script, and the lyrics of the song "copying the Sung style of inscription, but thinking of you"(Chinese : 臨摹宋體落款時卻惦記著你) in the word "Sung"(宋) should be replaced by the word "Regular"(Regular script,楷), because in the history of Chinese ceramics, the Sung style of inscription is t is only found in the enameled porcelains of the three dynasties of the High Qing era, and there is no Sung style of writing on the blue and white porcelain.[12][13]
Blue and White Porcelain has an unofficial adapted version of the chemistry version,[14] adapted by Qiu Wei, a teacher at Leshan No. 1 Middle School, to which Jay Chou said, "This chemistry teacher is great!" and invited him to sing the chemistry version of Celadon with him on stage.[15] There is also a tribute to Steve Jobs[16]
In addition the song triggered a certain amount of celadon collection fever, in 2008 the celadon collection enthusiasts in Chengdu and Chongqing, China steeply increased to tens of thousands of people from a few hundred in 2007.[17]
References
- ^ "《青花瓷》《秋风渐》探讨中国风歌曲本质". 网易娱乐. 21 August 2009. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019.
- ^ "周杰伦春晚要唱《青花瓷》". 网易. 10 January 2008. Archived from the original on 3 February 2017.
- ^ "周杰伦《青花瓷》差点被毙 公司：唱青蛙池？". 腾讯. 28 January 2014. Archived from the original on 10 June 2019.
- ^ a b "方文山称养分来自阅读 青花瓷曾被误为"青蛙池"". 中国日报网. 23 December 2013. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017.
- ^ "方文山：周杰伦曾将"青花瓷"理解成"青蛙池"". 中国新闻网. 23 March 2014. Archived from the original on 5 June 2019.
- ^ a b 华商报 (6 July 2008). "金曲奖落幕 周杰伦《青花瓷》获最佳年度歌曲". 腾讯.
- ^ "获最佳年度歌曲奖：周杰伦《青花瓷》". 新浪娱乐. 5 July 2008. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019.
- ^ "周杰伦《青花瓷》成考题引质疑". 钱江晚报. 6 December 2007. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ "周杰伦《青花瓷》歌词上2008年山东高考考题". 中国新闻网. 13 June 2008. Archived from the original on 20 December 2017.
- ^ "歌曲《青花瓷》有语病？". 宝安日报. 6 January 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "周杰伦《青花瓷》歌词中有病句吗". 解放日报. 26 January 2009. Archived from the original on 9 November 2016.
- ^ a b "《青花瓷》错误有几多？". 中国青年网. 6 January 2009. Archived from the original on 24 February 2020.
- ^ "收藏家：《青花瓷》歌词有错". 钱江晚报. 18 March 2008. Archived from the original on 6 July 2018.
- ^ "化学版青花瓷：记住这首歌就记住了中学化学知识点". 搜狐. 22 July 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ "乐山一中老师受邀与周杰伦同台演绎化学版《青花瓷》". 四川新闻网. 13 December 2012. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019.
- ^ "网友改编歌曲《青花瓷》向乔布斯致敬". 凤凰网. 8 October 2011. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019.
- ^ "周杰伦引发青花瓷收藏热". 华西都市报. 30 July 2008.[dead link]
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