Ancient poems hit right note at school
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Setting ancient poetry to music is the Jiading Education Bureau鈥檚 latest effort to teach local students traditional Chinese culture.
鈥淒ream in spring morning never breaks, but birds twitter around my place.鈥 The lines from Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) poet Meng Haoran鈥檚 鈥淪pring Dawn鈥 are now the lyrics of a song.
It, along with 15 other examples, now features in songbooks which will be used by every student at public elementary schools in Jiading.
Wang Wei鈥檈r, a researcher of the district education bureau鈥檚 research and development center, picked the poems while Yi Fenglin, head of the bureau鈥檚 arts education office, wrote the music.
鈥淩ecitation is a way for students to learn the poems but singing may have a better effect,鈥 Wang said. 鈥淧icking the right poems is key.鈥
The pair follow two rules when they pick poems 鈥 they need to be catchy and espouse traditional values.
鈥溾楢 Traveler鈥檚 Song鈥 is about filial piety; 鈥楥ommiseration for Peasants鈥 is about frugality; 鈥楶lum blossom鈥 reflects strength,鈥 said Wang, expressing the hope that students will understand the meaning behind when they sing the poems.
Write music for the poems is a challenge to Yi. Although most of the assignments involve only 5 minutes of music for four short lines, 鈥渕elodies could be very complicated as it is not easy to explain the poems with music,鈥 Yi said.
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