happy chinese new year... (1 Viewer)

[ThomasC]

Know of a Mandarin version, Ted? It's still amusing in Cantonese, but it'd be even better if I could understand at least some of the words that they're saying.

 

[Ted Lee]

sorry thomas - my aunt sent me that, but i'll see if she has a mandarin version.

don't feel bad...i barely understood any of it either. you should hear me try to talk to my grandmother. she still tells me i talk like a 5 year old - that is, after she checks to see if i'm warm enough, still working, and eating right.

 

[felix_suwarno]

i thought it had captions? in what language was it?

dang i AM chinese, but we dont speak chinese anymore. almost nobody does, because i was born in jakarta.

 

[Yee-Ming]

let me add Gong Xi Fa Cai!

(around here we use Hanyu Pinyin).

sigh, first year where I'm no longer eligible for red packets (funny that you lot are referring to them as "bags"). on the flip side I haven't been forced to give any either.

BTW, that MTV skit was pretty funny, Felix it was captioned in Chinese, mostly simplified script Hong Kong style, if you ask me. I don't understand Cantonese, barely caught a third of the text version. but it's a old-ish CNY pop song that's been around for as long as I can remember, although I don't think I've ever heard it in Mandarin, only Cantonese (sorry Thomas).

 

[felix_suwarno]

is there a way to save the animation on my hard drive?

that piece of work is really amazing.

 

[felix_suwarno]

btw what is the title of that song.

 

[Yee-Ming]

Felix, my guess would be "Choy Shan Dao" (Cantonese), "Cai Shen Dao" (Mandarin), meaning "Prosperity God Arrives".

 

[John Thomas]

Here's a nifty little site I found: Link Removed

Looks like it has sheep instead of ram. It refers to this year as the year of the black sheep. ?

After watching that flash bit, I thought they were singing Oh Bla Di for a minute there.

 

[Danny Tse]

Yes, the title of the song is "Choy Shan Dao", the title track to Sam Hui's 1978 album, which was also a tribute to Elvis Presley. Sam Hui is not only the most important figure in HK pop music in the last 30 years, but one of the biggest stars in HK film history; Jet Li took over his title role in "The Swordsman" series after Sam Hui announced his retirement in 1991. His retirement concerts of 41 straight sellout shows is still a standing record in HK, over 10 years after his retirement. Both John Woo and Tsui Hark spoke at his retirement (when he was just 44 years old!!) tribute.



A modern Chinese New Year Classic!!

P.S. Check out this website dedicated to Sam Hui. You may recognize Sam Hui's older brother Michael Hui from movies such as "Cannonball Run" and "The Chinese Box".