越人歌 Song of the Yue Boatman 男中音吴翰卫 Baritone MARTIN NG

越人歌
Song of the Yue Boatman
作曲：刘青 Music by Liu Qing
作词：刘尚【汉】Text by Liu Shang (Han Dynasty 1st Century BC)
Recorded live on 28 September 2023
at Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore
Baritone MARTIN NG
Pianist BEATRICE LIN
The Song of the Yue Boatman is a short song in an unknown language of southern China said to have been recorded around 528 BC. A transcription using Chinese characters, together with a Chinese version, is preserved in the Garden of Stories compiled by Liu Xiang five centuries later.
The song appears in a story within a story in the Shànshuō (善說) chapter of the Garden of Stories. A minister of the state of Chu, who is infatuated with an attractive nobleman, the Lord of Xiangcheng, relates to him an incident in which the 6th-century BC prince Zixi (子晳), the Lord of È (鄂), on an excursion on his state barge, was intrigued by the singing of his Yue boatman, and asked for an interpreter to translate it. It was a song of praise of the rural life, expressing the boatman's secret pleasure at knowing the prince.
Song of the Yue Boatman
What a beautiful night is this?
Drifting down midstream of the river.
What a lucky day is this?
To be on the same boat with the prince.
Too bashful to stare, a secret I cannot share.
My heart fills with longings, to know you,
Trees live on mountains and branches live on trees,
and there's my heart enamoured of you, but you will never know.
越人歌
今夕何夕兮，搴舟中流。
今日何日兮，得与王子同舟。
蒙羞被好兮，不訾诟耻。
心几烦而不绝兮，得知王子。
山有木兮木有枝，心悦君兮君不知。
山有木兮木有枝，心悦君兮君不知，心悦君兮君不知。
刘向（BC 77-BC 6 ）
刘向是汉高祖之弟楚元王刘交的玄孙。据刘向所编订的《楚辞》记载：春秋时代，楚王母弟鄂君子皙在河中游玩，钟鼓齐鸣。摇船者是位越人，趁乐声刚停，便抱双桨用越语唱了一支歌。
歌中唱出了越人对子皙的那种深沉真挚的爱恋之情，歌词 声义双关，委婉动听。是古代楚越文化交融的结晶和见证。它对楚辞创作有着直接的影响作用。其中“山有木兮木有枝，心悦君兮君不知”一句最为经典：是诗人在非常情感化的叙事和理性描述自己心情之后的情感抒发，此时的诗人已经将激动紊乱的意绪梳平，因此这种情感抒发十分艺术化，用字平易而意蕴深长，馀韵袅袅。

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謝謝你！

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