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Videos include: "Flowers" by Tomomi Sakamoto and Shoki Kina (Japanese version of "Flower Heart")
When it comes to Zhou Huajian, most people will start with "Flower Heart".
Hua Jian in this MV, wearing a large cardigan, with aaron Kwok-style hairstyle in the 1990s, sings this warm and soft song, those exquisite melodies, exquisite choreography, just the right harmony, together with Qi Qin and Old Wolf, opened the textbook of music enlightenment for a child born in the coastal countryside of the southern country.
"The heart of the flower, hidden in the bud, misses the flowering period in the air; your tears, crystal clear, there must be dreams in your heart..."
If you remember the prelude to this song, you can definitely appreciate its lethality to the young boys and girls of that year.
The so-called preconceived notions, and Huajian is also a well-known singer-songwriter, students who are not careful enough, it is easy to think that this "Flower Heart" is Zhou Huajian's own signature song.
However, it is not.
The song "Flower Heart", included in Hua Jian's 1993 album of the same name, Chinese filler lyrics Li Manting, composed by Japanese folk singer Heina Changji, and he is not all creative, but based on Okinawan folk songs, the theme is to express the love for flowers, and the desire to walk with them.
Excerpt a lyric to see —
The river is flowing where you're going to go
People are also flowing, and you are flowing where you are going
Where the flow stops
There will be flowers Beautiful flowers
Open for you to the wind
……
Flowers have flowers smiling
People also have tears of sadness
But it was the song of nature
Let the flowers bloom in your heart and in your heart
Chinese words are more popular, and Japanese words are more philosophical, each with its own advantages.
"Flower" here refers to peace and beauty. This is the ideal in the heart of Japanese lyricist Kina Changji.
HinaChangji is quite legendary. As a Okinawan folk singer, his greatest ambition is to "replace weapons with instruments" and call for world peace. He practiced it and used music to spread his ideas for decades, and this "Flower" is his most influential peace song, in addition to Zhou Huajian, American singer Henry Kaiser, David Lindley and Indonesian, Thai and other singers have covered it.
As a singer who has entered the political arena, he has his own ideals of politics: replacing weapons with musical instruments and turning military bases into gardens!" Let's make Koizumi's heart blossom with flowers! Let us make Bush's heart blossom with flowers! "Such a simple and beautiful idea, there is really a bit of the legacy of the hippies of that year.
This song has a wonderful interpretation of both the Japanese version and the Chinese version. In the Chinese world, it is estimated that no one can sing more appropriately than Hua Jian. As for the Japanese version, the original author Kina Masayoshi and the famous singers Androme Sakamoto and Rimi Natsukawa are all remarkable, each with its own purpose.