鄧麗君 Teresa Teng 淡淡幽情 全12 首歌曲 Light Exquisite Feeling (full album)

The current upload is Teresa Teng's entire album,淡淡幽情 "Light Exquisite Feeling", published in 1983, featuring some poems written during the Southern Tang Dynasty (南唐) (937-975) and the Song Dynasty (宋) (960--1279). Of Miss Teng's 100+ albums, I consider this the best Mandarin album of her career. Future Chinese generations can glimpse at the rich cultural treasures of their mother country via these songs. For a general description of this album, please google "dan dan you qing", or "Light Exquisite Feeling".

As my focus is to spread Teresa Teng's legacy beyond her predominantly Asian fan base, I have provided full English translation of Teresa Teng's verbal introduction as well as for these 12 poem songs. Please understand that it is extremely difficult to translate classical Chinese poetry into contemporary English. Chinese syntax permits ambiguity, and a fair amount of redundancy with imagery. I can however honestly say that this has been my most ambitious yet honest effort in bridging the gap between East and West, and in promoting appreciation of Chinese culture via the music that our beloved Teresa Teng represents.

Let me thank melodydamor for having jointly translated 但願人長久 (dan yuan ren chang jiu) Wish We Live Long Lives, from Chinese to English with me. For the other joint English translation, 有誰知我此時情 (you shui zhi wo ci shi qing) Who Now Knows My Feeling, I want to thank gctlcda.

To provide more of a closer "personal feel" for us fans, I have edited a DVD clip containing 9 songs. I have added 3 song videos from the same album which are absent in this clip.

As three songs are from one particular poet, and three other songs having no specific introduction, I have re-organized the order of presentation, which is different from that of the Side A -- Side B format of the record CD, nevertheless containing the same twelve poem songs, as follows:

After Teresa Teng's opening introduction --

(From 02:13) 相看淚眼 (xiang kan lei yan), Teary Eyes At Each Other, 作詞：[宋]柳永《雨霖鈴》 Poem: Yu Lin Ling, by Liu Yong from the Song Dynasty

(From 06:01) 芳草無情 (fang cao wu qing) The Grass Has No Feeling. 作詞：[宋]范仲淹《蘇幕遮》Poem: Su Mu Zhe, by Fan Zhong-Yan from the Song Dynasty.

(From 09:03) 欲說還休 (yu shuo huai xiu) Refrain From Speaking My Mind 作詞：[宋]辛棄疾《醜奴兒》　Poem: Song of Ugly Slave, by Xin Qi-Ji from the Song Dynasty.

After a specific introduction to Li Yu (李煜):

(From 13:18) 胭 脂 淚 (yan zhi lei) Rouged Tears 詞牌: 烏夜啼 (Song lyrics: Bird Sings At Night)
[南唐] 李煜 相見歡詞 (Southern Tang) Li Yu (Joyful Rendezvous).

(From 16:16) 幾多愁 (ji duo chou) How Much Melancholy 詞牌: 虞美人 (Song lyrics: Papaver rhoea)
Poem: Yu Mei Ren, by Li Yu of Southern Tang Dynasty.

(From 19:48) 獨上西樓 (du shang xi lou) Alone Ascending The West Chamber. 詞牌: 哀思 (Grief / Ai si), segment of 相見歡 (Joyful Rendezvous), by Li Yu of Southern Tang Dynasty.

Thereafter, each song has a special verbal introduction by Teresa Teng:

(From 24:06) 但願人長久 (dan yuan ren chang jiu) Wish We Live Long Lives. 水調歌頭
Poem: Song By The River (shui diao ge tou) by Su Shi (蘇軾) from the Song Dynasty.

(From 29:49) 思君 (si jun) Thinking Of You. 作詞：[宋] (李之儀)卜算子.
Poem: Method To Divide Numbers, by Li Zhi-Yi from the Song Dynasty.

(From 35:03) 人約黃昏後 (ren yue huang hun hou) Dating By Twilight. 作詞：[宋](朱淑真) 生查子
Poem: Lantern Festival, by Zhu, ShuZhen from the Song Dynasty.

(From 39:17) 有誰知我此時情 (you shui zhi wo ci shi qing) Who Now Knows My Feeling. 作詞：[宋] (聶勝瓊) 鷓鴣天.
Poem: Partridge Day, by Nie Sheng-Qiong from the Song Dynasty.

(From 44:38) 萬葉千聲 (wan ye qian sheng) Echoes Of Countless Leaves. 作詞：[宋] (歐陽修) 木蘭花
Poem: Magnolia Flower, by Quyang, Xiu from the Song Dynasty.

(From 48:35) 清夜悠悠 (qing ye you you) Lingering Clear Night. 词牌: [宋](秦少游) 桃源憶故人
Poem: Remembering An Old Friend In The Peach Orchard, by Qin, Shao-You from the Song Dynasty.