The version of the song as performed in this 1962 special opera cinema with leading actress Xu Yulan: Zhang, not a native speaker of Wu dialect, memorized the standard Yue opera pronunciations of lyrics with both alphabet combinations and Mandarin word substitutes. The Wu dialect’s vowels and consonants are quite different from standard Mandarin.
Yue opera mostly uses Wu dialect in singing and speech. Using an emotional melody, the duet shows the affection Baoyu and Lin Daiyu feel in such a lyrical way that it has become the most well-known song representing Yue opera. They both have the same strange feeling that they have been close friends for a long time and have met again after a long separation. The song is sung at the beginning of the story, when protagonists Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu first meet. ‘Dream of Red Mansion’ special opera cinema, 1962. “Sister Lin Fallen From Heaven” originally is a duet song from Yue opera’s adaptation of thee Dream of the Red Mansion, one of China’s Four Great Classical Novels. Yue opera (越剧), one of the five main types of traditional folk opera in China, is characterized by its lyricism and prized particularly for its intimate portrayal of emotion. The hashtag page’s introduces the song as “a blend of traditional Chinese opera, rock, and R&B music, full of originality and freshness, showing the young singer’s willingness to preserve our traditional culture as a responsibility.” The hashtag ‘Zhang Jie Sister Lin Fallen From Heaven” (# 张杰天上掉下个林妹妹#) has thus far received more than 170 million views on Weibo. His popularity has increased over the past two years: having made it into the final round of I Am a Singer, Zhang is widely recognized in China as a talented singer with a hard-working, down-to-earth attitude.Įarlier this week, Jason’s pop music rendition of the famous opera song debuted on the new music show and went viral almost immediately. In 2007, Zhang rose to fame after taking fourth place on Hunan Channel’s singing competition show Super Boy.
Jason Zhang, also known as Zhang Jie (张杰), is a Chinese mainland pop singer. Zhang performed a rearranged Chinese Yue opera piece titled “Sister Lin Fallen From Heaven” (天上掉下林妹妹), mixing elements of pop, rock, and rap music with traditional Chinese opera. In the second episode of Battle For the Heavenly Voice, Dragon TV’s new music contest show featuring celebrity singers, pop singer Jason Zhang (张杰) recently took the Internet by storm. Despite the praise for the song, some people say pop and opera should not be mixed. A song that mixes pop and rap with traditional Yue opera has become a viral hit on Chinese social media.
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