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Lyrics as a questions warehouse, Vincent Fang produces 100 questions
by kelvin@multistars - 9th February 2007It's already not fresh news that the lyrics Vincent Fang writes for Jay Chou became Chinese exam questions, he is also deeply interested in how Chinese teachers are using the lyrics in the exams, therefore after thinking about it thoroughly for a month, in nearly 40 songs Vincent Fang wrote for Jay Chou, he planned out 100 questions, on the 13th of February he will put it online for fans to answer (the address is http://www.ch5.tv/fws100/). Not only have the Chinese style lyrics that Vincent Fang wrote and Jay Chou performed led to a trend in the music industry, they have also stirred an upsurge of discussion in Chinese lessons in high and middle schools. They even once became exam questions for high and middle schools, even in the history textbooks in Taiwan for high and middle schools, questions related to Jay Chou have appeared.
Seeing so many teachers using his lyrics as questions, Vincent Fang also longed to try it, he expressed that pop music represents what's popular in the current era, it can revert to the culture of the youth, watching teachers enlighten the student's curiosity by means of pop music from life, he hopes through the shallow and evidently easy to understand way, he can generate a good interaction with fans.
These 100 questions are all taken from the 7 albums Jay Chou has released, from the songs he wrote, Vincent Fang firstly releases 4 questions, they are from "Hair Like Snow", "Where Is The Train Going?", "Blue Storm" and "Beyond A Thousand Miles", taking parts of the lyrics and combining them with Chinese history and our own to form a question, ancient and modern literature become one, forming an even bigger Chinese knowledge network. Vincent Fang expressed, if his answers have space for discussion, he welcomes everyone to point out corrections.
How hard are the questions? Vincent Fang expressed that there are hard and easy ones, but it must be set by each person's level of understanding of lyrics, and the time limit for answering the questions is according to school examinations, participants must complete 100 questions within 50 minutes. About the first feelings of putting out questions, Vincent Fang explained: "The difficulty of the questions will cause curiosity, if the lyrics can make everyone derive the curiosity for knowledge, then both sides can obtain new knowledge, it can be considered as a good thing."
Vincent Fang was not willing to publish the answers to the 100 questions, he stressed it was "extremely classified data", in order to protect the fairness of the exam, he won't leak the answers easily, at the moment only he and the web designer knows, he welcomes everyone to come and have a go. Has partner Jay Chou done the 100 questions? Vincent Fang said: "This is only an event I'm doing myself, anyway he's been busy filming his movie recently, so don't disturb him, don't ask him!"
1. In the lyrics to "Hair Like Snow", "The word formula of fate, reincarnating a few times, you frown, crying that your young beauty cannot be called back", "young beauty" is a kind of metonymy phrase, it mainly has two borrowed meanings, one is youth, young; the other is female, beautiful girl. Then which ancient book and records does the phrase "A beautiful girl has an unfortunate life" appear in first?
A) Anonymous "Quilt Decorated with Mandarin Duck"
B) Cao Xue Qin's "Dream of the Red Chamber" from the Qing Dynasty
C) West Jin Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms"
D) Ming Dynasty's Lan Ling Xiao Xiao Sheng's "Plum Blossom in a Golden Vase"
2. The lyrics in Taiwanese song "Where Is The Train Going?", "The past is like the dragonfly at the side of the stream, is also the days of flying together", what insect does the "dragonfly" indicate?
A) Cicada
B) Dragonfly
C) Butterfly
D) Grasshopper
3. In the lyrics for "Blue Storm", "Life is precious, I use that sonnet to praise, everything that is young", the "sonnet" that it mentions, which one from below describes it wrongly?
A) Shakespeare's sonnet, is also called Elizabeth
B) The poem emphasises the rhyme base and syllable usage
C) The sonnet is a kind of fixed formed of writing
D) The first sonnet was published in English
4. In the lyrics to "Beyond A Thousand Miles", "I hear sounds of tears so I enter the woods, searching for the white pear flower, I only get a row of moss" and Wang Wei's poem "Deer Park Hermitage", "There seems to be no one on the empty mountain, and yet I think I hear a voice, where sunlight, entering a grove, shines back to me from the green moss", the artistic conception is similar, what are the meanings they both have in common?
A) A kind of low moan, sad melancholy
B) The pitiless sighing of the years flowing by
C) The unknown empty lonely feeling after visiting a spot
D) Homesickness caused by the objects in the scenery
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