| Ching Ming Festival Offerings - For The Live or For The Gone！? | |
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| Apr 8, 2006 10:03 | #21   |
 | No, Rita. It is part of a song The Living Years sung by Mike & The Mechanics. It is a very poignant song about respect for our parents (in this case, his father) and what we should do when they are living. It will be too late to say sorry when they have gone. |
| Apr 9, 2006 19:19 | #22 |
| Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling. From glen to glen and down the mountain side. The summer's gone, and all the flowers dying. 'Tis you, 'tis you must go, and I must bide. But come ye back when summer's in the meadow, or when the valley's hushed and white with snow. 'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow. Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so. But when ye come and all the roses falling, and I am dead, as dead I well may be, Go out and find the place where I am lying, And kneel and say an Ave there for me. And I will hear tho' soft your tread above me, and then my grave will warm and sweeter be. For you shall bend and tell me that you love me, And I will sleep in peace until you come to me. |
| Apr 9, 2006 19:59 | #23 |
| Like the Chinese poem goes: 树欲静而风不止，子欲养而亲不待. (Trees can't stop swaying since there are wind, kids can't treat their parents cos they've gone) Forgive my poor translation!! |
| Apr 9, 2006 22:05 | #24 |
| Yes Rita, I love that song so very much too !! Here is some information on its origin: Gather a group of Americans of Irish descent for a wake or a funeral and the odds are good you'll hear the haunting melody, and possibly the chilling verse of Danny Boy. Hard as it might be to believe, the notion that it's an old "Irish" song is pure fiction. In fact, the ENGLISH lyricist Frederick Weatherly published the words in 1913. He had started work on the verse several years earlier but it finally came together when in 1912, his sister-in-law sent him a tune called Londonderry Air - from her home in America, which he immediately matched to his verse of Danny Boy ! :) :) |
| Apr 9, 2006 22:11 | #25 |
| Oh,my god!May~~~~~~~~~Excellent! |
| Apr 9, 2006 22:20 | #26 |
| Hi Roger, Danny Boy is one of my favorite!!! On the weekends or whenever i am at home, I put the CD in and have it repeated once and once again. Now be infatuated with a version sung by a boy named Declan Galbraith, he is so professional!! Thank you for the imformation, I really like the feelings expressed in the song. It used to be a song of LOVE between father and son, and later the composer put another part which made it good for love of any kind. |
| Apr 9, 2006 22:23 | #27 |
| Sorry for the typo:( "Now be infatuated with a version sung by a boy named Declan Galbraith, he is so professional!!" Now I am infatuated with ... |
| Jun 23, 2009 14:24 | #28 |
| Here in France we have also Qingming offering every year at the biggest Chinese cemetery in Europe by Chinese community and officials including the ambassador of China in France http://membres.lycos.fr/ http://en.wikipedia.org/ http://french.peopledaily.com.cn/ http://www.google.com/ http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/ |
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