Flowing Stream (​小​河​淌​水​) Chinese Folk Song

by Liz Kretschmer

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My personal Rendition of The Flowing Stream ❤

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Description taken from mookiehyun.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/m…tiful-today/ ::

Flowing Stream is a YunNan folksong, legend has it there was a beautiful girl from a little village along the legendary Tea Horse Road falling in love with a young traveling horseman, the night before his leave, traveling through the mountains, they betrothed by the river. Night after night, she would sing by the river, under the bright moon, this song, hopefully the rippling water, the billowing breeze can carry her words of love to the mountains and he could hear her under the same bright moon . Next year, when the companions of the young horseman come to town, she can not find him. The head horseman of the troop gives her a jade bracelet, telling her young horseman has a change of heart and this is his token of guilt. 10 years passed by, and she still remains single, refusing to marry her hordes of suiters, singing by the river, the song she hopes he could hear her echoing through the mountains, the head horseman can’t bear it but tell her the truth the young horseman had died in the mountains soon after they left her village and the jade bracelet was what he meant to gift her asking for her hand.

English Translation:
"the moon rises bright an clear
i yearn for my love in the mountain
my love is like the moon in heaven
alas, my love
the stream runs at mountain's foot

the moon shines on the slope
it reminds me of my love
the breeze reaches the slope
alas, my love
may the breeze carry my words to my love

the moon rises bright
the stream runs clear
my love is like the moon in heaven"

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released February 19, 2014

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