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A Chinese New Year Song

on January 21, 2008

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A Chinese Song: The Shepherds Of Ke Ke Tuo Hai 可可托海的牧羊人

So, Ke Ke Tuo Hai 可可托海 or Koktokay is the name of a place in Xinjiang, China. Wang Qi's song 可可托海的牧羊人 The Shepherds Of Ke Ke Tuo Hai about a man pining for a woman is set in such a vast and beautiful backdrop . As the title of the song indicates, the man is a shepherd. The vocation of the woman however isn't really clearly stated but a source claims she is a beekeeper. The shepherd would move with his flocks to where the grasses are and the beekeeper would move with her bees to where the flowers are. In this way, they meet and separate at certain seasons of the year; and during the separation, the man yearns for the woman but is informed that she has married another man. The song is rather melancholy and would sometimes make the soft hearted and romantic cry . It is also immensely popular and has been sung in the streets and covered by many singers including Andy Lau, Fei Yee Ching and many others. More Chinese songs... Here are some other versions of the hit so...

Power Generation Glass

There wasn't a glass that could produce eletricity but there is now, thanks to Pan Jingong. Pan Jingong reportedly was a bright child and harboured dreams of becoming a scientist. He furthered his studies in America, specializing in high-efficiency and low-energy power generation technology. Later, despite being offered a million-dollar annual salary, he returned to China. He discovered a material with strong light energy absorption capabilities and minimal environmental impact, cadmium telluride which industry thought had no future. It took six years of hard work before he made power generation glass became a reality. Watch this!

Mandolin Man

Many people especially the younger generation would not know the late Tan Tong Tong 陳同同. Tan Tong Tong played a traditional Chinese stringed instrument, the Yueqin 月琴, otherwise known as the Chinese mandolin. Probably, at one time, he must be a familiar figure in the streets of Penang. He used to ply the streets there, strumming his Yueqin, singing songs and rhymes in Hokkien and telling fortunes, then the trade of the day. Tan Tong Tong later appeared in radio, singing old Hokkien songs in a one-hour program on Redifusion Malaysia and a half-hour programme on Radio Malaya. There is a mural of the mandolin man at the backlane of Delta Office near Pitt Street in Penang; in honour of him, I suppose. Here's another mandolin man! and a Mandolin woman wishing you a happy Chinese New Year!

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