Video: Zhong Guo Hua

Jocelyn Writes:

Dear All-

And now for a cultural moment....

I am attempting to post a video of our group (adults included) performing a dance to the song Zhong Guo Hua for the "Welcoming Assembly" organized by the Gaoxin School (see Gavi and Ayden's post entitled The Gaoxin Welcoming Ceremony). The name Zhong Guo Hua literally means "The Chinese Language." The song is written and sung by the Chinese Rap band S.H.E. (the singers are all women!) and tells the story of how after many years of having to "twist their brains" around English, Chinese people can take pride in the the fact that "the whole world is finally learning Chinese..."

Our performance opens with Ayden doing cartwheels... , Ben does some break dancing (but doesn't break!!) and Gavi, Bruce and I are background dancers. Our buddy Jonathan Flash-Inbar created and adapted the choreography loosely based on a music video by S.H.E.

Access to our video is below on this blog entry, I think that after you click on the ">" below, the video may take a few minutes to load. Let us know if this works!!!

In addition to our "home grown version of Zhong Guo Hua, check out S.H.E.'s music video version of Zhong Guo Hua on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEZKP5RNdCI . For anyone interested in the lyrics, you can find a translation and pinion version at http://www.chinesemusicblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=33679
The song is cute and starts with a Chinese tongue twister (that makes little sense in translation)....

And stay tuned...I will be trying to post Ayden and Ben at Morning Exercises later today...
Much Love, Joc