Grade 8 Music - Second Quarter
East Asian Music
Music of China
Vocal Music of China
Mo Li Hua, Jasmine Flower
A traditional Chinese song with a beautifully gentle and lyrical melody . The lyrics is about the Jasmine flower also turn it into a love song . The song describes a custom of giving Jasmine Flowers, popular in the southern Yangtze Delta Region of China.
Translation:
What a beautiful Jasmine flower
What a beautiful Jasmine flower
Sweet-smelling, beautiful, stems full of buds
Fragrant and white, everyone praises
Let me pluck you down
Give to someone's family
Jasmine flower, oh Jasmine flower
(reference: Grade 8 Learner's Module)
