{"id":237,"date":"2019-02-15T04:49:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T04:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/?p=237"},"modified":"2019-05-03T04:18:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T04:18:29","slug":"gung-hey-fat-choy-happy-lunar-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/2019\/02\/15\/gung-hey-fat-choy-happy-lunar-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Gung Hey Fat Choy, Happy Lunar New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;color: #ff0000\">COMMUNITY EVENT<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ms. Housego, Begbie&#8217;s Music teacher, taught <em>every<\/em> student a popular Chinese folk song called, &#8220;Jasmine Flower.&#8221; \u00a0All of the children learned to sing the Mandarin lyrics in honour of Lunar New Year!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-304\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/rpbNk_2019-02-04-04-13-44.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/rpbNk_2019-02-04-04-13-44.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/rpbNk_2019-02-04-04-13-44-300x155.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/rpbNk_2019-02-04-04-13-44-768x396.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/rpbNk_2019-02-04-04-13-44-1024x527.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This song dates back to the 18th century, and is one of the most well known Chinese melodies in China and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, February 14th, Begbie students performed this song at our Lunar New Year assembly. \u00a0Many children took such pride in singing a song that was familiar and culturally significant to them.<\/p>\n<p>The English translation of &#8220;Jasmine Flower&#8221; is:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>What a beautiful jasmine flower. \u00a0What a beautiful jasmine flower.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>Sweet-smelling, beautiful stems, full of buds.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>Fragrant and white, everyone praises it.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>Let me pluck you and give you to others.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>Jasmine flower, oh, jasmine flower.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Have a listen!<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-237-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/Jasmine-Flower.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/Jasmine-Flower.mp3\">http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/Jasmine-Flower.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Happy Year of the Pig to everyone!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-306\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/IMG_7896.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2701\" height=\"3211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/IMG_7896.jpg 2701w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/IMG_7896-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/IMG_7896-768x913.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/IMG_7896-861x1024.jpg 861w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2019\/02\/IMG_7896-1200x1427.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMMUNITY EVENT Ms. Housego, Begbie&#8217;s Music teacher, taught every student a popular Chinese folk song called, &#8220;Jasmine Flower.&#8221; \u00a0All of the children learned to sing the Mandarin lyrics in honour of Lunar New Year! This song dates back to the 18th century, and is one of the most well known Chinese melodies in China and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/2019\/02\/15\/gung-hey-fat-choy-happy-lunar-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gung Hey Fat Choy, Happy Lunar New Year!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}