{"id":19061,"date":"2020-02-18T09:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T09:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/rule-breaking-animals-wei-zhang-dong-wu-2\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T09:42:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T09:42:49","slug":"rule-breaking-animals-wei-zhang-dong-wu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/rule-breaking-animals-wei-zhang-dong-wu-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule-Breaking Animals\u8fdd\u7ae0\u52a8\u7269"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

\tXu Song(\u8bb8\u5d69), English name "Vae", is an independent musician in pop music in China.\u300a\u8fdd\u7ae0\u52a8\u7269\u300b ‘Rule-Breaking Animals’ is 27-year-old mainland singer-songwriter <\/span>\u8bb8\u5d69 Xu Song aka Vae Xu'<\/span><\/font>s latest work, recently released on August 21st.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\tThe music video presents a non-linear narrative of a little boy and his father, a street vendor who sells watermelons off the back of his three-wheeled bicycle. Much of the first half of the video shows the boy preparing to write an essay for school and imagining of what he would be like as a chengguan, municipal employees tasked with supervising and enforcing local ordinances usually involving use of public spaces and whom have a notorious reputation for clashing with street vendors and peddlers. In his imagination, chengguan would be kind-hearted like his own father. Upon meeting an old man selling apples on the street, he gathers up the apples but instead of confiscating them, he merely moves them across the street and invites the old man to continue there. The boy laughs as he finishes imagining this.<\/p>\n

\tHalfway through the music video, the father has come home after a day’s work and the boy notices pieces of shattered watermelon on the back of the father’s cart. The father quickly comes up with a story to explain what had happened, that a zebra had escaped a zoo and crossed a zebra crossing on a red light in front of him, causing him to crash and break the watermelon. The boy laughs but is later seen taping together his father’s hand scale (to weigh and price the watermelons). While the father is in the bathroom washing clothes and then appears to touch a still tender wound on his face, the song attempts to fix the scale, secretly in tears.<\/p>\n

\tIt is then suggested that the boy may have seen what really happened that day. While on his way to bring his father a meal, the son notices something wrong and hides around a corner where he watches his father apparently trying to protect his stock of watermelons during a struggle. Who the father is struggling with is not explicitly shown, but what follows is a scene of the hand scale thrown on the ground and snapped, while a broken piece of watermelon lies beside it. Huddling on the ground clutching the lunch tin and bottle of water, the son cries for his father.<\/p>\n

\tThe music video ends with a voiceover of the boy reading from his essay, describing his wish that people “protect hardworking people, treasure fruits and vegetables, be more patient, and guide zebras when crossing the street.”<\/p>\n

\tLyrics (Original Chinese, Pinyin Romanization, and English Translation):<\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\u6211\u76ee\u7779\u8857\u89d2\u7684\u8774\u8776\u98de\u4e0a\u4e86\u9752\u5929
\tw\u01d2 mù d\u01d4 ji\u0113 ji\u01ceo de hú dié f\u0113i shàng le q\u012bng ti\u0101n
\tI witness the butterflies of the street corner flying into the clear sky<\/p>\n

\t\u8981\u4e0a\u8bbf\u9752\u5929\u5927\u8001\u7237
\tyào shàng f\u01ceng q\u012bng ti\u0101n dà l\u01ceo yé
\tto appeal to “Grandpa of the Clear Sky”.<\/p>\n

\t[Note: "The clear sky" is symbolic of Bao Zheng, a historical government official respected as the cultural symbol of justice in Greater China who was also known as "Clear Sky Bao", as well as referring to honest, upright officials in general.]<\/p>\n

\t\u76f8\u5173\u8859\u95e8\u63d0\u51fa\u4e86\u4e00\u4e9b\u6307\u5bfc\u6027\u610f\u89c1
\txi\u0101ng gu\u0101n yá mén tí ch\u016b le yì xi\u0113 zh\u01d0 d\u01ceo xìng yì jiàn
\tThe relevant government offices gave some guidance<\/p>\n

\t\u8857\u574a\u73a9\u547d\u8f6c\u64ad\u771f\u76f8\u4e0e\u6d41\u8a00
\tji\u0113 f\u01ceng wán mìng zhu\u01cen b\u014d zh\u0113n xiàng y\u01d4 liú yán
\tand the neighborhood eagerly relayed the truth and the rumors.<\/p>\n

\t\u5356\u7ea2\u85af\u7684\u59d1\u5a18\u60f3\u5728\u5b66\u5802\u95e8\u524d\u6446\u644a
\tmài hóng sh\u01d4 de g\u016b niang xi\u01ceng zài xué táng mén qián b\u01cei t\u0101n
\tThe girl who sells sweet potatoes wants to sell in front of the school.<\/p>\n

\t\u90a3\u4e0d\u53ef\u4ee5\u6ca1\u94b1 \u4e5f\u4e0d\u53ef\u4ee5\u4e0d\u966a\u7b11\u8138
\tnà bù k\u011b y\u01d0 méi qián y\u011b bù k\u011b y\u01d0 bù péi xiào li\u01cen
\tIf so, she can’t not have money, nor can she not put on a smiling face [to butter up government officers].<\/p>\n

\t\u6709\u70b9\u5c0f\u6743\u7684 \u65f6\u65f6\u523b\u523b\u90fd\u60f3\u8981\u7528\u4e0a\u5c0f\u6743
\ty\u01d2u di\u01cen xi\u01ceo quán de shí shí kè kè d\u014du xi\u01ceng yào yòng shàng xi\u01ceo quán
\tThose with a little power, they want to take advantage of that little power at all times,<\/p>\n

\t\u800c\u6709\u5927\u6743\u7684 \u8111\u5b50\u574f\u4e86\u624d\u548c\u4f60\u7ad9\u4e00\u8fb9
\tér y\u01d2u dà quán de n\u01ceo zi huài le cái hé n\u01d0 zhàn yì bi\u0101n
\twhile those with a lot of power, they will only stand with you when they’ve lost their minds.<\/p>\n

\tCHORUS:<\/p>\n

\t\u4e00\u7fa4\u9ad8\u8d35\u6c14\u8d28\u7684\u5dee\u4eba\u5728\u5904\u7f5a\u8fdd\u7ae0\u52a8\u7269
\tyì qún g\u0101o guì qì zhì de ch\u0101i rén zài ch\u01d4 fà wéi zh\u0101ng dòng wù
\tA bunch of noble government officers punishing rule-breaking animals.<\/p>\n

\t\u5979\u4e00\u8eab\u5c18\u571f \u5728\u8857\u89d2\u8ff7\u4e86\u8def
\tt\u0101 yì sh\u0113n chén t\u01d4 zài ji\u0113 ji\u01ceo mí le lù
\tShe was covered in dust, lost on the street corner.<\/p>\n

\t\u4e00\u7fa4\u9ad8\u8d35\u6c14\u8d28\u7684\u5dee\u4eba\u5728\u5904\u7f5a\u8fdd\u7ae0\u52a8\u7269
\tyì qún g\u0101o guì qì zhì de ch\u0101i rén zài ch\u01d4 fà wéi zh\u0101ng dòng wù
\tA bunch of noble government officers punishing rule-breaking animals.<\/p>\n

\t\u7f04\u9ed8\u7684\u6cea \u6ca1\u6709\u4eba\u5728\u4e4e
\tji\u0101n mò de lèi méi y\u01d2u rén zài h\u016b
\tSilent tears, with no one caring.<\/p>\n

\t\u8fd9\u7e41\u534e\u7684\u57ce\u6c60\u6709\u65f6\u8ba9\u4eba\u611f\u5230\u964c\u751f
\tzhè fán huá de chéng chí y\u01d2u shí ràng rén g\u01cen dào mò sh\u0113ng
\tThis bustling city sometimes feels strange.<\/p>\n

\t\u5f53\u4e4c\u4e91\u4e0d\u65ad\u5806\u53e0 \u66b4\u96e8\u4e5f\u5c31\u5982\u671f\u800c\u81f3
\td\u0101ng w\u016b yún bú duàn du\u012b dié bào y\u01d4 y\u011b jiù rú q\u012b ér zhì
\tWhen dark clouds keep piling up, the rainstorm will come as expected.<\/p>\n

\t“\u5e78\u798f”\u7684\u5b9a\u4e49\u8fde\u756a\u5347\u7ea7 \u62d2\u7edd\u56de\u5230\u521d\u59cb\u7248\u672c
\txìng fú de dìng yì lián f\u0101n sh\u0113ng jí jù jué huí dào ch\u016b sh\u01d0 b\u01cen b\u011bn
\tThe definition of “happiness” keeps upgrading, refusing to return to the original version.<\/p>\n

\t\u5c31\u4e70\u4e2a\u7ea2\u85af\u5427 \u5426\u5219\u591c\u592a\u5bd2\u51b7
\tjiù m\u01cei gè hóng sh\u01d4 ba f\u01d2u zè yè tài hán l\u011bng
\tSo just buy a sweet potato, lest the night will be too cold.<\/p>\n

\tCHORUS<\/p>\n

\t\u4e00\u7fa4\u9ad8\u8d35\u6c14\u8d28\u7684\u5dee\u4eba\u5728\u5904\u7f5a\u8fdd\u7ae0\u52a8\u7269
\tyì qún g\u0101o guì qì zhì de ch\u0101i rén zài ch\u01d4 fà wéi zh\u0101ng dòng wù
\tA bunch of noble government officers punishing rule-breaking animals.<\/p>\n

\t\u5979\u4e00\u8eab\u5c18\u571f \u5728\u8857\u89d2\u8ff7\u4e86\u8def
\tt\u0101 yì sh\u0113n chén t\u01d4 zài ji\u0113 ji\u01ceo mí le lù
\tShe was covered in dust, lost on the street corner.<\/p>\n

\t\u4e00\u7fa4\u9ad8\u8d35\u6c14\u8d28\u7684\u5dee\u4eba\u5728\u5904\u7f5a\u8fdd\u7ae0\u52a8\u7269
\tyì qún g\u0101o guì qì zhì de ch\u0101i rén zài ch\u01d4 fà wéi zh\u0101ng dòng wù
\tA bunch of noble government officers punishing rule-breaking animals.<\/p>\n

\t\u7f04\u9ed8\u7684\u6cea \u6c47\u6210\u8fd9\u65b9\u571f\u5730\u7684\u6e56
\tji\u0101n mò de lèi huì chéng zhè f\u0101ng t\u01d4 dì de hú
\tSilent tears, pooling to become the lake of this land.<\/p>\n