Saturday, 26 May 2012

Ancient version VS Chinese version


 I was a person who likes music. I like Chinese ancient version songs very much, but most Chinese cannot clarify the difference between Chinese ancient version and Chinese version, so this time, I want to talk about their difference.
 First of all, we need to clarify their names. Actually, we usually call Chinese ancient version as ancient version. In order to make sure foreigners know that this “ancient” is “Chinese ancient”, so I add that “Chinese” in front of “ancient”. From the name, you can see that ancient version faces to China, Chinese version faces to the whole world.
Secondly, the melody between ancient version and Chinese version has a little difference. They all would use Chinese ancient instrument, but ancient version would use more and Chinese version would use less. Chinese version would add more piano and guitar
Thirdly, the biggest difference between ancient version and Chinese version is their lyrics. Chinese version’s lyrics would use words like poetry and add some Chinese elements, but ancient version would use ancient Chinese to write its lyrics, so ancient version’s lyrics would be much harder to understand.
Lastly, the difference between ancient version and Chinese version is their commercial purposes. Chinese version is much popular in the society, for instance, Jay Chou is famous as Chinese version’ singer. Therefore, there are a lot of Chinese version singers and albums. However, it is very hard to find ancient version albums. Usually, ancient version singers just active on the Internet, and they sing those ancient version songs just for fun, not for money. If ancient version singers want to make money, they can sing songs for those games.
At last, I recommend two songs to you to clear the difference between these two. One is an ancient version song, called <琴师>, the other is Chinese version’s song <若相惜>. 

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