The Translation and Interpretation of Tujia Love Songs “Six Sips of Tea” and “Tangerine Tree”

Lyu Jie; Xu Zhanghong

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The Translation and Interpretation of Tujia Love Songs “Six Sips of Tea” and “Tangerine Tree”

Lyu Jie, Xu Zhanghong

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 9, Issue 6)

Received: 4 October 2021 Accepted: 11 November 2021 Published: 23 November 2021

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Abstract

Tujia love songs is one of the important types of Tujia folk songs. The paper analyzes the typical features of folk songs, regards song translation as a constrained translation and mainly introduced Peter Low’s Pentathlon Principle in the west and Jun QIN’s five rules on Chinese song translation. The principle and rules have been considered and applied in the paper, which then focuses on case analysis of two Tujia love songs “Six Sips of Tea” and “Tangerine Tree”. For the first song “Six Sips of Tea”, the authors translate and interpret it by involving tea culture and view of marriage. They also make a comparative study between their translated version and singable version online rendered by Jun QIN. For the second song “Tangerine Tree”, after translating it, the authors interpret it from different aspects. In the process of translating and interpreting two songs, unique Tujia culture and dialect have been displayed. The paper concludes that whether folk songs are to be translated for singing or for comprehension, the constraints such as rhymes or melodies shall be taken into consideration. Generally speaking, translating Tujia folk songs is of complexity and the interpretation of these songs need comprehensive knowledge of Tujia Culure.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 9, Issue 6) This article belongs to the Special Issue Translation and Interpretation of 28 Chinese Tujia Minority Ballads
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20210906.21
Page(s)	329-335
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Tujia Love Songs, Translation Criteria and Strategies, Tea Culture, View of Marriage

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Lyu Jie

The School of English for International Business, Institute of Hermeneutics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
Xu Zhanghong

The School of English for International Business, Institute of Hermeneutics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

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