Deng Yuxian

Deng Yuxian

Deng Yuxian (July 21, 1906 - June 11, 1944) is a Hakka from Longtan, Taoyuan County, Taiwan Province. His ancestral home is dengwu, Xiajiao village, AIChE village, Tongfu Township, Jiaoling County, Guangdong Province. He wrote "flowers on a rainy night" and "watching the spring breeze" and other famous songs. In 1942, he took Tangqi Yeyu as his pseudonym and changed his Japanese surname to Toyoda Xiaoyu in the same year.

Personal experience

Deng Yuxian was born in Longtan Township, Taoyuan County, Taiwan Province on July 21, 1906. At the age of 15, he entered Taipei Normal School (now "national" Taipei University of Education) of Taiwan Governor's office and graduated in 1925. At the age of 24, he traveled to Japan to study composition. In 1932, when Deng Yuxian was 27 years old, Jiang Tianshou set up Wensheng qupan company in Yongle Town, Dadaocheng, Taipei City, and invited Deng Yuxian to join the company. Deng Yuxian agreed to create Dadaocheng March. In 1933, when Deng Yuxian was 28 years old, Chen Junyu, the second minister of literature and art of GuLun Meiya records, strongly invited Deng Yuxian to join the company, and Deng Yuxian agreed. In the same year, Deng Yuxian wrote songs such as "looking at the spring breeze" and "worrying about the moon night". At the end of the Japanese occupation period, all Chinese songs were banned because of the imperial movement. When Deng Yuxian was 35 years old, he quit his job and went back to his hometown xionglin to teach in xionglin primary school. Deng Yuxian died of illness at the age of 39.

personal works

1932

Dadaocheng March

Chen Junyu, the second minister of literature and art of GuLun Meiya records, first mentioned Deng Yuxian's song "the march of Dadaocheng" in 1955's Taipei cultural relics. However, his recording data has not existed for many years, which has aroused many scholars' doubts. In June 2007, "Dadaocheng March" vinyl record was discovered by Taiwan art designer Lin Taiwei at the flea market in Sanchong City, Taipei County. The record was recorded in 1932 by the Wensheng music disc company of Yongle Town, Tadao city. The lyrics were written in Japanese by the literature and Art Department of Wensheng music disc company, and the singer was Jiang Heling (Lin Taiwei suspected that he was the boss of Wensheng music disc company, Jiang Tianshou). The music style of Dadaocheng March is youthful and lively. The lyrics describe the changes of scenery in four seasons in Dadaocheng, and also mention the famous restaurant jiangshanlou and the popular jazz music at that time.

Love at night

Twelve steps of Pearl tears

Elegy of tea

You don't know me, I don't know you

1933

Flowers on a rainy night

Japanese version: Honorary Junfu

Rain and night flowers

Cantonese version: Four Seasons Song

Sorrow on a moonlit night

Japanese version: military husband's wife

Looking at the spring breeze

Japanese version: the earth is calling

Old youth

The age of dancing

Beauty on the bridge

1934

Praise of youth

Spring night chant

Shan Si Diao

Then Zhou Tianwang filled in the lyrics again and changed it to "want to play the same tune".

Idle flowers sigh

Civilized woman

The love of love

Xiaoqu before plum blossom

Heartbreak

1935

Smoke in the wind

Spring night chant

Heartbreak

Eternal love

Shan Si Diao

A red egg

Xiaoqu before plum blossom

On flowers

Japanese version: true day hill

"Where's the press"

Monk March

Love under the moon

You hurt me

I love you

Thinking of you under the moon

Spring river song

Three sisters

Love in spring

Rice river Nocturne

A dream of flowers

Youth flower drum

Linhaiqu

1936

Moon in a foreign land

Rain in front of eaves

My daughter sighs

Sorrow at night

Sisterhood

Lonely bird sighs

Female mourning song

Watching the moon on a white night

Sigh for the environment

Lonely sorrow on a rainy night

1937

South wind ballad

Feelings of the bride

Worry about people

1938

Guangdong Nocturne

Four seasons red

During the period of martial law, it was renamed "four seasons ballad" until the lifting of martial law.

Puppet show version: big head monk (Biography of Liuhe Sanxia)

A letter to a brother

1939

Sorrow at dusk

Japanese version: fanshe girl

Mandarin Version: 18 girls a flower

Pure love Nocturne

Spring breeze

Japanese version: South China Sea Nocturne

Love on a rainy night

Dusk in the woods

Kan mang Hua

Pure love Nocturne

The fine sky and the wild vulture

Letter from the local army

Taiwan version: Mom, I'm really brave and healthy (changed from Zhuang Qisheng after World War II)

1940

Flowers of the South

Song for you in bold style

From the island of the South

Song of looking at hometown

1941

Not willing to kill

Farewell home

Year unknown

Flowers in the bottle

Beauty on the bridge

Lonely wild goose sad moon

Please want to see it

Rebirth fate

Since you left

Empty embrace pipa

Qin Yun

Dui Du Zhen

Wugengpu

Anping minor

Deeper

The shadow of the river

Comfort bag

Virgin flower

Heartbroken night

Lonely dove in sunset

Love for spring

Autumn Moon chant

Thinking of you in an empty room

The book of lamenting the world

Folk song minor

"The faint hearted bird"

Heartbreak

Qin Yun

Wen Hua Tan

Yuesheng Gulangyu

Taiwanese version: Moonlight Beach

The marriage of flowers in the South China Sea

Singing in autumn night

Japanese version: Factory March

Love at dusk

Shanxie minor

Xionglin Xiaobei (tune)

Family background

Gao Zu: Deng Jinguang

Great grandfather: Deng Guanqi

Grandfather: Deng qiongfeng

Father: Deng Shengyou

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These melodies, which are full of Taiwan's unique sentiment and unforgettable, are all created by one person, the Hakka composer Deng Yuxian. Deng Yuxian, born on July 21, 1906 (the 39th year of Meiji), was a Hakka son of Longtan Village in Daxi County, which is now Longtan Township in Taoyuan County. Longtan Township in Taoyuan originally got its name because of the so-called "lingtanyu" in the area. In the early days, it was widely spread among the people that there was a yellow dragon hidden in the lake, which was about 18 carats in size. In response to the public opinion, it rained in time to relieve the drought. The villagers called it "longtanyu" to record the event. Therefore, folklore went deep into the hearts of the local people. Therefore, the place name of this place was convenient for the Japanese rule, and gradually changed from "lingtanyu" to "lingtanyu" It is called "Longtan".

Born in a famous family

The majority of Taiwan's Taoyuan platform residents are Hakkas, while the families of Zhong in the "jiuzuoliao" area of Longtan and Deng in the "bazhangli" area are even more famous families. It is said that the Deng family started in Guangdong Province as early as the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty

Meixian District, Meizhou City

He crossed the sea to Taiwan and took root in Longtan. The Deng family came to Taiwan to express their memory of their ancestors and hope that the family will continue to be prosperous and prosperous in the future. It is stipulated that all the descendants of the Deng family will still be named according to their generations, and Deng Yuxian is a descendant of "Xian".

Deng Yuxian not only came from a famous family, but also inherited his family through generations. His great grandfather, grandfather and uncle all passed the examination of scholar, and had a proud record of "three scholar in one school". However, because the Deng family has a long history of "no medicine, no official", most of the elders of the Deng family take "education" as their career goal and actively contribute to the local people. For example, Deng Yuxian's father, Deng shengrou (named Xudong), joined his hometown Longyuan palace school as a teacher. Later, he was employed as a Chinese teacher in Taiwan Governor's Mandarin School (divided into normal school and Mandarin Department II) To teach Chinese in Hakka, Deng decided to move to Taipei with her family. Deng Yuxian began to contact and learn Minnan language because he moved to Taipei. Deng Yuxian's primary education was completed in Wanhua "mangong school" (today's Laosong National School) in Taipei. At this time, because he studied with many students whose mother tongue is Minnan language every day, he got along with them for a long time, and the use of Minnan language has been very fluent.

In 1919, the Governor General's office of Taiwan issued the so-called "Taiwan education order" to actively carry out the reform of education, and decided to close the "Mandarin School" and set up Taipei and Tainan normal schools at the same time. At that time, Deng Yuxian, following his father's wishes, successfully entered the Taipei Normal School at the age of only 15, and the then Taipei Normal School was established