Vấn Dạ Vi Vũ Vẫn Hải Đường – Bilingual Lyrics Vietnamese/English

• By: 一害谷-

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

That year, the wind blew past the Chinese flowering crabapple, your gaze…

That year, the wind blew past the Chinese flowering crabapple, your gaze…

Eager to be worthy of the sunlight.

Just to bring me back to reality with a single glance.

Before me, a young man held the fleeting spring light.

Who would have thought how unpredictable life could be?

That year, frost filled the sky, your palm…

That year, frost filled the sky, your palm…

Gave me a warmth that lingered in my heart.

As the first ray of spring light descended.

How could I ever forget, in this life or the last?

Who knew this love would last so long?

Later, the stone orchids bloomed quietly.

From then on, we were worlds apart.

Gradually drifting further and further away, becoming strangers.

Secret thoughts fading into the past.

Lost in a long dream, I look up at the moonlight.

Lost in a long dream, I look up at the moonlight.

As memories resurface, it feels like a series of dreams.

Love diminishes as hatred grows, I pause and look back.

I’ll go with you.

My longing never fades.

Though our path is broken, we refuse to forget each other in this mortal world.

Soaring to the heavens, plummeting thousands of feet.

To wear the Tang Dynasty for you, just once.

If you remain alone in the distance,

Who will I look to, to meet my gaze?

Love diminishes as hatred grows, I pause and look back.

I’ll go with you.

My longing never fades.

Though our path is broken, we refuse to forget each other in this mortal world.

In the late night drizzle, I ask the Chinese flowering crabapple…

For eternity.

To stand beside you, together,

And appreciate this world’s beauty.

[Vietnamese]

那年风吹过海棠你的目光

那年风吹过海棠你的目光

热切能与天光相当

仅换我回神一望

眼前少年携短春光

未曾想人事变幻有多无常

那年有漫天飞霜你的手掌

那年有漫天飞霜你的手掌

赠我心头一片温烫

降临第一场春光

前世今生如何能忘

未曾想这情一次多长

后来石骨香 悄开放

从此天各一方

渐行渐远渐一般

心事隐秘成过往

一枕黄粱梦太长仰看此月光

一枕黄粱梦太长仰看此月光

当往事浮现 恍然如梦几场

爱恨此次消彼长 停步回望

我陪你同往

念想从未消亡

路断红尘不肯相忘

飞上九天 落千丈

为你穿一次唐

若你独留远方

谁来与我相望

爱恨此次消彼长 停步回望

我陪你同往

念想从未消亡

路断红尘不肯相忘

晚夜微雨 问海棠

用地久天长

与你并肩 共赏

这人间风光

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
海棠 /hǎi táng/ B1	noun - Chinese flowering crabapple
目光 /mù guāng/ B1	noun - eyesight, gaze
热切 /rè qiē/ B2	adjective - eager, ardent
少年 /shào nián/ A2	noun - young man, youth
无常 /wú cháng/ C1	adjective - impermanent, transient
霜 /shuāng/ A2	noun - frost
赠 /zèng/ B2	verb - to gift, to present
温烫 /wēn tàng/ B1	adjective - warm and scalding
过往 /guò wǎng/ B2	noun - past, bygone days
梦 /mèng/ A1	noun - dream
爱恨 /ài hèn/ B2	noun - love and hate
相望 /xiāng wàng/ B2	verb - to look at each other, to gaze at
消亡 /xiāo wáng/ C1	verb - to vanish, to disappear
红尘 /hóng chén/ C1	noun - the mortal world, human society
飞上 /fēi shàng/ A2	verb - to fly up
唐 /táng/ B2	noun - Tang Dynasty (618-907)
并肩 /bìng jiān/ B2	verb - to stand side by side
风光 /fēng guāng/ B1	noun - scenery, beautiful view

Key Grammar Structures

• 那年风吹过海棠你的目光

  ➔ Past tense + aspect particle 过 (guò)

  ➔ The sentence describes an action that happened in the past. '过' indicates a past experience or action.

• 未曾想人事变幻有多无常

  ➔ Adverbial Modifier 未曾 (wèi céng) + Verb Phrase

  ➔ '未曾' expresses 'never' or 'not yet', modifying the verb phrase '想人事变幻有多无常' (to not have thought about how unpredictable things are).

• 降临第一场春光

  ➔ Verb + Object structure with a specific measure word for the object

  ➔ The verb is '降临' (to descend, to arrive). '第一场春光' functions as the object. '场' is the measure word for events/instances.

• 后来石骨香 悄开放

  ➔ Adverbial Phrase + Verb

  ➔ '悄' (quietly, secretly) modifies '开放' (to bloom, to open), creating an adverbial phrase '悄开放' indicating how the action occurred.

• 心事隐秘成过往

  ➔ Verb + Complement of result

  ➔ '隐秘' (hidden) functions as the result of the verb '成' (become/turn into). The subject '心事' (heart's affairs, matters of the heart) becomes '过往' (the past).

• 一枕黄粱梦太长仰看此月光

  ➔ Adverb '太' (too) + Adjective or Adverbial phrase

  ➔ '太' (too) modifies the adjective '长' (long) to intensify it, and it modifies a verb. The sentence is used in the meaning of time of a dream is too long.

• 爱恨此次消彼长 停步回望

  ➔ Parallel Structure (A消B长)

  ➔ The sentence uses a parallel structure, with opposing elements. '爱' (love) and '恨' (hate) are contrasted, with one diminishing ('消' - disappear/decrease) while the other grows ('长' - grow/increase).

• 路断红尘不肯相忘

  ➔ Subordinate clause + Verb phrase (不肯相忘)

  ➔ '路断红尘' describes the situation (the road is cut off from the mundane world), and '不肯相忘' expresses an attitude or intention (unwilling to forget each other). '不肯' is a modal verb here, meaning unwilling to do something.

• 晚夜微雨 问海棠

  ➔ Elliptical Sentence (省略句)

  ➔ The sentence is elliptical, with the subject and verb omitted. It implies 'In the late night with light rain, I ask the begonia'. The omitted information is understood from the context.