Eternal love songs of the late musician Trinh Cong Son

Among the talented musician's hundreds of songs, 'Cat bui', 'Diem xua', 'Ha trang'... have gone deep into the hearts of many generations of music lovers.

April 1 marks the 16th anniversary of musician Trinh Cong Son’s death. This is an opportunity for fans to listen to his immortal lyrical songs about life and love.

"Dust"

"What dust particle transformed into my body
To one day grow up
Oh wonderful dust
The sun shines on a life of wandering..."

Trinh Cong Son once shared: "Every song originates from a certain reason. Sometimes from a story out of nowhere." Inspiration for writingDustuntil the musician watched a movie and read a sad story. In his memoir, he wrote: "A sadness or something close to separation was stirring to awaken within me."

Dust is imbued with the philosophy of life and the law of "birth, aging, sickness and death". The song contains lingering worries about the shortness of human life through the image of dust. However, the song is not only filled with sadness but alsoreflects the lyrical character's happiness for having lived a meaningful life.

"Old love"

"The rain still falls on the ancient tower
Long arms, long eyes, pale
Listening to the autumn leaves and rain rustle my small heels
The long road makes the eyes deeper..."

Old lovewritten by musician Trinh Cong Son in 1960, released on tapeLark 7.Prototype of Diemis Ms. Ngo Thi Bich Diem, a student at Dong Khanh School (Hue). Musician Trinh Cong Son once compared his love affair with Diem to a ghost story, half real and half dream.

The song was translated into Japanese with the titleUtsukushii mukashi.CArtist Khanh Ly performed this version at the Osaka fair in 1970.Diem Xua is also included in the Vietnamese Culture curriculum at a university in Japan. Kansai Gakuin University also has a book written about Diem Xua with a DVD. NHK television station chose the song as the main theme for a film about the marriage between a Japanese man and a Vietnamese woman.

"White Summer"

"Calling the sun on your thin shoulders, the long road, the fluttering shirt
Sunlight through sad eyes, drunken butterfly heart
The path I take to the sky is cloudless
The road is lit up all year round by the sun..."

White Summerwas written by Trinh Cong Son in 1961, after a strange dream in the blazing, scorching sun of a summer noon in Hue. From that summer noon dream, the poem about a beautiful woman in white walking in a cloudless afternoon began to take shape. A week later, the musician witnessed the story of a life-and-death love between the parents of a friend. These two events evoked many haunting and tormenting feelings in the talented artist's soul.

"Then, I combined the dream of white summer flowers with this old love that is as strong as an old shirt, even though it's wrinkled, I still want to call each other's names forever to write the song.White Summer", Trinh Cong Son wrote in his memoirs.

"Sea of ​​memories"

"I'm leaving tomorrow.
The sea remembers your name calling back
The mist drenches the dream
The high sky holds Son Khe's steps..."

Trinh Cong Son composed Bien nho in the summer of 1962. According to many hypotheses, the song was dedicated to a young woman named Ton Nu Bich Khe. Therefore, the phrase "Son Khe" (generally meaning mountains and rivers) is capitalized to create a special meaning for Trinh Cong Son and Bich Khe.

Ngo Quang Canh - a classmate of Trinh Cong Son at Quy Nhon Pedagogical School - once told the story of Sea of ​​Memories: "At that time, I was very young (19 years old) and Mr. Son was (23 years old). I don't know how many nights Mr. Son spent pondering on Quy Nhon beach to remember that person, that elegant and noble Miss Ton Nu, to finally crystallize intoSea of ​​memories,a famous love song for nearly half a century".

"A place to go back to"

"How many years have passed and you are still gone
Wandering around makes life tiring
On our shoulders are the sun and the moon
Shining through a hundred years of a world of coming and going..."

A place to go back tocarries a profound philosophy of life, conveyed through subtle metaphorical lyrics. During his lifetime, the musician admitted that he could not accurately explain this song.

"This is a very strange song, it's really not easy to understand because there are sentences in the song that I myself find difficult to explain. It's written like that, but to explain it clearly is difficult. When I meet many people who, although they have little education, like it. When I ask them if they understand, they answer that they don't understand but feel something inside. When listening, when singing, there is something that touches my heart. I think in art, the most important thing is how to open the shortest path from the heart to the heart of others without having to explain anything more," Trinh Cong Son once said.

Remembering autumn in Hanoi

"... Hanoi in autumn, the yellow rice tree
Red leaf banyan tree, lying next to each other
Old street, old houses, dark brown tiled roofs
Hanoi autumn, Hanoi autumn..."

Remembering autumn in Hanoibrings listeners a feeling of nostalgia and nostalgia with familiar images: the yellow color of the rice tree, the red color of the leaves of the banyan tree, the dark brown color of the ancient houses... All depict a gentle, poetic picture of autumn in Hanoi. Autumn in Hanoi also brings a deep nostalgia that even the author cannot name. Female singer Hong Nhung is the most successful performer of this song.

Like a flying stork

"Is the sun as pink as your lips?
Is the rain as sad as your eyes?
My hair is small
Falling into life as a drifting wave...”

Trinh Cong Son had many love affairs. For each woman who passed through his life, the musician always reserved a precious corner in his heart for them and wished them happiness.

Musician Tran Long An said that the prototype of Nhu Canh Vac Bay was a very beautiful Hue girl. Later, she settled in Japan. Even though they could not be together, the late musician still wished her happiness, even though he was secretly suffering..

"Let the wind take it away"

"Living in life needs a heart
For what do you know?
Let the wind take it away, let the wind take it away...”

Musician Trinh Cong Son believes that people do not live just to survive but "need to have a heart". Life is inherently fair, it does not give anyone everything but also does not take everything away from anyone, so "even if my heart aches", "as long as I have life, I will still be happy".

Let the wind blow away is a love song rich in philosophy of life, imbued with the moral spirit of Buddhism.

According to VNE