Sing banana song 01 "Qishan" Taiwan green banana "Lotus hoe sing, plant banana also plant your own youth

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Speaking of "tai qieng jiao", it is no longer the abbreviation of National Taiwan University, Tsinghua University and Jiaotong University. In southern Taiwan, these three words are about a group of Qishan people who have been actively involved in public affairs for a long time, and now they have all become modern chivalrous men, not only planting bananas in the fields, but also running field investigations without fear of wind, rain and sun. Using pens as swords and microphones as weapons, they stood up to protect the old street and went to the Kaohsiung municipal government to perform action dramas and cloth strips to protest against the improper setting of the landfill.

After 11 years in the army, Taiwan Green Banana, which boasts that "Taiwan's youth love bananas," released its third album, "planting Youth," in February 2019. In addition to the lyrics and team introduction, the only passage on the album states the purpose of their singing: "We live in an era full of antagonism and conflict of values. In this society, young people have no choice but to survive."... I hope that because you are accompanied by our music, you are willing to try more possibilities, make a commitment to yourself, and choose what you want more freely. One day, we will accompany you to harvest. "

Bananas are to be eaten, youth are to be planted, and the land of Taiwan should be held in the palm of the hand and loved diligently. The children of Qishan, "Taiwan Qingjiao", prove all this with action!

Huang Tangxuan, drummer of "Taiwan green banana". (photography / Li Huiyi)

Banana farmer Lu Xianpan, who danced in the rock area as soon as the music played, was the happiest listener on the scene. He used to take part in the MV shooting of the second album, "partnering with Cassie," and this is the first time he has heard a new album. Speaking of his feelings about the film performance, he, with a cheerful personality, said: "the music is light and good to hear. If you leave, your feet will float."

Good friend Cheng Chih-hung is a Taiwanese lyric translation of "planting Youth" (translated from Taiwanese into English). He is especially moved by the Taiwanese creation of this album. He believes that the creative energy of "Taiwan Green Banana" is rich, and the materials drawn from it go deep into the local cultural memory, the more farmers' life. In order to take into account the accuracy and locality of the translation, Zheng Zhe-hong spent a lot of time confirming the names of the old cinemas and the common names of animals in the mountain fields, but it was also because of this that he found that "Taiwan Green Banana" loved and knew his hometown far more than he had imagined.

Recalling that when he first joined the army in the early days, in order to avoid misunderstanding and hot atmosphere, "Taiwan Green Banana" would deliberately introduce itself before the performance and say, "We are not the 'tai qieng jiao'!" Now, however, they will say, "We really have a drummer at National Taiwan University-Tangxuan." This change is due to the self-confidence that "Taiwan Qingjiao" has accumulated over the past decade.

In an interview after the performance, Lao Wang said that in fact, at the beginning of the year, for the promotional film of his new album "planting Youth," everyone went to the riverbank revetment to shoot MV, but unexpectedly in the distance, people came up and shouted "Taiwan green bananas." only then did they find that they had already surpassed 'tai qieng jiao'! " (the article to be continued, please continue to read)

Series of readings:

Sing the song of banana 02 "the rock band grows bananas, planting bananas is like raising a granddaughter, cutting bananas, like catching mountain pigs.

Singing banana song 03 "sprouting new buds in the soil of frustration" Taiwan green bananas stand up to protect their hometown

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