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Memorial Hymn book with Music. White paper 183 leaves. By Rev. A. Woodruff. [2] Shanghai Hymn Book, 132 hymns, by William Muirhead, D.D. 1888. [2] Union Hymn Book, Shanghai Dialect. 117 leaves. [2] Ningpo Hymn Book. 183 leaves. [2] Kiang-nan Hymn Book. Index. 199 Leaves. [2] Gospel Hymns, 210 in number, 9 different styles. China Baptist ...
Diagram 1 The Type of Hymns in Different Versions of HUP [1] [3] To ensure that HUP1936 was a Chinese hymnal, the hymnal committee, led by Timothy Ting-Fang Liu (1891–1947, (劉廷芳), the dean of the school of religious studies at Yenching University, requested that HUP1936 should contain at least 10% of Chinese tunes. To collect Chinese ...
This hymnal features two indexes. The first one arranges hymns according to the first notes in the melody and the second one to the first line of text. The Protestant churches in the present-day China almost exclusively select the worship songs from this hymn book. A new printing of the Chinese Union Version Bible by the Amity Foundation in ...
Under Article 9, willful alteration of the music or lyrics is criminally punishable by imprisonment of up to two years or up to 360 day-fines [37] [38] and, although both Chinese and Portuguese are official languages of the region, the provided sheet music has its lyrics only in Chinese. Mainland China has also passed a similar law in 2017.
The 2012 Chinese film Back to 1942 featured the Canaan hymn "The River of Life" as its theme song. The hymn "I Love My Home" has also appeared on China Central Television, [16] [17] sung by a Christian family, [16] despite the channel's reputation as propaganda of the officially atheist state. [18] Many Chinese regard the Canaan hymns a gift ...
The Xiabuzan (Chinese: 下部讚 [1]) is a Chinese Manichaean hymn scroll found by British archaeologist Aurel Stein in the Mogao Grottoes. It contains a series of hymns used in religious ceremonies. It is currently held at the British Library, where it is catalogued as number S.2659. [2] [3]
Hymns of Praise. 38 leaves. Shanghai, 1858. By Rev. William Muirhead. This is a collection of 100 hymns in the Shanghai dialect, prefaced by a statement of thirty principal doctrines of the Christian religion, with an elaborate detail of pertinent Scripture texts under each. A subsequent edition was published in 55 leaves. Salvation Hymns. 39 ...
The lyrics are in classical literary Chinese. For example: ěr (爾) is a literary equivalent of both singular and plural "you" (which are differentiated in modern Chinese) depending on the context. In this case, it is the plural of "you". fěi (匪) is a classical synonym of "not" (非 fēi).