The Anton Armstrong Choral Series

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Fa Shu Ha
Under That Flower Tree
arranged for SATB by
Tsai, Yu -Shan
lyrics by
Gu, Siou-Ru
220 nw 29th street
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Fa Shu Ha
Under that Flower Tree
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Gu, Siou-Ru
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arr. Tsai, Yu-Shan
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Copyright 2011 by Tsai, Yu-Shan
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A Pronunciation CD is available from the publisher
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Fa Shu Ha (Under that Flower Tree)
Word by word translation
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Fa Shu Ha you have ever heard of
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not?
Fa Shu Ha blossomed full of flowers
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People if strolled passing by
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the red white flowers
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would float down you in front float down you

float down you feet under
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Fa Shu Ha has a blue-dye garment shop,
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Fa Shu Ha has an elderly master oh

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Has crafted blue-dye garments

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Has dressed charming girls

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Are like the door in front flowers to and fro

don't know how many
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Fa Shu Ha
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Stand flower tree under
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Hakka's traditional garment shop

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Program Notes
Taiwan is an island nation off the coast of south east China. Its area is roughly the same as
Maryland but has the population of Texas. Taiwan was originally inhabited by the Aboriginal
people comprising of more than a dozen tribes. In the Seventeenth Century, Chinese migrant
workers were encouraged to settle in Taiwan by the Dutch administration. The Chinese migrants
included two different ethnic groups that came from two different regions of China. They were the
Hoklo from the Fujian Province and the Hakka from the Guangdong Province. In today's Taiwan,
the Hoklo accounts for around 70% of the total population while the Hakka around 15%.
With the occupation of the Chinese Nationalist Government in 1945, Chinese Mandarin was
installed onto Taiwan as its "official" language. For the next fifty years, Mandarin became the
dominant language of Taiwan, as school children were forbidden to speak any other languages.
In today's Taiwan, all non-Mandarin languages are in danger of becoming extinct. This is
particularly the case for many Aboriginal languages and Hakka.
Fa Shu Ha is the old name for a Hakka village in Meinong, Kaohsiung Taiwan. It was also the old
home of Ms. Gu Hsiu Ru, the lyricist of this song. In her childhood memory, Fa Shu Ha was a
symbol of Meinong's prosperity. The village was bustling with people much like the blossoming
Tung flower tree. However, with the excessive development and the widening urban rural gap in
today's world, neither flowers nor trees exist in Fa Shu Ha. The name of the village became an
empty shell. The traditional Hakka blue garment also retreated from modern lives, leaving only
an old master in his nineties, stubbornly guarding his withering blue garment shop.
When Fa Shu Ha was first arranged by Ms. Yu Shan Tsai, she dedicated the first edition to the
Formosa Singers. One of the founding missions of the Formosa Singers was to preserve
the beautiful languages and cultures left by the ancestors. It may be an uphill battle trying to
rescue or resuscitate these languages and cultures through choral music, but that will not stop
the Formosa Singers from trying.
Yu-Shan Tsai, (b. 1968) a native of Taiwan, studied piano with Ellen Mack
and earned both Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Piano Performance from
Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. During her study in the
States, Tsai was awarded several prizes including the first prize of
Interlochen Arts Academy Concerto Competition in 1985 and the first prize
of Missouri Music Teachers' Association (MMTA) Piano Competition in
1986. After returning to Taiwan in 1995, Tsai began her career as an active
accompanist and performs with local musicians and ensemble groups on a
regular basis. In 1999, she joined the Formosa Singers, one of the most
prestigious chamber choirs in Taiwan and by working with the group, she gained the knowledge
needed to effectively write for voice. As an arranger, Tsai has made it her priority to focus on the
"roots music" of Taiwan, mainly folk music. Her arrangements can be found on recordings by
Formosa Singers, the majority of which have been nominated and even awarded for the best
Classical Music Album at the Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan.