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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Foreign Media focus on ‘Dragon fist’ (Long Quan), asking who is the singer for that song

According to ‘Xing Hua She’ (New Chinese society) Olympics channel, the heavenly prince, Jay Chou’s oriental song ‘Dragon Fist’ (Long Quan) was played on the 15th of this month, during the intermittence of an Olympics basketball match. There was a foreign media friend who turned to ask a reporter for the song’s name and the singer. The reporter told him that the song is known as ‘Long Quan’ and the singer is Jay Chou, also he added that he is one of the favorite artists in China. The foreigner expressed that he and his friends like the song very much and even move and dance a little to that Hip-hop song, and they appear to enjoy the tunes.

The lyrics in the song ‘Dragon Fist’ reflected the specialty in the Chinese culture and its building structures, it even includes the lyrics of using dragon fist to open the skies, and thunder the ground, signaling the come back of China and how it is growing stronger. ‘Dragon fist’ is a song with a mixture of Chinese and Hip-hop style music, and that’s the reason why it is so well accepted by both locals and oversea friends.

The atmosphere, which the US NBA team bought to the China Olympics basketball stadium, is the highlight of the start of the basketball matches, and its special because it’s a blend of Chinese and international elements. Playing Jay Chou’s ‘Dragon Fist’ is only the tip of the iceberg. The cheer leading team dressed in Beijing Opera costumes to do some calisthenics, Ukraine added their own culture in it showing ‘Glamour girls are pretty and comes like a storm’, and the whole show was labeled as ‘Culture merge between Chinese and other cultures’, and had won the attention of people from the rest of the world.

**Jay2u news team’s note: Jay’s songs selected for the opening events of the Olympic games does not only consist of ‘Dragon Fist’. According to Jay2u, Jay Chou’s official fanclub website, the part in ‘Fans discussion’ ‘Ge Mi Xian Liao’ subforum, there are fans who noticed and recorded the following songs that was played over the Olympics events, such as ‘Nun chucks’, ‘Green Floral Porcelain’, ‘Cowboys on the run’, and many more. These songs were played at the scene of the Olympics games and this shows how well accepted Jay Chou’s is in China!

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