Ding Wei - Small Landscape

It's interesting that many PRC artists are eschewing English names... they just go by pinyin of their name.

To the extent I have a preference, I must admit I love the English names of many Chinese artists... Fish Leong, Oxide Pang, Cheer Chen, Deserts Chang, etc. Plus name drama, like when Alan Luo became Show Luo (his Chinese name stayed the same). I love names period. I would be happy if everyone had tons of names... and that does actually have precedent in Chinese history... your birth name, your style, your posthumous name if you're an emperor, etc.

I've got a Chinese name, and picking it was a lot of fun, so I feel sad if Chinese can't have the fun of picking an English name, lol.

HOLY CRAP, I just idly Googled my Chinese name and there are other people who have it! MORE THAN ONE. Among them, a park director, some kind of academic, and a cute teenage girl! Rock on, 王愛真們!

Anyway that's off the subject. LOL.

Trying a different formatting. I'm leaving off the tone numbers in the pinyin because, first of all, the tones are irrelevant when you sing, and second of all, I think it looks messier.

小風景	Xiao Fengjing	Small Landscape
小石頭	xiao shitou	a small stone
小蜜蜂	xiao mifeng	a small honeybee
小螞蟻	xiao mayi	a small ant
小聰明	xiao congming	small intelligence
小問題	xiao wenti	small problems
小秘密	xiao mimi	small secrets
大天空	da tiankong	the great sky
大海洋	da haiyang	the great ocean
大大的宇宙和想像	dada de yuzhou he xiangxiang	the great big cosmos and the imagination
小的我	xiao de wo	small me
只能當	zhi neng dang	only able to make
小風景	xiao fengjing	a small landscape
太陽看不見我	taiyang kanbujian wo	the sun can't see me,
我卻感覺到溫暖的光	wo que ganjuedao wennuan de guang	and yet I do feel the warm light
星星找不到我	xingxing zhaobudao wo	the stars can't find me,
我卻大聲地對它們歌唱	wo que dasheng de dui tamen ge chang	and yet I'm singing a song to them in a big voice1

1. Normally I would translate as loud voice, but because of the big/small in this song I'm being more literal.