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 |
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