Chinese New Hymnal
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The Chinese New Hymnal ( in simplified Chinese: 赞美诗 新编) was published during the early 1980s and is the predominantly most used hymn book at the worship of the Protestant churches in the present-day China.
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[edit] Chinese New Hymnal
The Chinese New Hymnal was bugun being edited in 1980 when the religious persecution during the Cultural Revolution, especially against Christianity, subsided and the Christian worship re-started, with the intention to collect both domestic and overseas hymns. Its "Simple notation (in simplified Chinese: 简谱, "jianpu") version," using the numbered musical notation system, was published in 1983 and "staff musical notation version" 1985. The former version is predominantly used in the present-day China.
The Chinese New Hymnal includes 400 hymns, with the addendum of 40 "Short Songs." In addition to the songs from Europe and the Americas, special effort was made to collect the songs written by the Chinese people. It was printed by Amity Printing Co. and published by China Christian Council. "The English-Chinese Bilingual New Hymnal" was later published, in 1998, but is hard to obtain..
The Protestant churches in the present-day China almost exclusively select the worship songs from this hymn book. Some of the Chinese-written songs have been adopted by the hymnals of other countries.
[edit] Protestant Worship in China
The Chinese Union Version of the Bible, the Chinese New Hymnal, the Lord's Prayer as it is written in the Chinese Union Version and the Apostles' Creed are usually used in the Protestant worship in China.
[edit] See also
- List of Chinese hymn books
- Christianity in China
- Protestantism in China
- Hymns and Hymnals
- China Christian Council
- Musical notation, Staff musical notation and Numbered musical notation
- Chinese Union Version of the Bible
[edit] References
- "赞美诗 新编" ("The Chinese New Hymnal"). Published by China Christian Council. First printing in April, 1983; New arrangement in January, 2001; First printing in January, 2002
- "The New Hymnal (English-Chinese Bilingual Edition)". Published by China Christian Council, 1999
[edit] External links
- Chinese New Hymnal (in Chinese, the list of all 400 hymns)
- China Christian Council web's "Art Garden" (including Christian music and songs) in Chinese
