Huai Hua’s poetry and songs shine like two guiding lights, enriching the world with their warmth and wisdom.
Huai Hua was a Singaporean poet and composer. He started writing poetry in 1958 and taught himself to compose in 1979. He passed away in April 2023.
This site is dedicated to remembering his music, literature and poetry works.
Huai Hua
Poet
·Composer
1936
Born in Singapore
Ancestral Origin: Bianliang, Henan
/
Chao'an, Guangdong
Graduated from
Tuan Mong Primary School
1950
Catholic High School
1956
Nanyang University
1960
| 1958 | |
|---|---|
| 1958 | My First Love ― Muse |
| December 1962 ~ April 2023 | |
| Authored | |
| Authored | “We Sing On The Water Tower” |
| “With Your Voice In My Heart” | |
| “The Poetic Long March of Huai Hua” | |
| “By Yon Rajang River” | |
| “A Path Without Regret” (Autobiographical Novel) | |
| Compiled | |
| Compiled | “I Love This Land” (1920s-1980s Chinese Poems and Poetics) (Kuala Lumpur) |
| “Glancing Back On Half A Century 1938-1988 Tropical Poetry” (Beijing) | |
| “Singing Under The Flag 1940-1990” (Co-edited with Lin Yi, Hong Kong Edition) | |
| “Songbook · The Treasury of Nanyang Songs 1939~2011” | |
| Republished Tie Ge's Poetry Anthology “Under the Flag” (November 1947) | |
| “Treasury of Chinese New Poems (1920~1998)” | |
| 1971/1974 | |
| Editor-in-Chief | |
| Editor-in-Chief | “Equatorial Poetry” |
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“Countryside Literature and Arts”
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| 1979 | |
| 1979 |
Iron grid shadows, like musical staves, fill me with red notes of blood. |
| 1999 | |
| 1999 | CD Production |
| “My Dear Mandolin” (Distributed in the United Kingdom) | |
| 2001 | |
| 2001 | “I Wish I Were A Little Light Boat - Huaihua Song Collection” (People's Music Publishing House) |
| August 29, 2004 | |
| August 29, 2004 | “Huai Hua Music Special ― Huai Hua's Dreamriver” |
| February 24, 2008 | |
| February 24, 2008 | “Free Talk on Huai Hua's Semicentennial Poetic Art” |
| December 15, 2013 | |
| December 15, 2013 | “A Treasured Night of Nanyang Songs 1939～2011” |
| June 20, 2015 | |
| June 20, 2015 | “Concert for the World Anti-fascist Victory (1945～2015)” |
| August 27, 2016 | |
| August 27, 2016 | “Huaihua Music Special · Two ― Spark and Songs” |
| August 2016 | |
| August 2016 | |
| August 26, 2023 | |
| August 26, 2023 | “Huaihua Music Special · Three ― Song of Winter” |
| August 2023 | |
| August 2023 | “The Red Banner in the Wind” |