Common Jasmine Orange (song)

"Common Jasmine Orange"

A 27-second sample of "Common Jasmine Orange", highlighting its soft rock and R&B production that draws influences from traditional Chinese music.

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"Common Jasmine Orange" is a Chinese-style poetic love song that was inspired by the poem Seven Miles of Fragrance by Xi Murong.^[2] Commentators have described the song as a romantic summer number that captures the feelings one gets from a love interest.^[3]

The music video for the song was filmed in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The chosen locations for the shoot included local shrines, rice paddies, and fields of flowers. During the filming of the movie Initial D in Japan, Chou requested a day off from the crew to shoot the music video. In the video, he and actress Chie Tanaka are shown running through the garden hand in hand and sitting on a swing.^[4]

In 2007, the lyrics of "Common Jasmine Orange" appeared on an exam at Xuhui High School in Taipei. In the exam, the questions asked: "In Jay Chou's song 'Common Jasmine Orange', he creates the image of 'summer' to express his love for a woman. What is the symbolic meaning?", as well as: "In the line 'The taste of saury, both the cat and you want to know', what techniques does the author use to express the man's passion for a woman?" In response, lyricist Vincent Fang said that even he could not answer the questions, and in the end only five students passed.^[5]