Chih Hu Che Yeh () is the 1982 debut album of Taiwanese singer Lo Ta-yu.Topics 1997 - Volume 27, Issues 6-10 - Page 24 "Another Taiwanese with a pan-Chinese vision has been Lo Ta-yu, who began his career with a rebellious album in 1982. The title of the ground-breaking Chih Hu Che Yeh"
The title of the album consists of a meaningless phrase made solely of four grammatical Chinese particles from Classical Chinese. The phrase functions as an adjective; if someone's Chinese is zhīhū zhěyě, it means it is stale and archaic.Mobo C. F. Gao Mandarin Chinese: An Introduction 2000 p.122 "Zhi hu zhe ye has now become a set phrase to refer to classical Chinese. The best way to describe someone who uses too much archaic and stale language is to say that his or her language is too zhi hu zhe ye.11 More function words in ..."
The album broadened the horizons of Chinese music and set a new model for Chinese songwriting. The album had four hit singles: the title song "Zhi hu zhe ye" (), "Lukang, the Little Town" (), "Love Song 1980" (), and "Childhood" (), previously sung by Sylvia Chang in her 1981 album Childhood. The singles from the album remain among Lo Ta-yu's best known songs in mainland China.光華畫報 - Volume 28, Issues 1-6 2003- Page 73 "Tunes popularized in the 1980s such as "Love Song 1980" and "Zhi Hu Zhe Ye" can still drive demand for Luo Ta-you's one-man concerts every year in Beijing and Shanghai. "
Internationally, the album was released in 1982 as the () by Fontana Records with two additional tracks, "Foolishly Waiting" () and "Deaf-Blind" ().
Track listing Side A "Lukang Township" () Lukang is located in northwestern Changhua County, Taiwan "Love Song 1980" () "Childhood" () Previously sung by Sylvia Chang in her 1981 album Childhood "Mistake" () "Lullaby" ()
Side B "Zhīhūzhěyě" (), "Archaisms" or "Semi-incomprehensible talk" "Nostalgia of Four Rhymes" () "I Shall Drink Wine" () "Story of Time" () Previously sung by Sylvia Chang in her album Childhood "Dandelion" ()
Side A "Childhood" "Love Song" Alternative title of "Love Song 1980" "Mistake" "Foolish Waiting" () Originally sung by Fang Cheng () in the 1981 album Merrily Big Soldiers Album () by Fang Cheng and Hsu Pu-liao () "Zhi Hu Zhe Ye" "Lukang Township" ()
Side B "Nostalgia of Four Rhymes" () "Story of Time" () "I Shall Drink Wine" () "Deaf-Blind" () Also heard in the 1982 album Leaders of Tomorrow () "Lullaby" () Alternative Chinese title of "Lullaby" () "Dandelion" ()
Reception The book Taiwan Popular Music — 200 Best Albums () (2009, enlarged from a 1994 list) by National Taiwan University (NTU) students and Ma Shih-fang (), a radio DJ at News 98, ranked this album number one of their "top 20 Taiwan popular albums from 1975 to 1992".
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