Mandarin [edit]
Etymology [edit]
精神 (lively) + 音樂 (music). 精神 is sometimes mistranslated as "spiritual," though a more apt translation of 精神 in this context would be "spirited."
精神音樂 (jīngshén yīnyuè)
- a genre of Cantonese music popularized in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s