From: jamesou@liverbug.hsc.usc.edu (James Ou)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Oct 1, our National Day
Date: 7 Oct 1992 10:20:17 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In <Bvr755.Dyr@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>, utingli@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Tingli Pan)
writes:

>In article <97826@bu.edu> lix@yangtze.bu.edu (Xiaowen Li) writes:
>>
>>Yue Fei is very good, in deed. He can fight and write, both. The problem some
>>ones regard him as ultra-(right/left)est is because of his poem:
>>
>>Zhuang Zi Ji Cai Hu Nu Ru,
>>Xiao Tan Ke Yin Xiong Lu Xue.
>
>But here, the Hu Lu, and Xiong Nu are minority groups. Someone might
>find the prove that the war was just an independent movement. (we are
>quite familiar in CSS) And that is the reason Yue Fei was an ultra
>leftest, or rightest? I'm not sure which side.

I believe we call the radical nationalist as "ultra-rightist".
When we blame Yuefei as a ultra-rightist, we should also consider
the historical background. In the poem, "Hu2 Lu3" and "Xiong1 Nu2"
were referring to the invaders "Jin1" people. "Hu2" is an ancient
Chinese term for "barbarians" from the north. ("Yue4" or "Man2"
were the terms for barbarians from the south. Therefore, we say
"Hu2 Yue4 Yi4 Jia1" [Hu and Yue4 in the same family, for implying
social harmony] and "Nan2 Man2" [Southern barbarians].) Xiong1
Nu2 was an ancient "barbarian" tribe from the North. It no longer
existed in Song4 dynasty. Thus, "Hu2 Lu3" and "Xiong Nu" used in
the poem DID NOT mean Chinese minorities. They MEANT the
invaders, the "Ye2 Lyu4" family.

I did hear a complaint from a Chinese minority before, though. He
said that the poem "Man3 Jiang1 Hong2" should have been banned,
because time had changed and the Ye2 Lyu4 family as well as some
"Northern barbarian tribes" had become members of the big Chinese
family.


*****Man3 Jiang1 Hong2  	   -Yue4 Fei1, Song dynasty
Nu4 Fa3 Chong1 Guang1,
Ping2 Lan2 Chu4,
Xiao1 Xiao1 Yu3 Xue1.
Tai2 Wang4 Yan3,
Yang3 Tian1 Chang2 Xiao4,
Zhuang4 Huai2 Ji1 Lie4.
San1 Shi2 Gong1 Ming2 Cheng2 Yu3 Tu3,
Ba1 Qian1 Li3 Lu4 Yun2 He2 Yue4.
Dai4 Chong2 Tou2 Shou1 Shi2 Jiu4 Shan1 He2,
Chao2 Tian1 Que1.

Jing4 Kang1 Chi3,
You2 Wei4 Xue3,
Cheng2 Zi3 Hen4 He2 Shi2 Mie4.
Jia4 Chang2 Jyu1,
Ta4 Puo4 He4 Lan2 Shan1 Que1.
Zhuang4 Zhi4 Ji1 Can1 Hu2 Lu3 Rou4,
Xiao4 Tan2 Ke3 Yin3 Xiong1 Nu2 Xue3.
Muo4 Deng3 Xian2 Bai2 Liao3 Shao4 Nian2 Tou2,
Kong1 Bei1 Qie4.

(My anger has caused my hair to stand up to push aside my cap;
 I am standing by the fence,
 and the rain is finally coming to a stop.
 I raised my eyes
 to face the heaven, and I shouted.
 I am full of emotion.
 Thirty years of achievement and fame are just like dust and earth;
 and eight thousand miles of my trip were accompanied by the cloud and 
   the moon.
 When I recover the lost territory,
 I will visit the old imperial palace.

 The shame of JingKang years,
 is not yet removed.
 As a general, I hate and wonder when the invaders will be expelled.
 I hope to ride a charriot,
 to break the HeLan mountain where the invaders inhabitate.
 With my determined mind, I will eat the flesh of the barbarians;
 and with laugh, to drink their blood.
 Don't wait until our hair turns grey,
 and feel sorry at that time.