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| Song title | |||
| "長平傳" Jyutping: Coeng4 Ping4 Zyun2 English: The Tale of Cheungping[1] | |||
| Original Upload Date | |||
| August 6, 2020 | |||
| Singer | |||
| Chiyu, Egami You, and Minus Xingchen, Shian, Cangqiong, Yun Yu Guang (chorus) | |||
| Producer(s) | |||
| Views | |||
| 3,500+ | |||
| Links | |||
| bilibili Broadcast | |||
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Lyrics[]
| Cantonese | Jyutping | English |
| 悼長平宮主 | In memory of the Changping Princess | |
| 明代末君崇禎帝之女 | Daughter of the last Ming emperor Chongzhen | |
| 馝花紡裰擾蚙蠰 | bit6 faa1 fong2 zyut3 jiu5 kam4 joeng6 | Fragrant flowers and the spinning and mending of clothes disturb the centipedes and praying mantises. |
| 朙月輝瀉連崥岟 | ming4 jyut6 fai1 se3 lin4 bei2 joeng2 | The beams of the lambent[2] moon roll like a flood down to the steep foothills. |
| 落箭鼎廟斷魂悢 | lok6 zin3 ding2 miu6 dyun6 wan4 loeng6 | The fallen arrows by the grand imperial hall snap my bereft soul in twain. |
| 殘敗宮郭隱紅牆 | caan4 baai6 gung1 gwok3 jan2 hung4 coeng4 | Red walls[3] are concealed by the ruined palace’s outer walls. |
| 嘆今宵苦寒忍病悵 | taan3 gam1 siu1 fu2 hon4 jan2 bing6 coeng3 | “To endure tonight’s bitter cold will bring on worry and despair,” I sigh. |
| 骸殞鬼哭兵敗仗 | haai4 wan5 gwai2 huk1 bing1 baai6 zoeng3 | Ghosts weep over the bones of the perished as the soldiers know defeat. |
| 戁冤㷭火盾盔響 | naan5 jyun1 fung1 fo2 teon5 kwai1 hoeng2 | Terrified in the face of such injustice, they light the beacon fires, and their shields and helmets rattle. |
| 何故生女皇媺孃 | ho4 gu3 saang1 jyu5 wong4 mei5 noeng4 | Why were you born as the lovely empress’s daughter? |
| 貴主徽音美， | gwai3 zyu2 fai1 jam1 mei5, | The sound of your guqin is beauty itself,[4] |
| 前朝典命光。 | cin4 ziu1 din2 meng6 gwong1. | And the previous dynasties' laws are the light. |
| 鴻名垂遠近， | hung4 ming4 seoi4 jyun5 kan5, | Your good name is known far and wide, |
| 哀誄著興亡。 | oi1 loi6 zoek6 hing3 mong4. | Eulogizing your rise and fall. |
| 馝花紡裰擾蚙蠰 | bit6 faa1 fong2 zyut3 jiu5 kam4 joeng6 | Fragrant flowers and the spinning and mending of clothes disturb the centipedes and praying mantises. |
| 朙月輝瀉連崥岟 | ming4 jyut6 fai1 se3 lin4 bei2 joeng2 | The beams of the lambent moon roll like a flood down to the steep foothills. |
| 落箭鼎廟斷魂悢 | lok6 zin3 ding2 miu6 dyun6 wan4 loeng6 | The fallen arrows by the grand imperial hall snap my bereft soul in twain. |
| 殘敗宮郭隱紅牆 | caan3 baai6 gung1 gwok3 jan2 hung4 coeng4 | Red walls are concealed by the ruined palace’s outer walls. |
| 傘靑體憔坐羅帳 | saam3 cing1 tai2 ciu4 zo6 lo4 zoeng3 | With a teal parasol, your haggard body is seated behind a gauze canopy. |
| 泥染琀器粧臺上 | nai4 jim5 ham6 hei3 zong1 toi4 soeng6 | Colored paste and jade for the Emperor's mouth sit atop the dressing table. |
| 殔煤山芘諱絲長 | ji6 mui4 saan1 bei3 wai5 si1 coeng4 | His coffin at Jingshan[5] is covered with high mallow, his unspoken name a silk[6] unfurling into eternity. |
| 偕戀心切惓魍魎 | haai4 lyun2 sam1 cit3 kyun4 mong5 loeng5 | We long for each other earnestly, tired of demons.[7] |
| 金枝秀髮，玉質含章； | gam1 zi1 sau3 faat3, juk6 zat1 ham4 zoeng1; | Your lustrous, beautiful hair befits the emperor's daughter;[8] |
| 逢德曜於皇家，迓桓君於帝女。 | fung4 dak1 jiu6 jyu1 wong4 gaa1, ngaa6 wun4 gwan1 jyu1 dai3 neoi5. | You are like a Meng Guang[9] born to the imperial family, or like Yaoji[10] receiving her lord. |
| 然而心戀宮闈，神傷輦路。 | jin4 ji4 sam1 lyun2 gung1 wai4, san4 soeng1 lin5 lou6. | However, your heart longs for a residence fit for an empress, dejected as you travel down the royal road. |
| 重雲筆墨，何心金榜之門； | zung6 wan4 bat1 mak6, ho4 sam1 gam1 bong2 zi1 mun4; | Though your brush ink is heavy like clouds, how can you have the heart to think of the honor roll; |
| 飛霖轂林，豈意玉蕭之館！ | fei1 lam4 guk1 lam4, hei2 ji3 juk6 siu1 zi1 gun2! | The wheels of the carriage speed through the rainy forest, and who cares for the princess's dreary emotions! |
| 弱不勝悲，溘然薨逝。 | joek6 bat1 sing1 bei1, hap6 jin4 gwang1 sai6. | You are so frail that sadness is unbearable, and suddenly you die.[11] |
| 當扶上仙之日，距儂李下嫁之年。 | dong1 fu4 soeng5 sin1 zi1 jat6, keoi5 nung4 lei5 haa6 gaa3 zi1 nin4. | On the day of the emperor being helped to join the immortals, in the year that the princess would have married down, |
| 星燧初周，芳華未歇，嗚呼悲哉！ | sing1 seoi6 co1 zau1, fong1 waa4 mei6 hit3, wu1 fu1 bei1 zoi1! | The meteors had made their first orbit, her youth was not yet finished, oh, woe is she! |
| 含樟紫芽曳靈幛 | ham4 zoeng1 zi2 ngaa4 jai6 ling4 zoeng3 | The tea prepared behind spiritual hanging scrolls contains violet buds[12] of camphor.[13] |
| 繁渺怎寄溫柔鄉 | faan4 miu5 zam2 gei3 wan1 jau4 hoeng1 | How could I force this woman[14] to carry the burden of so many uncertainties? |
| 半盞砒霜殞瑛薌 | bun3 zaan2 pei1 soeng1 wan5 jing1 hoeng1 | With half a cup of arsenic, we perish, fragrant and lustrous. |
| 無悔歸去如嘾嘗 | mou4 fui3 gwai1 heoi3 jyu4 taam5 soeng4 | We have no regrets as we return, keeping the taste deep in our mouths. |
| 落花滿天蔽月光 | lok6 faa1 mun5 tin1 bai3 jyut6 gwong1 | Fallen flowers conceal the moonlight across the sky. |
| 零落萬方 | ling4 lok6 maan6 fong1 | Withered, they are scattered in all directions. |
English translation by Perfecto Incognito and MeaningfulUsername
Translation Notes[]
- ↑ It's based on 帝女花 The Flower Princess, a Cantonese opera about the tragic deaths of the Changping Princess and her husband, Zhou Shixian (or Zhou Xian), as a result of the fall of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). In Cantonese, their names are romanized as Cheungping and Saihin.
- ↑ 朙, an older version of 明 (both pronounced "míng" and meaning "bright"), is a reference to the Ming Dynasty.
- ↑ This may be referring to the Forbidden Palace.
- ↑ This verse is a quote from Wu Weiye's poem "An Eulogy for Chang Princess in Siling."
- ↑ The Cantonese has this as "Coal Hill," the colloquial name that came about from rumors that coal was stored at the base.
- ↑ In Act II of The Flower Princess, Cheungping offers to hang herself with three feet of red silk for the sake of her father, the emperor.
- ↑ 魍魎, "demons," may be referring to the Qing usurpers.
- ↑ This verse is a quote from Zhang Chen's "Eulogy for the Changping Princess."
- ↑ Meng Guang refers to one of four famously ugly but virtuous women of Chinese history; 德曜 was her courtesy name. Her story is supposed to be the origin of the idiom 舉案齊眉, "mutual respect in a marriage."
- ↑ In Song Yu's "The Rhapsody of Gaotang," a king of the state of Chu encounters Yaoji, the goddess of the Wu Mountains, which was taken by later ancient Chinese writers to mean they had sex.
- ↑ The real Changping died during her pregnancy, and the source for this verse is more historical than the opera.
- ↑ Typically camphor flowers (including in the Beijing area where this story takes place) are white; however, the species Camphorea purpurea, native to the Cantonese-speaking region of Guangdong, has purple stems.
- ↑ Cheungping and her husband, Saihin, swear their love on intertwined camphor trees at the beginning of the opera and die under the same trees at the end.
- ↑ 溫柔鄉, literally "sweet native home," is a metaphor for women.
Discography[]
This song was featured on the following albums:
- SSParty!!2