Ancient Poetry: Jile Song (famous song of the Northern Dynasties)

Full text of Jile Song (famous song of the Northern Dynasties):

Cile Song

Folk songs of the Northern Dynasties

Cole River

Chile song, under the Yin Mountain.

The sky is like a dome, covering the four fields.

The sky is clear and the fields are vast.

The wind blows the grass and you can see cattle and sheep.

1. Translation

At the foot of Yinshan Mountain, there is the great plain where the Chile people live.

The sky over the Chile River is connected to the earth on all four sides.

It looks like a felt tent where herdsmen live.

The grasslands under the blue sky are rolling with green waves.

The wind blows to the lower parts of the grass, and groups of cattle and sheep appear and disappear.

2. Creation background

From the fourth to the sixth century AD, most of northern China was under the rule of Xianbei, Xiongnu and other ethnic minorities. Northern China was successively established

Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, etc.

In history books, the first mention of "Chile Song" was in the "History of the North" Volume 6 "Qi Benji" written by Li Yanshou in the early Tang Dynasty: 546 AD.

Gao Huan, the founding emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, led an army of 100,000 troops from Jinyang to the south to attack Yubi, a strategic military town in the Western Wei Dynasty (now south of Jishan County in southern Shanxi Province). He lost 70,000 troops. On the way back to Jinyang, the army It was rumored that one of the arrows was about to die, and Gao Huan was ill and forced himself to hold a banquet for the ministers. In order to boost the morale of the army, he ordered his general Hu Lujin to sing "Chile Song", which made the soldiers nostalgic and boosted the morale of the army.

There have been divergent opinions from all walks of life as to who the author of "Celego" is. Some people think that Hu Lujin is one of the authors, and some even think that the author is Hu Lujin. [6] Some people believe that Hu Lujin is only the earliest known singer, not the author.

3. Appreciation of the work

This folk song outlines the magnificent and fertile scenery of the northern grasslands, expresses the Chile people’s passion for their hometown and life, and opens up their horizons