Meiling Three Chapters
Chen Yi
In the winter of 1936, Meishan was trapped. I lay in the jungle for more than twenty days with my remaining injuries. I couldn't get rid of my worries, so I left three poems on my clothes. Xuanweiji
〔一〕
How do you feel about beheading today?
Starting a business is difficult and full of challenges.
Here we go to Quantai to recruit old troops,
with one hundred thousand banners to kill Yama.
〔2〕
The war in the southern country has been going on for ten years,
This head must be hung at the gate of the country.
If you all work harder,
The good news will come to you as paper money.
〔三〕
Joining yourself in the revolution is your home,
The bloody storm will have an end.
Taking justice and becoming benevolent is what happened today,
The flowers of freedom are planted everywhere in the world.
Translation
In the winter of 1936, the Meishan guerrilla base was besieged by the enemy. At that time, I was injured and sick. I hid in the bushes and grass for more than 20 days, thinking that I might not be able to break out this time. I wrote three poems and hid them under my clothes. Soon, we were lucky enough to escape the enemy's siege.
What do you want to write now that your head is about to be beheaded? It took many battles to establish this business, how difficult it was! This time I will go to the underworld to gather the sacrificed comrades. Use an army of 100,000 to kill the Kuomintang reactionaries!
The South has been fighting for ten years. After death, the head will be hung on the city gate. Those comrades who are still alive must work harder and pay tribute to me with news of victory.
Revolutionaries are at home all over the world, and the bloody storm should have an end. If you sacrifice your life for a just cause today, the reactionaries will surely fail, and the beautiful ideal of freedom and happiness will surely be realized.
Notes:
Spin: soon.
Quantai: the legendary underworld.
Old subordinates: former subordinates. This refers to the fallen comrades.
Flag: Here it refers to the troops. Jing, a flag used for command or clearing the way in ancient times.
Beacon smoke: Fireworks lit on a high platform as an alarm when an enemy invaded the ancient border, and later generally referred to war. This refers to the domestic revolutionary war at that time.
Gentlemen: Here is what you comrades mean. Zhu, many, everyone. Jun, a respectful title for people.
Ya: margin, end.
Taking righteousness into benevolence: dedicating oneself to the cause of truth or justice. This refers to heroic sacrifice for the cause of liberation of the Chinese people. Get, get. Righteousness, justice. To achieve, to complete, to achieve. Benevolence now refers to lofty morality.
Historical Background
"Three Chapters in Meiling" are three poems written by Chen Yi, a Chinese communist, in the winter of 1936 when Meiling was besieged by the 46th Division of the Kuomintang. poetry.
In October 1934, after the Long March of the Central Red Army, the main force, the 16,328 Red 24th Division and local armed *** who stayed in the Soviet area to persist in the struggle were brutally encircled and suppressed by the enemy, and most of them were lost. He Shuheng, Mao Zetan and other senior party and Red Army cadres died in the breakout.
Qu Qiubai and Liu Bojian were captured and killed. After the enemy occupied the Central Soviet Area, they brutally killed revolutionary cadres and masses. According to some data, 120,000 people were killed in Ruijin, more than 8,300 households in Ningdu, and more than 40,000 households in western Fujian.
The few troops who broke out joined local armed forces and fought guerrillas with the enemy. After Xiang Ying and Chen Yi moved to fight, they came to the Youshan area and Meiling in southern Jiangxi in February 1935, and began an arduous campaign. Three years of guerrilla war.
Excerpted from Three Chapters of Meiling - Baidu Encyclopedia, hope to adopt it^-^