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| Recording: 05.39 to 07.03 View Illustration 10 Return to Da Hujia scroll title page | 首頁 |
| Scene 9: Pricking blood (from her finger) to write a letter (home) | 刺血寫書 |
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From 18 Songs of a Nomad Flute, here illustrating the qin melody
Da Hujia (Nomad Reed Pipe, Long Version)
Scroll painting and calligraphy by Bai Yunli based on a Song dynasty original;
poem by Liu Shang translated by Robert Rorex and Wen Fong
In the past, when Su Wu was questioned by the Khan,
It is said that the migrating geese knew how to carry a message.
Imitating Su Wu, I prick blood to write a letter;
In this letter I write a thousand and ten thousand grievances.
But the bearded barbarian youths are excellent horsemen;
They bend their bows and shoot flying birds, far and near.
Now the geese of the frontier are afraid of people;
How can I have my heart heard from these ends of the earth?
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