MulanBallad4Web-简.PDF

1 URL for Literature Page: /literary.php URL for Home Page: /index.php THE BALLAD OF MULAN – Anonymous -English Translation and Pinyin by Feng Xin-ming (Simplified Chinese Script) - (Note: Pinyin to enable entry by ordinary keyboard: ji - = first tone, ji’ = second tone, ji^ = third tone, ji= fourth tone.) 。 ji ji again ji ji, Mulan in front of door weave “Ji ji, ” and “ji ji ,” Mulan weaves in front of the door. “Now we don’t hear the loom shuttle; we only hear our daughter sighing. - ,- Daughter, what are you thinking about? What are you nostalgic over?” -- “I am not thinking about anything, and I am not nostalgic. 2 -- 1 Last night I saw the conscription notice; it’s the Khan’s Great Call- 2 up . -- There are twelve scrolls of army rolls, and every scroll has Father’s name.” -- “” Father has no elder son; I have no big brother. -- Let me buy saddle and horse, and go to war in Father’s place.” -- -- In the east market a fine horse is bought; in the west market, a saddle and its skirt; 1 “Khan”: “Khan” is a Mongolian and Turkic title for “ruler”. The reason that Mulan’s emperor was called by that term was because Mulan lived under the Northern Wei Dynasty of 386 – 535 C.E., which was ruled by the sinicized but “non-Chinese”, i.e. non-Han, Xian- Bei- (Xianbei) nationality, a formerly steppe horsemen people who originally spoke a language belonging to the Altaic family (the Mongolian, Turkic, and Manchu-Tungustic languages). 2 Th