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1 THE BALLAD OF MULAN – Anonymous English Translation and Pinyin by Feng Xin-ming (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 -- Last night I saw the conscription notice; it’s the Khan’s Great Call- 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; 3 In the south market, a bridle; in the north market, a long whip. - In the morning she says good-bye to her parents; in the evening she sleeps at the side of the Yellow River. - She doesn’t hear the sound of parents calling her, “” “” But hears the sound of the