secretfanspace | Eighth Post!

You're viewing

secretfanspace
Create a Dreamwidth Account Learn More

Reload page in style: site light

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags

hoisinsauce posting in

secretfanspace

It's one thing if mankind is hunted to extinction by ChatGPT, but I really do object to being executed by Bing.

(https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/2511.html?thread=3169743#cmt3169743 )

Welcome back! Fandom chat, misc creativity, internet weirdness, books, films, anything! Tell meme about it so we can get to the next post title!

(start a comment thread by replying to this post)

Current Mood: hopeful

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From: (Anonymous)

假如我是一只鸟，
if i were a bird,
我也应该用嘶哑的喉咙歌唱：
i too should use my hoarse throat to sing:
这被暴风雨所打击着的土地，
this land that has been battered by the storm,
这永远汹涌着我们的悲愤的河流，
this river that surges eternal with our grief,
这无止息地吹刮着的激怒的风，
this wind gusting endlessly in its wrath,
和那来自林间的无比温柔的黎明...
and from the woods, that incomparably gentle dawn...
— 然后我死了，
— and when i die,
连羽毛也腐烂在土地里面。
even my feathers will rot in the ground.
为什么我的眼里常含泪水？
why do my eyes so often well with tears?
因为我对这土地爱得深沉...
because i love this land so deeply...

I've entirely run out of interesting things to say here. This is the problem with lifting poetry off a puzzleset - all the poems had to be easily recognizable so we're stuck with a bunch of patriotic stuff that gets taught in schools. Ironic, really, considering Ai Qing was later branded a rightist and thrown into a labor camp during the Cultural Revolution. His experiences heavily influenced the work of his son, artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei.

Two more poems left and they're both long. Wish me luck.

From: (Anonymous)

I wasn't expecting the "patriotic" descriptor, since I read it as criticism! I could see it being just as easily titled "Lament for a Fandom that Was". I went back and read it the other way. But my first interpretation was that it was a poem heaping scorn on the current state of things (and by implication, the rulers)!

From: (Anonymous)

Yeah, it's definitely a bit more complicated than I'm making it out to be. This poem was written in 1938, during the Chinese Civil War and shortly after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It's certainly angry about the current state of things, but it comes from a place of patriotism and love for the land (but perhaps not the country).

From: (Anonymous)

DD

I definitely read it as patriotic off the bat. IDK, and don't want to presume dan's background, but as a chinese dan, this feels 100% Qu Yuan energy.