棲霞山 QiXia Rainbow Mountain 送我一枝小紅楓葉

當地老嫗告訴我上棲霞山的路 她說的方言﹐我大略能猜的懂 送我一枝小紅楓葉 不奉陪到底了 送她一些吃茶費 Local old woman volunteered to point the way to QiXia Rainbow Mountain Her dialect I can guess somewhat She gave me a branch of little maple leaves I kept in my notebook She could not get up too high I gave her some change for tea 姨婆說她的祖先長埋於棲霞山 為何美好的江山 常遭橫禍 國民黨到底始終沒有投降日本 Great Aunt said her grandparents were buried In QiXia rainbow mountain I often like to visit here Because you are beautiful So you get the tragic fate After all, Nationalist never surrendered to Japan 如李香君﹐晚年隱身在此山中 血濺桃花扇﹐寧守身如玉﹐未降情。 Just like Lee Xiangjun, as a Nanjing beauty She became a nun in this mountain The forehead spills blood on the Peach flower fan Never did she surrender to the Qing dynasty invader 祖訓如南宋的建康府通判楊邦義﹐1129抗金兵兵敗﹐不投降﹐被刨心。 The Soong dynasty's Nanjing judicial official, Yang Bangyi, he fought the invading Jin tribe, would not surrender and was executed with his heart poked out. 南朝的昭明太子﹐潔身自好﹐編成中國第一部文選﹐他拒絕女人與豪奢。 Southern Dynasty's Zhaoming crown prince was cultivating himself, to compile the first Anthology of Literature. 到底﹐清得學漢字﹐漢的哲學是自由﹐古老的自由。 After all, Qing invaded Han's land, but Han people philosophy is freedom, and the ancient free world. 我就是她們遺下的自由的種子﹐母親生于鼓樓﹐已化了灰﹐秋瑾被處決﹐他們自由的心﹐仍在人間飄蕩﹐永遠的飄蕩。 So I am what they left in the world, a free agent seed, my mother was born in Gulou, the drum Tower hospital, as her ash, Qiujin was executed by invaders, their heart of free spirit, is still floating, and in the rhythm of the local free ambience.