The lyrics of "Farewell My Concubine" are written by Chen Tao; the music is composed by Feng Xiaoquan; and the original song is sung by Tu Honggang. Its lyrics are:
I stood in the blazing wind and hated it.
Swinging all the sheer pain in my heart, I look at the sky and the four directions of cloud movement.
Sword in hand, ask the world who is the hero.
I am standing in the strong wind, and I hate that I can't do it.
Swinging all the sheer heartache, looking at the sky and the four directions of cloud movement.
Sword in hand, ask the world who is the hero.
There are a lot of people in the world who love you, but I love you alone.
The sadness of the parting of the road is different, how many years of love hastily buried.
In my heart you are the most important, sadness and joy *** life and death with.
You use the tenderness to carve the bones, in exchange for my boldness of the sky.
You're the heaviest in my heart, and my tears are rushing toward the sky.
In the next life, I will also be a hero, and I will return to the slanting sun.
You are the heaviest in my heart, sadness and joy **** life and death together.
You use the tenderness to carve the bones, in exchange for my boldness in the sky.
You're the heaviest in my heart, and my tears are rushing toward the sky.
In the next life, I will also be a hero, and I will return to the slanting sun.
I stood in the strong wind and hated it.
Swinging all the sheer heartache, looking at the sky, the four directions of cloud movement.
Sword in hand, ask the world who is the hero.
There are a lot of people in the world who love you, but I love you alone.
The road is different from the road at the time of the sadness, how many years of love is buried in a hurry.
Expanded:
"Farewell My Concubine" is a classic piece by Tu Honggang, the tune is hard-hitting and full of heroism, which mainly depicts the love-hate relationship between Xiang Yu, the king of the western Chu hegemony, and Yu Ji. The story of Farewell My Concubine reflects the touching love between Yu Ji and Xiang Yu. The king of Chu is at the end of his heroism, and Yu Ji cuts her own throat to martyr herself. This sad moment, has been fixed in the Chinese literature between the lines, fixed in the stage of Chinese opera, become the most classic Chinese classical love, the most stirring brilliant legend.
Farewell My Concubine is also a story play of the Qin Dynasty. The story is about Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, who agreed to stop their armies at the boundary of the Honggou. Han Xin used a trick to make Xiang Yu to advance, and laid an ambush on the Ten Mile Mountain, trapping Xiang Yu in Gaixia. Xiang Yu heard the Han army singing Chu songs in all directions and thought that the Chu army had surrendered to the Han, so he drank wine with his concubine Yu Ji to say goodbye. After Yu Ji cut her own throat, Xiang Yu killed himself, and when he came to Wujiang River, he was ashamed to see his father and mother in Jiangdong again, so he cut his own throat and died.