Music for the Recruitment of Your Lord [Tang Dynasty] Li He
Xi's riders are chained in brass armor, and their flags are dried with gold painted leaves. The Chinese army stayed drunk in the city of Hengyang, and the purple swallows stepped on the flowers. The spring camp riders are like red jade, walking on horses with whips in the sky. The woman's wall is a moonlit corner, and the tent is not yet open to share the brocade clothes.
Translation
The palace maidservant was wearing a yellow armor, and on the scented wooden pole was fluttering a banner embroidered with gold leaves. The Chinese army went straight to Hengyang, to catch a banquet to beg for drunkenness, and Ziyan's horse stepped on the fallen flowers, all the way to the dainty voice. Spring color full of military camp, horseback general face red like Fei, horse whip, a green onion in the mid-air flying. On the city wall, the dawn moon is dim, the sound of the horn whistling blowing, has not yet participated in the war, it is the first to give his subordinates the reward of brocade clothing.
Notes Xi riding: slaves riding horses. Xi, a slave, also refers to female slaves. Chain armor: the chain armor. The armor has five rings, one ring is protected by the arrowhead, and the other rings are protected by the arrows, so that the arrows can not enter. Luo flag, brocade flag. Xiang Gan, the flagpole of fragrant wood. Gold painted leaves, the flag embroidered with golden leaves. Heyang, the ancient name of Mengjin, in the west of Meng County, Henan Province, often with heavy troops. Ziyan refers to steeds in general. Lu Xiang note: "Purple Yan, green hair ...... are all steed names." Tang Li Bai's Song of the Heavenly Horses: "Turning back to laugh at the Purple Swallow, but realize that your generation is stupid." Red jade, red jade.