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About the ancient song in the movie
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Jul 8, 2006
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Some one asked about the Beauty song (JiaRen Qu) in the movie. Here is some background info.
The song is from the ancient "YueFu" collection of songs and poems. YueFu was the government 'music department' that was first set up in the Han Dynasty (206BC-24AD). Its duty is to compose new songs for the emperor while collecting past and current songs/poems from the people all over China. The whole collection of songs/poems can be categorized according to their different purposes, i.e. religion, entertainment, military.
Reading these songs/poems can be quite interesting, because they show you how people live/think more than 2000 years ago. And among the collections you can find several deep and moving love songs/poems. One classic is "The Peacock Flies Southeast". In fact the story of Mulan (Disney film) is also based on one of these poems/songs.
About the song in the movie, it might be a fragment of a long poem. The English lyric from my memory:
"There is a beauty in the north, She is a paragon of beauty, She glances once and the city is in ruin, She glances twice and the nation is in destruction..." When you talk about some tragic beauty whose fate happened to be part of the history. |
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