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| Recording: 10.01 to 10.40 Da Hujia scroll title page <-- Scene 14 <-- --> Scene 16 | 首頁 |
| Scene 15: (On the way home) her heart and mind argue (at having to leave her husband) 心意相尤 |
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From 18 Songs of a Nomad Flute, here illustrating the qin melody
Da Hujia (Nomad Reed Pipe, Long Version)
Scroll painting and calligraphy by Bai Yunli based on a Song dynasty original;
poem by
Liu Shang
translated by Robert Rorex and Wen Fong
I sigh that my feelings are undefined:
I was grieved then by coming away, and now I hate returning;
I no longer understand such emotions of worry and sorrow,
And I feel only a sharp knife stabbing at my heart.
Sorrow mixed with joy is not a happy feeling.
My thoughts are at cross-purposes. I keep asking myself this:
Unless it was fate that preordained such a marriage,
How could I have become bound to my enemy in love and trust?
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