满江红, or River of Crimson by the Chinese artist Héhóngzhōu 何红舟. The composition is horizontally arranged and has Yue Fei framed by the elements on his sides.



















MAN JIANG HONG 满江红

怒发冲冠，凭栏处，潇潇雨歇。

My wrath bristles through my helmet, the rain stops as I stand by the rail;





抬望眼，仰天长啸，壮怀激烈。

I look up towards the sky and let loose a passionate roar.







三十功名尘与土，八千里路云和月。

At the age of thirty, my deeds are nothing but dust, my journey has taken me over eight thousand li





莫等闲白了少年头，空悲切。

So do not sit by idly, for young men will grow old in regret.









靖康耻，犹未雪；

The Humiliation of Jingkang still lingers,





臣子恨，何时灭？

When will the pain of the Emperor’s subjects ever end?









驾长车踏破贺兰山缺！

Let us ride our chariots through the Helan Pass,





壮志饥餐胡虏肉，笑谈渴饮匈奴血。

There we shall feast on barbarian flesh and drink the blood of the Xiongnu.





待从头收拾旧山河，朝天阙。

Let us begin anew to recover our old empire, before paying tribute to the Emperor.











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满江红 (lit. River full of crimson, or the River all in red) is one of the most famous poems traditionally attributed to the patriotic Song dynasty general Yue Fei. When the imperial capital of Song was taken and sacked, its Emperor was shamefully abducted, its old heartland conquered by the Jurchens, General Yue Fei took up arms and waged a stubborn war of resistance and reclamation against the barbarians. This poem invoke the spirit of patriotic native resistance from the Song citizenry against the invaders and attempts to inspire them to retake the old homelands.The common belief is that Yue Fei wrote the poem in 1133 at the age of 30 at the height of the Jin–Song Wars. However the poem was not included in the collected works of Yue Fei compiled by Yue's grandson, Yue Ke 岳柯, and neither was it mentioned in any major works written before the Ming dynasty. More likely it was written during the later Ming dynasty by a patriotic later poet and was re-attributed to Yue Fei, a common literary device in the medieval world. Regardless, Man Jiang Hong is one of the most recognized poems in all of the Chinese communities across the world.