Shang Ye
Ancient Chinese poem
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Shang Ye (By Heaven!, Chinese: 上邪) is an ancient Chinese folk song about love, whose author is no longer known. The Collection of Music Bureau Poems (樂府詩集) version has a total of 9 lines and 33 characters.
| Shang Ye | |
|---|---|
| by Anonymous | |
| Original title | 上邪 |
| Written | Generally attributed to the Han to Six Dynasties period |
| First published in | Anonymous |
| Country | China |
| Language | Classical Chinese |
| Series | Yuefu of Han |
| Subject(s) | Love, oath, fidelity |
| Genre(s) | Yuefu poetry, classical Chinese poetry |
| Meter | Irregular; mixed four-, five-, and six-character lines |
| Lines | 9 |
 上邪 at Chinese Wikisource | |
Content
The poem list six "impossible things", only if all of them were to happen would the speaker be willing to break with the lover.
| 中文原文 | English translation |
|---|---|
上邪 |
By Heaven! |
In popular culture
It appears as a line in the television drama adapted from My Fair Princess, shortened to “When the mountains lose their ridges and heaven and earth unite, only then would I dare part from you.”[1]
Note
- In northern China, there is rarely thunder or rain in winter.