Pusaman: Dabaidi is a ci poem Mao Zedong wrote in 1933.
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culture
The poem opens with 赤橙黄绿青蓝紫, the colors of a rainbow after summer rain over the old battlefield, and goes on to the bullet holes still in the village walls. Its first line is how many Chinese remember the order of the rainbow's seven colors.
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柏 is bǎi here, the reading of 柏树 "cypress". The bó reading is for transliterations such as 柏林 (Berlin).
