满江红

滿江紅
Mǎnjiānghóng
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 The River All Red, a ci tune pattern
  2. 2 Yue Fei's patriotic ci written to this pattern

Examples

HSK 4
Yuè Fēi de 《 Mǎnjiānghóng 》 shì yì shǒu yǒumíng de àiguó cí.
Yue Fei's 'The River All Red' is a famous patriotic ci.
HSK 4
Qiū Jǐn hé Máo Zédōng yě dōu yòng 《 Mǎnjiānghóng 》 zhège cípái xiě guo cí.
Qiu Jin and Mao Zedong also wrote ci to the Manjianghong pattern.

Tips

culture
The poem by 岳飞 opens 怒发冲冠 'my hair bristles with rage beneath my cap' and holds the lines 三十功名尘与土,八千里路云和月 'thirty years of rank and fame are dust and earth; eight thousand li of road, clouds and moon'. Some scholars doubt that he wrote it, since no copy is known before the Ming, but it is still the best-loved patriotic ci in Chinese.

In Pop Culture

满江红 Mǎnjiānghóng
Full River Red
Zhang Yimou's 2023 mystery film, set four years after Yue Fei's death, whose climax is an army reciting the poem. It topped that year's Spring Festival box office.

Stroke Order

满 mǎn
江 jiāng
红 hóng