Red flags flutter, adorning these passes and peaks, a magnificent sight.
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From Mao Zedong's (毛泽东) 《菩萨蛮·大柏地》 (1933): 当年鏖战急，弹洞前村壁。装点此关山，今朝更好看。 (Fierce battles once raged here; bullet-holes pockmark the village walls. Adorning these passes and peaks, today they look even finer.) Written revisiting a Red Army battlefield in Jiangxi, turning bullet-scars into a kind of beauty.
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关山 is a classical compound meaning 'mountain passes and peaks,' by extension 'frontier / homeland terrain.' Ironic or heroic tone depending on context, Mao's original is defiantly aesthetic about war damage.
