All the songs (official and fan made) of Tiān Guān Cì Fú/Heaven Official's Blessing【天官赐福】.
Songs' lyrics with Romanization and English translations.
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A young man with ambitions and a strong temperament Seeking knowledge, how can one fear the bitter poverty? No name on the golden roll of honor(1); trapped in the prison Parents, fiancée and younger sister got killed, dying in vain
Unable to see the clear sun descending in the blue sky Unable to see the tall shining mirror of my house Who heard that the Heavenly Way(2) opened its eyes? Redressing the injustices of my whole He family
Between cold dew of the morning and evening Slaughtering all the tyrannical power Discarding my lowly life Punishing evil and spreading virtue Red blood cold from exhaustion Body died yet soul fights My heart carrying much hatred and resentment Who is willing to disappear in smoke?
Break though and arise from Tonglu mountain Solely holding power over the ghost domain Deep waters devour moving boats Only crossing over to bury my parents' coffin With the desire the Lord to be unlike me Filial peity is hard to complete in life and death Bereaved of parents in this world Heaven and Earth are equally lonely
【Text】 Never dared to deliver my true intentions But I was a young man with foolish eyes
Settling all my life's gratitude and grudges in a day My voice cutting off from the mortal world
The evil one causes upheaval in the world How are mortals and immortals different? Extraordinary fate snatched away and switched Changing life into a feminal one (3) Changing my appearance to a new one Enduring humiliation and hardships Lying about a debt for hundred years One day the turbid waves are turned over
Suddenly both the arms were severed Wide sleeves gushing springs of blood In a flash the skull hangs empty Both eyes still open Could not help myself from an early death After death, fighting against the heavens Kindness and hatred clearly separated Why is it so difficult to be heartless? (4)
The whole family had been happy that day Only remaining are my five bones on altar Seeing each other from time to time Hard to reunite from a long distance Between the vast heaven and earth My body alone in this pathos There has been no one to come afterwards Knowing my real name Xuan
【Text】 At the vermillion gate music and singing starts day and night Hiding the sounds of buried bones before the mountain How can the whole world be this unjust? All the ghosts know hundred sufferings of the human world
TRANSLATOR'S NOTES:
🔹 '辞' (Cí) means to renounce, resign, give up, surrender or dismiss. (1)- List of passing/successful candidates in the national examination (2)- From a Taoist perspective, the Heavenly Way is 'natural law'. It is hence spontaneous, letting everything be what it is, or become what it can be naturally, without interference or influence. (3)- He Xuan's female appearance; referring to Shi QingXuan's affect in his life (4)- This line could also mean 'Why is it difficult to predict one's heart?'; both referring to He Xuan's conflicting feelings towards Shi QingXuan.
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