Friday, June 28, 2024

Song to the Auspicious Skyscraper

" Hong Kong[e] is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.  

With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities[f] in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated territories in the world. "


91.6% Chinese

2.7% Filipino

1.9% Indonesian

0.8% White

0.6% Indian

0.4% Nepalese

2% other 


Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842 as a consequence of losing 

 the First Opium War." 


Hong Kong was occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II.  

The territory was handed over from the United Kingdom to China in 1997. 

 Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of one country, two systems." 


Home to the seventh-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, 

 Hong Kong has the largest number of ultra high-net-worth individuals

 Although the city has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, severe income inequality exists among the population. "  


Hoong-keang" ("red torrent"), reflecting the colour of soil over which a waterfall on the island flowed. 


Earliest known human traces in what is now Hong Kong are dated by some to 35,000 and 39,000 years ago during the Paleolithic period. The claim is based on an archaeological investigation in Wong Tei Tung, Sai Kung in 2003.  


European demand for Chinese commodities like tea, silk, and porcelain was high, Chinese interest in European manufactured goods was insignificant, 

 so that Chinese goods could only be bought with precious metals.  

To reduce the trade imbalance,  

the British sold large amounts of Indian opium to China.  

Faced with a drug crisis, Qing officials pursued ever more aggressive actions to halt the opium trade." 

 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anthem_of_the_Republic_of_China

In June 2020, the Legislative Council passed the National Anthem Ordinance, which 

 criminalised  


 "insults to the national anthem of China"


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每个Měige人rén被迫着bèipòzhe发出fāchū最后的zuìhòude吼声hǒushēng.。

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我们Wǒmen万众一心wànzhòngyīxīn,,

冒着Màozhe敌人dírén的de炮火pàohuǒ,, 前进qiánjìn!!

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前进Qiánjìn!! 前进Qiánjìn!! 进Jìn!! 


The "March of the Volunteers",[b] originally titled the "March of the Anti-Manchukuo Counter-Japan Volunteers",[c] has been the official national anthem of the People's Republic of China since 1978. 

 Unlike previous Chinese state anthems, it was written entirely in vernacular Chinese, rather than in Classical Chinese. 

Literal :


The Three Principles of the People

The foundation of our party.

Using this, we establish the Republic;

Using this, we advance into a state of total peace.

Oh, you, righteous men,

Of the people, be their vanguards.

Without resting, day or night,

Follow the Principles.

Swear to be diligent; swear to be courageous.

Obliged to be trustworthy; obliged to be loyal.

With one heart and one virtue,

We carry through until the very end. 



Official



San Min Chu-i

Our aim shall be:

To found a free land,

World peace, be our stand.

Lead on, comrades,

Vanguards ye are.

Hold fast your aim,

By sun and star.

Be earnest and brave,

Your country to save,

One heart, one soul,

One mind, one goal. 

 




Our aim shall be: hegemony.


To found a free land, dissolve your wealth like opium in tea 


World peace, be our needle and pipe.


Lead on, comrades, driving tanks over Tibet, crushing Uighurs heart and mind.


Vanguards ye are for Oligarchy and Totalitarian Despotism.


Hold fast your aim, piss. Piss away the Earth.


By sun and star you'll kill poetry.


Be earnest and brave, get a condo.


Your country to save, eat face. Do everything to feed the Party of hate and greed.


One heart, one soul, one fascist goal.


One mind, one goal, one empty Law collecting a bucket of pus and eyelashes dropping from the possibilities of repression and tools of sarcasm. 





It replaced the "Song to the Auspicious Cloud" 



O you wave in the wind 

Giant metal shark 

Your teeth never fall raining on passerby 

Two hundred thousand laborers spent all their tiny lives 

Dragging a sandwich up the crane 

The fingers fell but were replaced 

Earthquake gave up 

Tsunami sleeps in your majestic toilet 

Your spine of finance is eternal 

It plunges thru the soul of earth 

It's golden girders all male

And as infallible as your proboscis in winter 

I quiver at the glory far away 

I skyscraper built to withstand revolution 

Made to sing past oceans ultimate slosh off glacier and icy continent 

The turbo charged jet thrusters

Under your bayonet lobby 

Will flung you past the dead universe 

When money devours man 

You have the best view 

You have the best martini 

You have internet brain and sexy windows 

This new song take it third lunch with uncle Mao 

Go big and hire Justin Bieber to clean the gutters 

O skyscraper telescope find me in your eyeball forever milking the USA 





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