IMPERIAL CHINESE SONG Anthem of the Beiyang Fleet (北洋水师军歌) w, ENG lyrics

LYRICS IN THE DESCRIPTION 歌词见视频介绍 北洋水师军歌, Anthem of the Beiyang Fleet. The Beiyang Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, if you don t know, is pretty interesting topic, among Chinese military fans. So basically the story is: China s best modernized navy got completely wrecked by Japan in the humiliating defeat of the First SinoJapanese War. Now there s a lot of sources avaliable on the internet about the War so I m not gonna delve into the details of things. Instead let s talk about this überbizzare song, basically a weird but yet somewhat awesome mashup of qiyan jueju poetry, traditional Chinese opera and Western orchestral march, the perfect symbolism of China in the late19th and 20th centurythe old and the new, surreally coexisting, for a time. Now very little info is available about this because the song basically got lost after the Qing Dynasty was overthrow