Lost Horizon
Preface
In the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty during the years 110 104 B.C.E. , the emperor made Hsi-chün, daughter of the king of Chiangtu, a princess and married her off to Kunmi, the ruler of the Wusun tribe. When she reached their land, she settled in Kunmi's palace. Through all those years she only met him once or twice, but did not speak to him. The princess became melancholy and composed a song that went like this:
My family married me to a lost horizon,
Sent me far away to the Wusun king's strange land.
A canvas hut is my mansion, of felt its walls,
Flesh for food, mare's milk to drink.
Longing ever for my homeland, my heart's inner wound.
I wish I were the brown goose going to its old home.
In the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty during the years 110 104 B.C.E. , the emperor made Hsi-chün, daughter of the king of Chiangtu, a princess and married her off to Kunmi, the ruler of the Wusun tribe. When she reached their land, she settled in Kunmi's palace. Through all those years she only met him once or twice, but did not speak to him. The princess became melancholy and composed a song that went like this:
My family married me to a lost horizon,
Sent me far away to the Wusun king's strange land.
A canvas hut is my mansion, of felt its walls,
Flesh for food, mare's milk to drink.
Longing ever for my homeland, my heart's inner wound.
I wish I were the brown goose going to its old home.
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