Music splashes down like starry dewdrops
Making the virgin forest pause in its windy dance
So send out this manly vibration
Across the curvy waist of a highland lake
Under the moon begin to tie
New bonds of love and beauty
2
His crabbed and wrinkled hands
Are a highland river in December
Flowing with earth-toned resonance
Flowing with excited and dejected moods
As he takes his time snipping
The warm-hued golden bronze
3
Through his hands a fish of freedom swims
With fins that undulate in tones of bronze
And the fish with its metallic scales crashes
Against high shoals he causes to appear
Setting loose many lovely dragonflies
To fly about in this story-like world
4
Glinting wings of dragonflies will thrum
Sounding up to the sunny vault of sky
Sounding over the land抯 mountain peaks
Sounding over a man抯 forehead
Sounding over a woman抯 lips
Sounding over a child抯 earring
Glinting wings of a dragonfly will thrum
Sounding in the east
Sounding in the west
Sounding in the ears of the yellow race
Sounding in the ears of the black race
Sounding in the ears of the white race
Sounding upstream on the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers
Sounding downstream on the Mississippi
These are sounds of the Nuosu from antiquity
These are sounds of from within the Nuosu soul
5
When the moon rises from behind a great mountain
Like a boulder love stands upon the ridgeline