Xin Haonian: Song of the Hua-Han Revolution

Han-Chinese Revolution Song

Xin Haonian

Han family high towers fell into the primordial wilderness, seventy-four years ago the mainland perished.1 Marxist-Leninists cross their spears and blood flows across, hundreds of millions of Han children's souls are unreconciled. The Xiongnu's knives and axes are new in blood, the Hu barbarians still display foolish stubbornness. The whole court is a miasma of bloody clouds and Red Russian seeds, everywhere wolf-dogs are cruel, venomous, and greedy. Rivers and mountains are already cheap and the people even cheaper, home and country already ruined and hearts even more ruined:

Pitiable the heart of the abandoned woman overseas, with both love and hate she yearns for Kang and Liang. Her love is in the rivers and lakes with much lingering sorrow, her hate is in the revolution where the sparks ignite; Bidding farewell to revolution she expresses a loyal gut, framing the Xinhai Revolution with a shameless intent; Opposing the revolution with hurried breath and voice, crying out a thousand times for Zeng Guofan.2 Helpless that Jiang Lang, Hu Ge, and Xi Er have hearts like iron, after weeping for Yaobang she weeps for Ziyang... The hundred-year reform tune of the Divine Land, contemporary sons and daughters are unable to pluck.

In the past my Sun Wen opened the republic, launching the revolution and rising in Nanyang. Canton brave men did not fear death, when the social atmosphere was not yet open there was much hardship.3 Everyone only said Kang and Liang were good, Kang and Liang's whole mind was on protecting the emperor: Fearing the revolution would drive out the Manchu barbarians, flattering the Guangxu Emperor as peerless in the world; Falsely accusing the revolution of throwing the world into chaos, yet the world in great chaos still rushed to勤王 (protect the king)!4 The day protecting the king dyed the Yangtze River in blood, the dream of returning to court accompanied Kang and Liang.

Kang and Liang only sought to wear the peacock feather, day and night thinking only of the court hall; Kang and Liang only loved the Great Qing State, caring not that the Han people fell into fire and boiling broth; Kang and Liang only feared the Great Qing would die, hating the revolution to the point of a crazed spirit; The Manchu imperial court ultimately would not change, Kang and Liang's lifelong ambitions were not unfolded; It was fated that the Manchu barbarians' destiny should end, after weeping for the abdicated emperor she weeps for reform.4

The republic henceforth opened a new atmosphere, the revolution serves as our heroes' guts: Refusing Russia turned into a patriotic tide,6 anti-Japan stirred up anti-Manchu waves;7 Drive out the Tartars and raise the Han banner, overthrow despotism as the revolutionary program. Pingshan early on broke away from Kang and Liang, shouting for revolution to add daring generals;8 Tianhua leaped into the sea to make clear his grand ambition, waking up the four hundred million Manchu slaves!9 Zou Rong went to prison without changing his ambition, the flag of the "Revolutionary Army" rolled over the Great Han;10 Xilin was loyal to the Han and not to the thief, digging out the heart and liver before the patrol office;11 Wu Yue firmly cherished Jing Ke's ambition, his flesh and bones rotting on the carriage heading abroad...12

Han family sons and daughters' guts and intestines stirred, the revolutionary spring tide sounded late: Nationalism and people's rights moved their heartstrings, European students followed Sun Zhongshan; Revolution ultimately for the people's livelihood is good, the Tongmenghui gathered for righteousness in the East;13 Restore China and the Han to build the Republic, inside and outside the seas working with one heart! Anqing's New Army shed their heads, Canton's spring blood fertilized Huanghuagang;14 Wuchang city's gunfire rose, above the Yellow Crane Tower the Han army was high-spirited! The Manchu imperial court wept because of us, millennium-old dynastic rule perished by our hands, Asian republic was opened by ourselves, the Republic's blue sky was a single expanse of blue!

The blue sky at times had dark clouds disturbing, on the road of the republic there were many difficult passes; European royal power saw much restoration, democracy was repeatedly injured by despotism. Only we Chinese advocated protecting the country, opposing Yuan's victory and then opposing Zhang;15 Even more the Whampoa could sweep across, the Northern Expedition united and the warlords perished. From then on the Republic moved toward the republic, people's rights and people's livelihood stepping forward step by step.

Only hating that Red Russia's ambition was blazing, forcefully exporting the Marxist-Leninist utopia. A sudden wind arose in the Peach Blossom Spring, fickle youths dreamed of a golden millet dream; Originally surnamed Huaxia and not Rong, changing to the Marx-Lenin sect and despising Xia and Shang; Archenemies and great foes entirely disregarded, willingly acting as slaves to the new czar;16 Thus came the Comintern's strict commands, communism forcing the republic to perish.17

Adding further the Japanese invaders stirring up trouble, the yellow-skinned Russian thieves joyful to the point of madness; Openly repairing the gallery road while shouting resistance to Japan, secretly crossing Chencang to plot expansion; Taihang Mountain high harboring fierce bandits,18 poppy flower fragrance hiding murderous intent.19 Foreign invaders and domestic thieves colluded with each other, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms together annihilating Chiang.20

Pitiable the Republic's soldiers and officers were loyal, upper and lower with one heart rushing to the national crisis; Praiseworthy the Republic's soldiers and officers were brave, blood flowing without measure fighting on the battlefields; Pitiable the Republic's soldiers and officers suffered, victory in the War of Resistance making it hard to return home: Defeating the Japanese invaders to welcome the Red invaders, the smoke of civil war without end in sight. The earth collapsed and mountains urged the Republic's fall, the republic was forced to surrender to communism...

The Xiongnu's peach blossoms bloomed flirtatiously, Huaxia's sons and daughters' blood was a vast ocean; The ghost of Marxism covered the Divine Land, the Han family's mountains and rivers completely stank... Until the country was empty and the people extinct and the chieftain Mao died, Only then did Xiaoping save the party and helplessly call for reform!

Xiaoping's reform dreams continued one after another, the Westernization Movement reopened for business;21 Xiaoping's reform dreams fluttered, "Empress Deng" dropping the curtain to call for long-term peace;22 Xiaoping's reform firmly would not change, the Red Party never leaves the court hall! Nationalism and people's rights entirely ignored, people's livelihood only busy for the party's enjoyment. The black-haired masses of one billion awoke from their dream, kneeling eight or nine times demanding reform. Hateful Xiaoping's iron-and-blood nature, returning tanks and machine guns.23 Detestable Red bandits with ferocious appearances, the Red Party reforming to save the Red Party!

Jiang Lang received the mandate in times of danger, ruling through corruption and playing with things in his palm. Crown prince Hu Er finally leaped on a horse, burning incense abruptly in the Marxist temple.24 Now Shuang Yu is self-appointed emperor, wildly praising the "Marxist scriptures" and worshipping Mao's hall. The Han family genealogy burned and copied to extinction,25 clan records only smeared with "Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Deng, Jiang....." Pitiable the thirteen billion Marxist-Leninist descendants, How could they compare to the four hundred million awakened Han-Chinese sons and daughters of the late Qing?!

Han-Chinese sons and daughters wept with the same fervor, if Marxism-Leninism is not eliminated the race will not prosper; Han-Chinese sons and daughters sing with the same hatred, return our republic and eliminate communism; Han-Chinese sons and daughters' tears dried together, from now on bidding farewell to Marxism-Leninism, despotism, and reform! A hundred years of singing finished, heroic feelings released, Vowing to be good sons and daughters who complete the Han-Chinese republican revolution!

(Composed overseas in 2005 on the 94th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution, slightly revised in the winter of 2024)

Notes:

1. In the early 1930s, Chiang Kai-shek once publicly referred to "communist revolution as a flood and fierce beasts, once successful, it will plunge China into a state of irrecoverable doom."
2. After 1989, Li Zehou, a former Chinese Communist Marxist aesthetician who fled overseas, was the earliest to publish a "Bidding Farewell to Revolution" essay, taking the lead in attacking Sun Zhongshan and the Xinhai Revolution. Afterward, someone within the system named Li Jie publicly published an article titled "Bidding Farewell to Sun Yat-sen, Returning to Zeng Guofan," praising Kang and Liang's monarchism and criticizing the Xinhai Revolution. This formed a stubborn trend of "protect-the-party reform," which not only swayed overseas public opinion but also obstructed the due awakening of overseas revolutionary consciousness, and for a long time even became the mainstream ideological trend of the overseas democratic movement.
3. In 1895, Sun Zhongshan had already established the Revive China Society and launched the first armed uprising in Guangzhou, which failed. Lu Haodong and other republican revolutionary martyrs heroically sacrificed their lives. At that time, because the revolutionary atmosphere had not yet opened, most people did not understand it, and even regarded Sun Zhongshan and others as major bandits. It was not until the Huizhou Uprising in 1900, and especially the failure of Kang and Liang's armed reform movement, that the revolutionary tide began to rise.
4. One of the master tricks used by Kang Youwei's monarchist party to attack the revolution was to attack that "revolution will bring great chaos to the world." However, Kang Youwei himself completely disregarded the world falling into chaos, and plotted an "armed reform" involving seven provinces along the Yangtze River—that is, armed protection of the king to save the Guangxu Emperor—creating a situation where blood flowed like a river. Its scale was larger than any revolutionary uprising led and launched by Sun Zhongshan, and many deceived anti-Qing revolutionary martyrs and anti-Qing secret society members, including reformists, sacrificed their lives for it. Kang and Liang's monarchist faction never recovered because of this, and many youths who originally intended reform also bid farewell to Kang and Liang's monarchist reform movement from then on, throwing themselves into the torrent of Sun Zhongshan's republican revolution. Still others expressed their determination to break with the pro-Qing reform faction through the heroic act of sacrificing their own lives, such as Xu Xilin and Wu Yue.
5. In April 1911, the reformists tearfully jointly published an open letter to the whole country, declaring that their "hope was completely dashed" regarding the Qing government's reforms, and thus turned toward the revolution. The abdicated emperor refers to the Guangxu Emperor.
6. On April 29, 1903 (the 3rd day of the 4th month of the lunar calendar), because the Manchu Qing signed seven secret treaties with Tsarist Russia selling out Manchuria's sovereignty, more than 500 Chinese students in Japan held a grand rally in Tokyo against Russia, denouncing Tsarist Russia's occupation of Manchuria. Afterward, they organized the Anti-Russia Volunteer Corps (also known as the Student Army), with Huang Xing, Chen Tianhua, and more than 200 others joining automatically, preparing to go to Manchuria to resist Russia. However, the Manchu Qing government actually claimed that this movement, named anti-Russia, was actually a revolution, and telegraphed the Qing minister to Japan to coordinate with the Japanese government to ruthlessly suppress it. The Anti-Russia Volunteer Corps was forcibly disbanded and then renamed the National Military Education Association.
7. At the beginning of 1903, Chinese students in Japan had already begun to awaken to anti-Manchu revolutionary consciousness. On February 20, the Japanese prepared to set up a "Human Pavilion" within the Osaka Exhibition, claiming they would hire "Taiwanese savages" to "perform their inherent characteristics, the degree and class of their livelihood, and their evil customs and barbarian habits inside the pavilion for exhibition," triggering resolute protests from Chinese students in Japan. On April 26, Japan's Seijo School held its spring sports meeting, and the venue displayed the flags of various countries, remarkably missing only the Chinese flag, and declared: "All independent countries in the world can fly flags here. China has already fallen to the status of a protectorate of various countries, how can it fly a flag and be equal to various countries?" Three hundred Chinese students gathered to protest, and after the Japanese were forced to hang the Chinese flag, not a single one of them attended the meeting. However, the anti-Japanese patriotic movement of Chinese students faced oppression by the Qing court. Later, with the rise of the anti-Russia movement and the scramble between Japan and Russia for Chinese territory, culminating in the Russo-Japanese War fought on Chinese soil, the successively occurring anti-Japanese and anti-Russia movements eventually converged into the republican revolution led by Sun Zhongshan.
8. Qin Lishan was originally a young reformist activist who once participated in leading Kang Youwei's armed protection of the king. He led an army in Datong, Anhui, in a fierce battle with Qing troops for seven days and seven nights. After failing, he narrowly escaped overseas, going to Singapore to find Kang Youwei. However, he discovered that Kang Youwei, who had delayed remitting funds to the domestic king-protecting army and thus caused the king-protecting uprisings everywhere to fail, was actually hoarding funds overseas to enrich himself and living a life of debauchery. He immediately broke with Kang Youwei on the spot, and upon returning to Japan founded the first public newspaper calling for anti--Manchu revolution, "Guomin Bao" (National Journal), creating a huge revolutionary impact among students.
9. In 1903, Chinese student in Japan Chen Tianhua published books such as "Look Back in Sudden Horror" and "Warning Bell," advocating the overthrow of the Qing government, the "court of the foreigners," and the establishment of a democratic republic, which had a huge impact. In 1905, to protest Japan's collusion with the Manchu Qing government, and its discrimination and restriction of the anti-Manchu patriotic movement of Chinese students in Japan, he threw himself into the sea at Omori Bay, Japan, on December 8. With the heroic self-sacrifice spirit of a brave man's single leap, he called on his compatriots to rise up in revolution to overthrow the Manchu-foreign autocratic court, playing a huge role in inspiring compatriots to participate in the republican revolution.
10. The young Zou Rong was the author of "The Revolutionary Army," and made great contributions to stirring up the trend of the anti-Manchu republican revolution. He was wanted by the Qing court because of the "Su Bao" (Jiangsu-Zhejiang Daily) case, and later voluntarily surrendered to prison, his ambition unchanged, dying of illness in prison.
11. Xu Xilin was originally a young reformist activist, but later because...

Witnessing that the Qing government was actually engaging in fake reforms while being truly corrupt, he turned to revolution and assassinated a member of the imperial clan, Anhui Governor Enming, to demonstrate his determination to "break completely with pro-Qing reformism and support the republican revolution." He killed Enming with his own hands and, after being arrested, refused to repent. The Qing court ordered that his heart and liver be cut out in front of the Anhui Governor's Yamen in Anqing, and he became a martyr for his lofty ideals. 12. Qiu Jin was also originally a young reformist intellectual, but later resolved to abandon reform and join the revolution, plotting to assassinate the five Qing ministers who were sent to investigate foreign countries. He sacrificed his life heroically, causing a sensation at home and abroad. His deeply touching actions became a model for young people aspiring to revolution. For details, see the article "The Hero Who Abandoned Reform and Dedicated Himself to the Revolution - Qiu Jin" published in this issue of our magazine. 13. In the spring of 1905, Sun Yat-sen traveled from the United States to Europe, where he first explained his already matured Three Principles of the People to Chinese students in Belgium, France, and Germany. More than fifty European students formed an alliance with Sun Yat-sen, making the necessary ideological and organizational preparations for the founding of the Chinese Revolutionary Alliance (Tongmenghui) in Tokyo a few months later (August 1905). 14. In 1908, Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor died successively. The Anqing New Army, which had already established a secret Tongmenghui organization, launched an uprising. More than two hundred revolutionary martyrs sacrificed their lives. Although the endeavor failed, it shook people at home and abroad. This was the first revolutionary uprising launched by young military personnel and is considered to have powerfully shaken the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Guangzhou's spring blood enriching Huanghuagang refers to the globally shocking Huanghuagang Uprising. 15. The newly established republic launching the National Protection Movement belongs to a common phenomenon in the history of modern Europe moving toward a republic. However, the formal concepts of "defending the republic and defending the constitution" for the republic were pioneered by Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese people. Opposing Yuan [Shikai] and opposing Zhang [Xun] refers to the Chinese people opposing Yuan Shikai's restoration of the monarchy and opposing Zhang Xun's restoration of the Qing Dynasty in order to defend the republic. Afterwards, the Chinese people opposed the Beiyang warlords under the national title and legal system of the Republic of China using "the name of the republic to practice autocracy," which was the defense of the constitution. Chiang Kai-shek led the Chinese National Revolutionary Army in the Northern Expedition to overthrow the warlords, rebuild the Nanjing government, and unify the Republic of China, which was the victory of defending the constitution. 16. After the Opium War of 1840, Tsarist Russia harmed our people most viciously and seized our territory most extensively, once becoming our "sworn mortal enemy" (in the words of Chiang Kai-shek). Its successor, the former Soviet Union, inherited the mantle of the old tsar, yet under the banner of communist revolution, launched a communist revolution in China, established, fostered, and directed the Chinese Communist Party, subverted our republican Greater China, and plunged our China into an irretrievable and tragic plight from which it has yet to be saved. 17. Following the establishment of the CCP by the CPSU, all its acts of rebellion, treason, and betrayal of the nation were directed personally by the CPSU under the pretext of the orders of the Communist International. Refer to the book "Who is the New China?" and the many major introspective achievements of mainland people over the past twenty years. 18. That the CCP military did not fight the Japanese during the War of Resistance, pretended to resist Japan, engaged in guerrilla tactics without fighting, and specialized in attacking the Kuomintang's anti-Japanese army has been proven by historical facts. Mao Zedong even declared internally that whether they fought Chiang Kai-shek in the past or would fight Chiang Kai-shek in the future, they must all fight a war of movement, but currently fighting the Japanese they could not fight a war of movement, yet they hid in the mountains and actively practiced the war of movement. All these actions were intended to prepare for launching a civil war to seize the realm in the days to come. Please refer to Volume III of Selected Works of Mao Zedong. 19. One of the historical lies of the CCP is that it developed the Great Production Movement during the War of Resistance in order to persist in resisting Japan. However, the result of the reflection of the people of mainland China is that the Communist Party's Great Production Movement was a means of growing opium and selling opium to prepare for civil war to seize the country. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CCP even established a dedicated Opium Production Committee. Politburo member Deng Fa once told Peter Vladimirov, the special correspondent of the Comintern and the CPSU Central Committee's newspaper Pravda stationed in Yan'an, right in front of Mao Zedong: "Now we are using the money gained from selling opium to buy weapons to beat the Kuomintang!" And the famous Nanniwan was an opium production base. The revolutionary song known as "The flowers in the basket are fragrant" actually sings about "The opium in the basket is fragrant." The Eighth Route Army's 359 Brigade was an opium brigade, and brigade commander Wang Zhen should be called the "Opium General." Currently, it has been further confirmed that mainland Chinese scholar Professor Zhang Yuejing has personally traveled to northern Shaanxi and found that "Comrade Zhang Side," referred to by Mao Zedong in his article "Serve the People," did not die from burning charcoal after all, but died from "refining opium." Please refer to the Yan'an Diary (Vladimirov) which has been published twice successively in the mainland.