Ch 66

Chapter 66

The Enraged General

Translator’s Notes:

1. “The Enraged General” – this chapter’s title demands an explanation – actually, it’s 冲冠一怒, lit. ‘in great fury with hair standing on end.’ This phrase comes from a poem Song of Yuanyuan by Wu Weiye (here’s Wiki page with an excerpt, here you have a complete poem, by a different translator). More complete and poetic version:

One wave of headgear-lifting anger propelled him, all for the sake of the fair-faced one

or

The General was so angry that his hair uplifted his hat

Simply for a beautiful concubine

Shi Jin paraphrases it in the latter part of the chapter.

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