Huan Zhu Ge Ge II – Episode 6

Episode 6 – Get it here!

In this episode, Zi Wei teaches Xiao Yan Zi a couple of famous love poems.

The first one, about clay figures, is pretty cute and simple. The second employs a homophone of “si” (silk is a homophone for longing), which Xiao Yan Zi cleverly distorts in her own way to say they’re dead no matter what. “Death” is third tone though, while silk and longing are both first tone.

Unfortunately when we did Huan Zhu Ge Ge Part I, Gem the other project coordinator, tackled most of the poetic phrasing. She definitely had a more poetic way with her words to capture the spirit of the poem, and in few enough English words to fit on a subtitle. We spent a lot of nights (days for her, I guess) on opposite ends of the world hammering out some of the toughest ones. I did my best alone, and hopefully I get the meaning across enough.