Listen to this article北京一夜 (Běijīng yī yè) [One night in Beijing]
不想再问你 你到底在何方
不想再思量 你能否归来呖
想着你的心 想着你的脸
想捧在胸口 能不放就不放ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
我留下许多情
不管你爱与不爱
都是历史的尘埃
ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
我留下许多情
不敢在午夜问路
怕走到了百花深处人说百花地深处
住着老情人 缝着绣花鞋
面容安详的老人
依旧等着那出征的归人ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
你可别喝太多酒
不管你爱与不爱
都是历史的尘埃
ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
我留下许多情
把酒对月高歌的男儿
是北方的狼族人说北方的狼族
会在寒风起 站在城门外
穿着腐蚀的铁衣
呼唤城门外 眼中含着泪呜……我已等待了几千年
为何城门还不开
呜……我已等待了几千年
为何良人不回来ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
我留下许多情
不敢在午夜问路
怕触动了伤心的魂
ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
我留下许多情
不敢在午夜问路
怕走到了地安门人说地安门里面
有位老妇人 犹在痴痴等
面容安详的老人
依旧等着那出征的归人ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
你可别喝太多酒
走在地安门外
没有人不动真情
ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
你会流下许多情
不要在午夜问路
怕触动了伤心的魂（人）
English #1 – One night in Beijing
Don’t want to ask you where you really are
Don’t want to think about whether you can come back
Thinking about your heart, thinking about your face
I want to hold it on my chest and not let it go if I canONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
I left a lot of love
Whether you love or not
It is the dust* of history
ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
I left a lot of love
I dare not ask the way at midnight
Afraid to walk to the deepest part of the hundred flowersPeople say that deep in the land of a hundred flowers
There lives an old lover who sews embroidered shoes
The old man with a peaceful face,
still waiting for the lover who will eventually return from the expeditionONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
You do not drink too much wine
Whether you love or not
It is the dust of history
ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
Whether you love or not
The man who sings with wine
is a warrior of the north**People say that the warriors of the north
When the wind is cold, they stand outside the city gate
Wearing corroded iron armor
Calling for the gates to open, with tears in their eyesAww …… I have been waiting for thousands of years
Why are the gates still open?
Ohhhhh……I have been waiting for thousands of years
Why doesn’t my lover come back?ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
I left a lot of love
I dare not ask for directions in the middle of the night
Afraid of disturbing the soul of a broken heart
ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
I left a lot of love
Do not ask for directions in the middle of the night
Afraid to walk to DianmenThey say that in the gates of Dianmen***
There is an old woman who is still waiting
The old man with a peaceful face,
still waiting for the lover who will eventually return from the expeditionONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
You do not drink too much wine
There is no one who is not moved by true feelings
when walking outside Dianmen
ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
You will leave a lot of love
Do not ask for directions in the middle of the night
Afraid of disturbing the soul of a broken heartDon’t want to ask you where you really are
Don’t want to think about whether you can come back
Thinking about your heart, thinking about your face
I want to hold it on my chest and not let it go if I canONE NIGHT IN BEIJING
You left a lot of love
Don’t ask for directions in the middle of the night
He is afraid to disturb the soul of a broken heartI don’t want to ask you where you really are
I don’t want you to think about whether you can come back (ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING)
Thinking about your heart, thinking about your face63
I want to hold him to my chest and not let him go if I can
Submitted by Barbarossa Davide
Author’s comments:
*In fact, “dust” refers to the “historical record”
**The word “狼族” in Chinese originally refers to the nomadic people of the north, but in this case it refers to warriors on the march
***Dianmen:https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/%E5%9C%B0%E5%AE%89%E9%96%80
这是一首根据北京旧皇城北门——地安门的传说故事改编的歌曲：相传一位居住在地安门的女子，其丈夫被政府强征去远方同蛮族开战。丈夫不幸牺牲后，化作鬼魂回到了地安门外，想要回去与自己的妻子重逢，但是人鬼殊途，丈夫的鬼魂不能进入城中，只好整天整夜徘徊在地安门外，而女子则只能一辈子在家中等待着丈夫归来，手中握着为丈夫纳的新鞋，带着安详的笑容，最后老死在家中，等不到丈夫的回来。
这首歌的特点是将流行歌曲与中国传统戏曲——京剧做了很好的结合，女性在歌中使用的是京剧的唱腔，使歌曲既有历史感，又有时尚性。
This is a song based on the legendary story of Di’anmen, the northern gate of the old imperial city of Beijing: According to legend, a woman who lived in Di’anmen had her husband forcibly conscripted by the government to go to a distant land to fight a war with the barbarians. After her husband died, he returned to the Di’anmen as a ghost and wanted to reunite with his wife, but the ghost of her husband could not enter the city, so he wandered outside the Di’anmen all day and night, while the woman could only wait for her husband’s return at home for the rest of her life, holding the new shoes she made for him with a peaceful smile, and finally died at home, unable to wait for his return.
The song features a good combination of a pop song and a traditional Chinese opera, Peking Opera, in which the woman uses the singing voice of Peking Opera, making the song both historical and fashionable.
