不负人间 – Bilingual Lyrics Chinese/English

• By: 阿YueYue
• Album: 不负人间

Lyrics & Translation

Embark on a linguistic and cultural journey with 阿YueYue's enchanting song "不负人间." Its poetic lyrics, rich with traditional Chinese imagery and philosophical undertones, offer a beautiful window into the language. By delving into the verses, you can learn common expressions related to self-reflection, nature, and the human condition, making it an excellent piece for learners to appreciate the depth and beauty of Mandarin Chinese through music.

[English]

You broke through the thin ice of the Beginning of Spring, layer by layer

Even a knife dancing wildly can't sever delusion and hatred

The night wind brushes past the pear blossoms, teasing passersby

Who can enter the mortal world without leaving a trace?

I’ve climbed three thousand steps, my heart pure and sincere

I’ve prayed to the Bodhisattva, incense burning, tending only to myself

Don’t ask, don’t divide, don’t redraw yin and yang—just illuminate the universe

I’m only fit to drink and recite poetry

I’m an ordinary person who’s fallen into the depths of the mortal world

Holding a lone lamp to illuminate my six pure senses

Don’t come near, don’t recognize, don’t mistake me for one tainted by worldly dust

...

An elderly man with white hair lives in peaceful seclusion in the mountains

Layered peaks and misty rain wash away the dust of the world

Detached from it all, pure and unconcerned, hearing nothing, asking nothing

No one needs to take these empty words as truth

I’ve climbed three thousand steps, my heart pure and sincere

I’ve prayed to the Bodhisattva, incense burning, tending only to myself

Don’t ask, don’t divide, don’t redraw yin and yang—just illuminate the universe

I’m only fit to drink and recite poetry

I’m an ordinary person who’s fallen into the depths of the mortal world

Holding a lone lamp to illuminate my six pure senses

Don’t come near, don’t recognize, don’t mistake me for one tainted by worldly dust

I’ve climbed three thousand steps, my heart pure and sincere

I’ve prayed to the Bodhisattva, incense burning, tending only to myself

Don’t ask, don’t divide, don’t redraw yin and yang—just illuminate the universe

I’m only fit to drink and recite poetry

I’m an ordinary person who’s fallen into the depths of the mortal world

Holding a lone lamp to illuminate my six pure senses

Don’t come near, don’t recognize, don’t mistake me for one tainted by worldly dust

...

[Chinese]

立春的薄冰被你破了幾層

磨刀亂舞也難斷痴嗔

夜風繞過梨花 撩路人

入凡世誰能無痕

我爬過 三千台階的一片 心虔誠

拜過了 菩薩焚香 獨善其身

莫問 莫分 莫再描陰陽 照乾坤

我只配醉酒念詩文

我墜入萬丈紅塵的一個平凡人

執一盞孤燈照亮清淨六根

莫近 莫認 莫再記錯我不染浮沉

白髮的老者隱居安逸山林

層巒疊嶂細雨洗風塵

置身事外的清淨 不聞不問

誰也不用把這妄語 當真

我爬過 三千台階的一片 心虔誠

拜過了 菩薩焚香 獨善其身

莫問 莫分 莫再描陰陽 照乾坤

我只配醉酒念詩文

我墜入萬丈紅塵的一個平凡人

執一盞孤燈照亮清淨六根

莫近 莫認 莫再記錯我不染浮沉

我爬過 三千台階的一片 心虔誠

拜過了 菩薩焚香 獨善其身

莫問 莫分 莫再描陰陽 照乾坤

我只配醉酒念詩文

我墜入萬丈紅塵的一個平凡人

執一盞孤燈照亮清淨六根

莫近 莫認 莫再記錯我不染浮沉

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
破 /pò/ B1	verb - to break, to destroy, to defeat
痴嗔 /chī chēn/ C1	noun - foolish infatuation, silly anger
夜風 /yè fēng/ A2	noun - night wind
入凡世 /rù fán shì/ C1	verb - to enter the mortal world
台階 /tái jiē/ B1	noun - stairs, steps
虔誠 /qián chéng/ C1	adjective - pious, sincere, devout
焚香 /fén xiāng/ B2	verb - to burn incense
描 /miáo/ B2	verb - to depict, to portray, to describe
乾坤 /qián kūn/ C2	noun - heaven and earth, the universe
紅塵 /hóng chén/ C1	noun - the mortal world, the dust of life
平凡 /píng fán/ B1	adjective - ordinary, common, plain
清淨 /qīng jìng/ B2	adjective - pure, clean, serene
山林 /shān lín/ A2	noun - mountains and forests
疊嶂 /dié zhàng/ C2	noun - overlapping peaks
妄語 /wàng yǔ/ C2	noun - falsehood, untrue words
獨善 /dú shàn/ C1	verb - to be virtuous alone, to practice virtue for oneself
認 /rèn/ B1	verb - to recognize, to admit
染 /rǎn/ B2	verb - to dye, to stain, to be affected by

Key Grammar Structures

• 立春的薄冰被你破了幾層

  ➔ Passive voice with '被'

  ➔ The phrase uses the passive voice with '被' to indicate that the thin ice of spring has been broken by you.

• 我爬過三千台階的一片心虔誠

  ➔ Past experience with '過'

  ➔ '過' indicates a past experience where the subject 'I' climbed over three thousand steps.

• 入凡世誰能無痕

  ➔ Interrogative structure

  ➔ This line uses a question structure to ponder about the impossibility of entering the mortal world without leaving marks.

• 執一盞孤燈照亮清淨六根

  ➔ Use of '的一' for description

  ➔ '的一' is used here to describe 'the lonely lamp' further, emphasizing its uniqueness in the context.

• 莫問 莫分 莫再描陰陽 照乾坤

  ➔ Imperative mood

  ➔ The repetitive use of '莫' acts as an imperative, urging not to question, differentiate, or contemplate the dualities of life.

• 我墜入萬丈紅塵的一个平凡人

  ➔ Noun phrase with '的'

  ➔ '的' is used to connect the subject 'I' to the noun phrase 'a common person in the vast world', emphasizing the identification.