The place where the sun cannot reach

Bergli shakes his red beard

He draws a line, the Yellow River runs dry

He draws the second line, the Yangtze River stretches for thousands of miles

Rolling into a woman's pleated skirt

In the face of death, all things are equal

He has read thousands of scriptures, yet he does not speak

The stone threshold is broken, yet he does not speak

Eggshells filled with herbs

The mountain spring flows inside the bamboo pole

People who bathe three times in a lifetime

For the distant place, the first chance to look up

When the empire falls

Not many people will shed tears

The day Bergli walked away, Wumeng Mountain

Mountains full of potatoes and buckwheat, stop growing

All the Miao and Yi people no longer sing

Even those bugs and ants that died many years ago

At the stone threshold, they refuse to be resurrected

At the stone threshold, they give up rebirth

Text by / Arno Ab