How bright and brave they look, shouldering five-foot rifles
On the parade ground lit up by the first gleams of day.
China's daughters have high-aspiring minds,
They love their battle array, not silks and satins.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
a pleasant war-loving society then? women betrayed into behaving like men? interesting point of view
Not so now, but decades ago, women were encouraged to behave like men and have to do manual labor also, according to my parents and grandma... The translation is very crude...