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Shang Ye

Shang Ye (By Heaven!, ) is an ancient Chinese folk song about love, whose author is no longer known. The Collection of Music Bureau Poems (樂府詩集) version has a total of 9 lines and 33 characters.

Content

The poem list six "impossible things", only if all of them were to happen would the speaker be willing to break with the lover.

In popular culture

It appears as a line in the television drama adapted from My Fair Princess, shortened to “When the mountains lose their ridges and heaven and earth unite, only then would I dare part from you.”

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