Genshin Impact Hutao's Song real meaning
Since I have been posting about what her song's lyric really means all over the place, might as well post it in my own channel.he he
So first off, the song has 3 different version, the Genshin impact version, aka The 10 Hillichurl, the modern chinese version, aka The 10 rabbits, and the old, old version, The 10 baldy.
Here's the translation for the Genshin version:
Big Hillichurl is sick , the second Hillichurl stares :
The third Hillichurl picks the herbs while the fourth Hillichurl boils ;
The fifth Hillichurl drops dead, and the sixth Hillichurl carries him away ,
The seventh Hillichurl dug the grave and the 8th Hillichurl buried .
Within the whispering wood, in the little grave
Lies the cold hard corpse of the Hillichurl
No longer does he cries or screams
And the sun has already risen
The ninth Hillichurl howls on the ground , the tenth Hillichurl asked him why
The ninth Hillichurl said, the fifth Hillichurl
Is never coming back
Big Hillichurl is sick , the second Hillichurl stares :
The third Hillichurl picks the herbs while the fourth Hillichurl boils ;
The fifth Hillichurl drops dead, and the sixth Hillichurl carries him away ,
The seventh Hillichurl dug the grave and the 8th Hillichurl buried .
Here is the translation and in depth meaning of the chinese versoin:
Big bunny is sick, the second bunny watches, the third bunny buys the medicine while the fourth bunny cooks, the fifth bunny drops dead and the sixth bunny carries it away, the seventh bunny dug the hole while the eighth bunny buries , the ninth bunny howls on the ground and the tenth bunny asked why. The ninth bunny said, the fifth bunny will never come back !
so , there's 3 things messed up about it, first, every odd phrasse has 5 words, and every even phrase has 4 words, so, it is like 5/4/5/4/5/4/5/4, in chinese it sounds like 我死, or I Die/I Die/I Die,
2nd thing, why is the 5th one dead and not the 1st one ? isn't the first one the sick one ?
3rd thing, the whole song , when stacked , looks like this, a grave.
___大兔子病了___
____二兔子瞧____
___三兔子买药___
____四兔子熬____
___五兔子死了___
____六兔子抬____
___七兔子挖坑___
____八兔子埋____
九兔子坐在地上哭起来
十兔子问他为什么哭
____九兔子说____
五兔子一去不回来
so , there's 3 things messed up about it, first, every odd phrasse has 5 words, and every even phrase has 4 words, so, it is like 5/4/5/4/5/4/5/4, in chinese it sounds like 我死, or I Die/I Die/I Die,
2nd thing, why is the 5th one dead and not the 1st one ? isn't the first one the sick one ?
3rd thing, the whole song , when stacked , looks like this, a grave.
___大兔子病了___
____二兔子瞧____
___三兔子买药___
____四兔子熬____
___五兔子死了___
____六兔子抬____
___七兔子挖坑___
____八兔子埋____
九兔子坐在地上哭起来
十兔子问他为什么哭
____九兔子说____
五兔子一去不回来
to add on on the 2nd point - there's actually a deeper story, since the biggest brother is sick, the 2nd bro will do anything to help him, including murder, the 2nd rabbit, being the "doctor", who stares, ordered the 3rd rabbit to use the 5th one as the medicine , but why the 5th one ? it is due to relationship, the 5th one love the 9th nine, why the ninth one? it is the crying one, the female ,who cries, so out of spite, the 3rd one killed the 5th one so 3rd could have the 9th one. Then there's another problem - How could the 6th carry the coffine ?with the popluar meme, you'd need at least 2 guys to carry, and with the 7th and 8th , digging holes and buring, they are the ones, buring the body, whose? the 6th one, since 5th is in the med, so the 7th and 8th killed the 6th but why did they want to kill him ?the 5th and 6th are close, so to silence him, he had to die.
And here's the old Beijing version:
Big Baldy got sick, the 2nd Baldy looks him over,
the 3rd Baldy buys the meds, while the 4th cooks,
the 5th Baldy buys the incense and the 6th burns,
the 7th Baldy carries the coffin, and the 8th buries
the 9th Baldy sits on the grave and cries as the 10th asked him why,
the 9th Baldy says,
if the Big Baldy is not dead, we'll just bury him alive !
Messed up, don't you think ?