太陽照在桑乾河上 tài yáng zhào zài sāng gān hé shàng

DEFINITIONS

  1. The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River, proletarian novel by Ding Ling, winner of 1951 Stalin prize

CHARACTERS

太 tài very, too, much; big; extreme
陽 yáng 'male' principle; light; sun
照 zhào shine, illumine, reflect
在 zài be at, in, on; consist in, rest
桑 sāng mulberry tree; surname
乾 gān dry; first hexagram; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male)
河 hé river; stream; yellow river
上 shàng top; superior, highest; go up, send up