Long Post) Let's look into that song that's all over YouTube Shorts lately

It's basically a Chinese song that's been popping up on Shorts a lot lately, and the original is apparently a Chinese folk song called Midu Shange (弥渡山歌). Here are the lyrics to Midu Shange:

​山對山來崖對崖 (Mountain faces mountain, cliff faces cliff)<​><​/span>

蜜蜂採花過嶺來 (Bees cross the ridge to gather nectar)<​><​/span>

蜜蜂本은爲花死 (Bees are meant to die for the flowers)<​><​/span>

小郎是爲阿姐來 (And this young man has come for his lady)<​><​/span>

山對山來岩對岩 (Mountain faces mountain, rock faces rock)<​><​/span>

蜜蜂採花過嶺來 (Bees cross the ridge to gather nectar)<​><​/span>

樑上燕子雙雙對 (Even the swallows on the beam are paired up)<​><​/span>

哪有阿姐單身行 (How could my lady walk this path alone?)<​><​/span>

Here's a rough summary of the story: In an era when women weren't allowed to study, a father disguises his daughter as a boy and secretly sends her to school. <​/span> She falls in love with a man she stays with at the dorms and they promise to marry, but when she returns home, an arranged marriage is already set for her. <​/span> To make matters worse, the man she loved actually dies. <​/span> On her wedding day, while passing by her lover's grave in a sedan chair, a storm breaks out and the ground splits open. The woman falls into the crack and dies, then the storm miraculously stops and the two are reincarnated as butterflies and fly away together. <​/span>

As expected from the land of Li Bai and Du Fu, it's a masterpiece that uses that 7-character rhyme scheme perfectly.

Seriously... you guys are so good when you stick to your own stuff, so why do you keep trying to claim other people's culture as yours...