Cantonese Battle Cry

I started writing about Cantonese profanity and realized it'll take too much time to finish.

Here's a little stand-alone piece:

This bilingual monument is in 东莞, home town of  one of the greatest heros in Chinese history 袁崇焕.  To me, this battle cry is the most moving tribute paid to the great commander who wounded (and eventually killed) the founder of Manchu Qing Dynasty 努尔哈赤. 

I get emotional whenever I learn more about him, 袁崇焕 was a great military commander and a scholar. He was a 進士, that means he went from local to provincial, then to the (once every three years) national level exam in the capitol. Out of this elite group of scholar, he made the final cut to the Imperial Exam held in the palace.   

His stature in history is comparable to another famous Manchu fighting general fome Sung Dynasty 岳飛。 Unfortunately, like 岳飛, he was also tortured to death, 袁崇焕 suffered over 3,000 slow and painful fingernail sized cuts and the little guy refused to die till they started cutting his internal organs. What a fucking warrior!  When I hear the Cantonese opera 帝女花, instead of feeling sorry for the princess, I curse Emperor 崇貞 for doing that to my hero.  

金庸wrote a short biography of  袁崇焕  who also appeared in his fiction if I remember correctly.

General George Patton's "Blood and Guts" speech is also full of filthy words, Patton said it's the swear words that made the soldiers remember the points he's trying to make. The movie version does not capture the spirit of the speech, you may want to find the speech on the web.