多恨生 DUOHENSHENG / LIFE OF MANY HATREDS
多恨生 Duohensheng (Spotify link here, YouTube link here) is the seventeenth song on the CQL companion album, and is performed by Zhu Xingjie as Jin Guangyao’s character song.
The title of the song incorporates the name of Jin Guangyao’s soft sword, 恨生 Hensheng, which I’ve chattered about a bit in this post here. The characters are 恨 hen / “hatred, resentment” and 生 sheng / “to give birth to, to give rise to.” The character 生 sheng is particularly versatile, in that it can also, in noun form, mean “life.” As a result, 恨生 hensheng can also be translated as “the birth of hatred” or “hating life.”
Conceivable alternate translations for the title of this song include: “birth of many hatreds,” “greatly resenting life,” and “much hated life.”