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Tsagaan Sar 2024

Monday, February 26, 2024

 Ochmaa Escue, Tserenchunt Legden, Joshua Sims, Anton Ermakov, Dylan Charter, and Alex Li perform at Tsagaan Sar
From left to right: Ochmaa Escue, Tserenchunt Legden, Joshua Sims, Anton Ermakov, Dylan Charter, and Alex Li perform at Tsagaan Sar.

Every year, the Bloomington Mongolian community comes together to celebrate the Mongolian New Year, Tsagaan Sar. This February, Mongolian language students, faculty, staff, friends, and many more gathered together to celebrate the beginning of the new year.

During these festivities, various Mongolian cultural performances are held to celebrate the coming of the new year. This year, Central Eurasian Studies graduate students Anton Ermakov and Joshua Sims read Mongolian poems that they had translated into English.

Image description: Anton Ermakov reads a Mongolian poem and his English translation of the poem.

 

Gegee ("Glow"), by Arlany Edene Ochir. Translated into English by Anton Ermakov.

Гадаа мянган жилийн өмнөх салхи ирж биднийг чагнаархан амсхийхэд

Гайхамшигт хором бүхнийг наран саранд шивнээд урсан одов

Эрд урьдын нэгэн сонин зүүд бидэнд адилхан зүүдлэгдээд

Энгэр дотор гэрэл гэгээ татсан нь тэнгэрийн зурсан зураг байв

Ээвэр газар өвлийн цасан доороос нэг яргуй цэнхэр туяа цацсан нь

Эрх нандин сэтгэлд минь алсаас ниссэн бодлын шувуун дэвэлт байв

Гэлмэгтэж голын мөс нарны доогуур танхил өнгө татаад

Гэрэл гэгээ амьдын орчлонг уясган уярал авчирав

Эмнэг жаргалт хорвоогийн цаг мөчийг би алтлан дурсгаад

Эрин зуун чамд бэлэглэсэн минь энэ болой

Эх нутаг, эх орон, энхрий янаг

Энэнээс илүү юуг би хойч ирээдүйд үлдээх билээ?

 

The wind of years long past came to listen to us and take a quick rest

Whispering of all the wonderful moments to the sun and the moon, it flew away.

Once upon a time, we dreamed the same strange dream as before.

The light shining within my chest was a picture painted by the heavens,

A sapphire-blue snowdrop bursting forth from the winter snow on the sun-touched ground,

The fluttering of the bird of thought coming into my precious heart from afar.

The ice on the glimmering river took on the color of gentle innocence under the sun’s rays.

That light brought harmony to the world of living things.

Gilding the moments of this untamed happy world, I pass them on as memories.

This is what I give to you for ages to come.

My homeland, my motherland, my dear one,

What more can I leave for the future except for this?

 

Selections from The Four Seasons, Part 3: Spring, by Danzan Nyamsüren. Translated by Joshua Sims.

Цас хайлж ханзрах сайхан

Цаг ирэх сайхан

Чамайг хүлээх сайхан

Цаг харах сайхан

 

Айлын бүсгүй усанд явах сайхан

Арын булаг уруу дурандах сайхан

Цэнхэр зэрэглээ сүүмэлзэх нь сайхан

Цэнхэр дээл чамд зохих нь сайхан

 

Толгодын орой зэрэглээтэх сайхан

Торгон салхи сэвэлзэх сайхан

Хөх ногооны униар татах сайхан

Хөх мананд нь ороолгон суух сайхан

 

Амгалан шөнө нойр хулжих сайхан

Алсын чимээ анирлах сайхан

Бүүр түүр холд нэг юм жингэнэх сайхан

Бүүвэй бүүвэй хорвоо сайхан.

 

Цөн түрж, гол урсах нь сайхан

Цөмөрвөл, би ч бас урсана даа гэж бодох сайхан

Өглөө голын эрэгт, ганцаархнаа сайхан

Орой голын хөвөөнд чамтайгаа сайхан

 

Хаврын өглөө эрт босох сайхан

Хазаар аваад моринд явах сайхан

Сэрүүн цас үнэртэх нь сайхан

Сэмжин мөснөөс хүлхэх нь сайхан

 

Ургамал цэцэг ургаж ногоорох нь сайхан

Утасны мод хөхөрч гандах нь сайхан

Он жилүүд ирэх сайхан

Он жилүүд одох сайхан

 

Үдшийн бүрийгээр ирэх сайхан

Үүрийн гэгээгээр явах сайхан

Өнгөт дэлхий нь уяран уйлмаар сайхан

Өргөн хорвоо нь дуулан жаргамаар сайхан

 

Fair is the snow as it’s melting away

Fair is the season that comes new years day

Fair are the hours I spend waiting for you

Even watching the clock is a sweet thing to do

 

Fair to see you as you go to the stream

Even as you fetch water, so fair do you seem

Fair is the mist of early spring’s spell

Fair is the blue Deel that suits you so well

 

Fair are the peaks of the fog covered hills

Fair is the silken breeze in fluttering rills

Fair are the fields far off, tinged with blue

Fair Where I sit wrapped in the mists next to you

 

How fair the nights I spend lying awake are

I catch only hints of sounds from afar

The shape of their noise in the distance are swirled

How sweet is to rest in this lullaby world

 

How sweet is the river as its ice breaks and flows,

I should like to float along, see just how far it goes

Sweet is my solitude at riverbank morningtide

Sweet are the evenings I sit there by your side

 

Fair is the morning that early I wake

To go fetch my horse, whose reins I take

Sweet is the smell of the fresh morning snow

Sweet is the taste of the ice, glistening so

 

Fair are the new flowers in field-scattered rows

Fair is the moss on the telephone poles

Fair are the years as they come each in turn

Fair as well as years pass during life’s sojourn

 

Fair to come home by the twilight of even

Fair to depart under morning of heaven

So fair is the earth, it brings tears to my voice

So fair the wide world, I must sing and rejoice

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