A War Poem for A Lost Homeland. Yue Fei's Man Jiang Hong 满江红
满江红, or River of Crimson by the Chinese artist Héhóngzhōu 何红舟. The composition is horizontally arranged and has Yue Fei framed by the elements on his sides.
Man Jiang Hong 满江红 (lit. River full of crimson, or the River all in red) is one of the most famous poems traditionally attributed to the patriotic Song dynasty general Yue Fei. When the imperial capital of Song was taken and sacked, its Emperor was shamefully abducted, its old heartland conquered by the Jurchens, General Yue Fei took up arms and waged a stubborn war of resistance and reclamation against the barbarians. This poem invoke the spirit of patriotic native resistance from the Song citizenry against the invaders and attempts to inspire them to retake the old homelands.
怒发冲冠，凭栏处，潇潇雨歇。
My wrath bristles through my helmet, the rain stops as I stand by the rail;
抬望眼，仰天长啸，壮怀激烈。
I look up towards the sky and let loose a passionate roar.
三十功名尘与土，八千里路云和月。
At the age of thirty, my deeds are nothing but dust, my journey has taken me over eight thousand li
莫等闲白了少年头，空悲切。
So do not sit by idly, for young men will grow old in regret.
靖康耻，犹未雪；
The Humiliation of Jingkang still lingers,
The Humiliation of Jingkang still lingers,
臣子恨，何时灭？
When will the pain of the Emperor’s subjects ever end?
驾长车踏破贺兰山缺！
Let us ride our chariots through the Helan Pass,
壮志饥餐胡虏肉，笑谈渴饮匈奴血。
There we shall feast on barbarian flesh and drink the blood of the Xiongnu.
待从头收拾旧山河，朝天阙。
Let us begin anew to recover our old empire, before paying tribute to the Emperor.
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Comments
1. It's only cannibalism if you're eating the flesh and drinking the blood from someone of the same species, of the same 'kind'. The Barbarians are fundamentally of a different 'kind' from the Han Chinese. And yes, I reject the modern definitions of species based on DNA, genetics, etc, I also reject the Abrahamic definition of common descent from a mythical Adam/Eve.
2. Yue Fei's war was a war against ruthless foreign invaders, a Great Patriotic War to reclaim lands rightly ours, it was a war of Liberation. It was a Rightous and Holy War.
3. Short and pudgy? So what if Yue Fei wasn't a Greek God, it's what's on the inside, and not the outside that counts, and the Han Chinese have always valued brains over braun.
4. The Liao, Jin, Xi Xia, Mongols and Manchus are 'not of China'.
https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-three-kingdoms-six-things-youve-asked-about-classic-mode
Plus the Classics Mode attempts to rectify the problems of the fantastical elements (from the OP solo generals, to the chainmails in the armors and bring them down to something more like Shogun II) so I'd say they are doing it right. There are still little things that kind of bother me, like in the demo that showed Cao Cao ambushing the Sun family when Dong Zhou was still alive and Sun Quan's already a man *despite the fact that he would only be 10 year old at the time.
I think what happened was that the ambush battle (happened much later in the era with Zhang Liao marching down to attack Wu) was already build, the devs then had to quickly produce a flyover of the campaign map for presentation. In their haste to scrunge up a narrative that serve as an intro they got the timeframe wrong. Other than that I am still waiting on more info about the Classics Mode before I can comment fully.