Honghu (Chinese: 洪湖; pinyin: Hónghú) is a county-level city in the municipal region of Jingzhou, in the south of Hubei province, People's Republic of China. The city lies on the northwest (left) bank of the Yangtze River, across from Hunan Province and Xianning, Hubei. It is named after the adjacent Hong Lake, which since ancient times has periodically flooded.
The traditional Chinese holiday Duanwu Jie (端午节, Dragon Boat Festival), celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, features boat races which are run on Hong Lake.
By means of its famous lake, Honghu City produces forty kinds of fish and an abundance of plants, such as lotus, reed and a type of black algae.
As of 2000, Honghu City had a population of 335,618 or more people.
Honghu is celebrated as an important supporter of the Communist side during last century's Chinese Civil War. Westerners know it for New Zealand communist Rewi Alley's relief work and Gung-ho (共合, Gonghe) co-operative movement.
Downwards, downwards
Life's spiraling descent
Downwards, downwards
Life's spiraling descent
All love is lost
Premature and unreasoning
Premature and unreasoning
Perversely chained without any values
Perversely chained without any values
Wretched, degraded
Wretched, degraded
Take it all on the chin
To forever hold my peace
To forever hold my peace
The reins turned noose, pull taunt as I fall
The reins turned noose, pull taunt as I fall
The figment is more painful than fact
And I'm the one to hang
Just for being me, for being me
The murky clouds wash, solace comforts not
And I'm the one to hang
Just for being me, just for being me
Black numbing blanket smothers attrition