this song is about freedom but it is also the story of the wushe incident in japanese occupied taiwan where during a wedding within the seediq people a japanese soldier overseeing the wedding refused to take wine from them and then insulted them which led to a rebellion against the japanese army thus the "rising red sun" allusions, the incident ended in the slaughter of the seediq people and japanese forces and the suicide of rudao bai (though the song seems to say mona maybe a typo) the leader of the rebellion
this song is about freedom but it is also the story of the wushe incident in japanese occupied taiwan where during a wedding within the seediq people a japanese soldier overseeing the wedding refused to take wine from them and then insulted them which led to a rebellion against the japanese army thus the "rising red sun" allusions, the incident ended in the slaughter of the seediq people and japanese forces and the suicide of rudao bai (though the song seems to say mona maybe a typo) the leader of the rebellion