Border Songs 4, Lu Lun

The rough tent covers a fine banquet;
Raiders toast the triumphant return.
Drunk together, dancing in armor—
Thunderous drums shaking the landscape.

塞下曲 首四
野幕蔽琼筵，
羌戎贺劳旋。
醉和金甲舞，
雷鼓动山川。

The raiders are called Qiang, which today is the Mandarin name for a single non-Han ethnic group in western Sichuan, but in the past this was a catch-all term for several peoples living between the Han and Tibetan spheres of influence—thus my leaving it generic.

—L.