Should we do a little FResearch on this.
Could the jackal reference refer to other countries that at the time the song was written were viewed as enemies of China.
It was written during the Korean War and the “Jackal” referred to the US. It is even taught that way still.
If this song came from a Chinese movie about the Korean War, I strongly suspect the word “jackal” was not directed towards the Spanish, Egyptians or Bolivians.
Two years ago I strolled through a bootleg DVD store in Toronto’s “Chinatown.” Lots of Chinese war movies there, of which I’m sure this was one. I wondered what a Chinese war movie would be like, and then realized who the “bad guys” were gonna be.
“At the White House State dinner on Jan. 19, about six minutes into his set, Lang Lang began tapping out a famous anti-American propaganda melody from the Korean War: the theme song to the movie “Battle on Shangganling Mountain.”
“The film depicts a group of “People’s Volunteer Army” soldiers who are first hemmed in at Shanganling (or Triangle Hill) and then, when reinforcements arrive, take up their rifles and counterattack the U.S. military “jackals.”
“The movie and the tune are widely known among Chinese, and the song has been a leading piece of anti-American propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for decades.”