Qiang Village (1)
Du Fu
Du Fu
羌村 (一)
崢嶸赤雲西
日腳下平地
柴門鳥雀噪
歸客千里至
妻孥怪我在
驚定還拭淚
世亂遭飄蕩
生還偶然遂
鄰人滿牆頭
感嘆亦歔欷
夜闌更秉燭
相對如夢寐
崢嶸赤雲西
日腳下平地
柴門鳥雀噪
歸客千里至
妻孥怪我在
驚定還拭淚
世亂遭飄蕩
生還偶然遂
鄰人滿牆頭
感嘆亦歔欷
夜闌更秉燭
相對如夢寐
qiāng cūn ( yī)
zhēng róng chì yún xī
rì jiǎo xià píng dì
chái mén niǎo què zào
guī kè qiān lǐ zhì
qī nú guài wǒ zài
jīng dìng hái shì lèi
shì luàn zāo piāo dàng
shēng huán ǒu rán suì
lín rén mǎn qiáng tóu
gǎn tàn yì xū xī
yè lán gèng bǐng zhú
xiāng duì rú mèng mèi
zhēng róng chì yún xī
rì jiǎo xià píng dì
chái mén niǎo què zào
guī kè qiān lǐ zhì
qī nú guài wǒ zài
jīng dìng hái shì lèi
shì luàn zāo piāo dàng
shēng huán ǒu rán suì
lín rén mǎn qiáng tóu
gǎn tàn yì xū xī
yè lán gèng bǐng zhú
xiāng duì rú mèng mèi
Towering red cloud west
Sun base down level ground
Wicker gate bird sparrow chirp
Return traveller thousand li to
Wife children surprised I be present
Shock calm more wipe tears
Life disorder meet float swing
Return alive chance succeed
Neighbour satisfied top of wall
Sigh also sob
Night late more grasp candle
Opposite like dream
Sun base down level ground
Wicker gate bird sparrow chirp
Return traveller thousand li to
Wife children surprised I be present
Shock calm more wipe tears
Life disorder meet float swing
Return alive chance succeed
Neighbour satisfied top of wall
Sigh also sob
Night late more grasp candle
Opposite like dream
Red clouds tower in the west,
The sun is sinking on the plain.
A sparrow chirps on the wicker gate,
I return from a thousand li away.
My wife and children are shocked to see me,
Then calm themselves and wipe their tears.
I floated through this disordered life,
By chance I have managed to return alive.
The neighbours all lean over the wall,
And they as well are sighing and sobbing.
Late at night we bring out candles,
And face each other as in a dream.
The sun is sinking on the plain.
A sparrow chirps on the wicker gate,
I return from a thousand li away.
My wife and children are shocked to see me,
Then calm themselves and wipe their tears.
I floated through this disordered life,
By chance I have managed to return alive.
The neighbours all lean over the wall,
And they as well are sighing and sobbing.
Late at night we bring out candles,
And face each other as in a dream.
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Notes: This poem dates from 757, when Du Fu was given leave from court to rejoin his family in Qiang or Jiang village, in Fuzhou (Watson p. 41). A li is a Chinese unit of distance, equal to approximately a third of a mile.
Other Chinese poems about Meeting.
This poem is volume (juàn) 217, no. 18 in the Complete Tang Poems (quán táng shī). It is translated as poem 31 in Watson, p. 41, and poem LXXXVI in Hung, pp. 114-15, and on p. 423 of Owen.
Hung, W. (1952) Tu Fu: China's Greatest Poet. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press.
Owen, S. (1996) An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. New York/London, W. W. Norton.
Watson, B. (2002) The Selected Poems of Du Fu. New York, Columbia University Press.
