Jueju, No. 3 of 4 (Two Golden Orioles Sing in the Green Willows)
Du Fu
Du Fu
兩個黃鸝鳴翠柳
一行白鷺上青天
窗含西嶺千秋雪
門泊東吳萬里船
一行白鷺上青天
窗含西嶺千秋雪
門泊東吳萬里船
liǎng gè huáng lí míng cuì liǔ
yī háng bái lù shàng qīng tiān
chuāng hán xī lǐng qiān qiū xuě
mén bó dōng wú wàn lǐ chuán
yī háng bái lù shàng qīng tiān
chuāng hán xī lǐng qiān qiū xuě
mén bó dōng wú wàn lǐ chuán
Two (measure word) golden orioles sing green willow
One row white egrets on blue sky
Window contain west mountain thousand autumn snow
Door moor east Wu ten thousand li boat
One row white egrets on blue sky
Window contain west mountain thousand autumn snow
Door moor east Wu ten thousand li boat
Two golden orioles sing in the green willows,
A row of white egrets against the blue sky.
The window frames the western hills' snow of a thousand autumns,
At the door is moored, from eastern Wu, a boat of ten thousand li.
A row of white egrets against the blue sky.
The window frames the western hills' snow of a thousand autumns,
At the door is moored, from eastern Wu, a boat of ten thousand li.
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Other Chinese poems about Nature.
Notes: This poem dates from 764 (Watson, p. 107). A li is a Chinese unit of distance, equal to approximately a third of a mile. Wu is the region around modern-day Shanghai.
This poem is volume (juàn) 228, no. 62 in the Complete Tang Poems (quán táng shī). It is translated as poem 90 in Watson, p. 107, and poem CCXVI in Hung, p. 184, and on p. 53 of Hinton.
Hinton, D. (1990) The Selected Poems of Tu Fu. London, Anvil Press Poetry.
Hung, W. (1952) Tu Fu: China's Greatest Poet. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press.
Watson, B. (2002) The Selected Poems of Du Fu. New York, Columbia University Press.
