Jueju Free Mood, No. 7 of 9 (The Path is Paved With Poplar Catkins)
Du Fu
Du Fu
漫興
糝徑楊花鋪白氈
點溪荷葉疊青錢
筍根稚子無人見
沙上鳧雛傍母眠
糝徑楊花鋪白氈
點溪荷葉疊青錢
筍根稚子無人見
沙上鳧雛傍母眠
màn xìng
sǎn jìng yáng huā pū bái zhān
diǎn xī hé yè dié qīng qián
sǔn gēn zhì zǐ wú rén jiàn
shā shàng fú chú bàng mǔ mián
sǎn jìng yáng huā pū bái zhān
diǎn xī hé yè dié qīng qián
sǔn gēn zhì zǐ wú rén jiàn
shā shàng fú chú bàng mǔ mián
Grain path poplar blossom pave white carpet
Little stream lotus leaves piled green money
Bamboo shoot root sprout no person see
Sand on duckling beside mother sleep
Little stream lotus leaves piled green money
Bamboo shoot root sprout no person see
Sand on duckling beside mother sleep
The path is paved with poplar catkins, a carpet of white grain,
Lotus leaves on the little stream are piled like green coins.
Among the roots of new bamboo, sprouts that no man has seen,
On the sand nearby, a duckling sleeps beside its mother.
Lotus leaves on the little stream are piled like green coins.
Among the roots of new bamboo, sprouts that no man has seen,
On the sand nearby, a duckling sleeps beside its mother.
View Chinese text in simplified characters.
Other Chinese poems about Nature.
Note: A variant reading of zhizi in the third line is 'pheasant'.
This poem is volume (juàn) 227, no. 6 in the Complete Tang Poems (quán táng shī). It is translated as poem 75 in Watson, p. 90, and poem CCIII in Hung, p. 176, and on p. 64 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.
