Jueju (Enjoying Flowers Walking Alone on a Riverbank, No. 5 of 7)
Du Fu
Du Fu
江畔獨步尋花
黃師塔前江水東
春光懶困倚微風
桃花一簇開無主
可愛深紅愛淺紅
黃師塔前江水東
春光懶困倚微風
桃花一簇開無主
可愛深紅愛淺紅
jiāng pàn dú bù xún huā
huáng shī tǎ qián jiāng shuǐ dōng
chūn guāng lǎn kùn yǐ wéi fēng
táo huā yī cù kāi wú zhǔ
kě ài shēn hóng ài qiǎn hóng
huáng shī tǎ qián jiāng shuǐ dōng
chūn guāng lǎn kùn yǐ wéi fēng
táo huā yī cù kāi wú zhǔ
kě ài shēn hóng ài qiǎn hóng
Huang abbot pagoda before river water east
Spring bright lazy sleepy rely on light wind
Peach blossom one clump open without owner
Lovely deep red love light red
Spring bright lazy sleepy rely on light wind
Peach blossom one clump open without owner
Lovely deep red love light red
Before Abbot Huang's pagoda, river water flows east,
In the brightness of spring, lazily lean into the gentle breeze.
One clump of peach blossom's opened, no-one to own it,
Is dark or light red more to be loved?
In the brightness of spring, lazily lean into the gentle breeze.
One clump of peach blossom's opened, no-one to own it,
Is dark or light red more to be loved?
View Chinese text in simplified characters.
Other Chinese poems about Nature.
This poem is volume (juàn) 227, no. 7 in the Complete Tang Poems (quán táng shī). It is translated as poem 10.28 in Owen, as poem CXCV in Hung, p.175, and on p. 61 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.
Owen, S. (2016) The Poetry of Du Fu. Boston/Berlin, de Gruyter.
