Jueju (Enjoying Flowers Walking Alone on a Riverbank, No. 6 of 7)
Du Fu
Du Fu
江畔獨步尋花
黃四娘家花滿蹊
千朵萬朵壓枝低
留連戲蝶時時舞
自在嬌鶯恰恰啼
黃四娘家花滿蹊
千朵萬朵壓枝低
留連戲蝶時時舞
自在嬌鶯恰恰啼
jiāng pàn dú bù xún huā
huáng sì niáng jiā huā mǎn xī
qiān duǒ wàn duǒ yā zhī dī
liú lián xì dié shí shí wǔ
zì zài jiāo yīng qià qià tí
huáng sì niáng jiā huā mǎn xī
qiān duǒ wàn duǒ yā zhī dī
liú lián xì dié shí shí wǔ
zì zài jiāo yīng qià qià tí
Huangsi girl house flowers fill path
Thousand blossom ten thousand blossom press branch low
Reluctant to leave play butterfly constantly dance
Free and unrestrained lovely oriole cry
Thousand blossom ten thousand blossom press branch low
Reluctant to leave play butterfly constantly dance
Free and unrestrained lovely oriole cry
At Huang Si's house, flowers fill the path,
Myriad blossoms press the branches low.
Constantly dancing butterflies stay to play,
Unrestrained, the lovely orioles cry.
Myriad blossoms press the branches low.
Constantly dancing butterflies stay to play,
Unrestrained, the lovely orioles cry.
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 CXCVI 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.
