Jueju, No. 1 of 2 (In Late Sun, the River and Hills are Beautiful)
Du Fu
Du Fu
遲日江山麗
春風花草香
泥融飛燕子
沙暖睡鴛鴦
春風花草香
泥融飛燕子
沙暖睡鴛鴦
chí rì jiāng shān lì
chūn fēng huā cǎo xiāng
ní róng fēi yàn zǐ
shā nuǎn shuì yuān yāng
chūn fēng huā cǎo xiāng
ní róng fēi yàn zǐ
shā nuǎn shuì yuān yāng
Late sun river hill beautiful
Spring wind flower grass fragrant
Mud thaw fly swallow
Sand warm sleep mandarin duck
Spring wind flower grass fragrant
Mud thaw fly swallow
Sand warm sleep mandarin duck
In late sun, the river and hills are beautiful,
The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass.
The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around,
On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping.
The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass.
The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around,
On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping.
View Chinese text in simplified characters.
Other Chinese poems about Spring and Nature.
Note: This poem probably dates from around 764 (Watson p. 111).
This poem is volume (juàn) 228, no. 21 in the Complete Tang Poems (quán táng shī). It is translated as poem 93 in Watson, p. 111, poem CCCVI in Hung, p. 244, and on p. 86 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.
