Meeting Li Guinian South of the River
Du Fu
Du Fu
江南逢李龜年
岐王宅里尋常見
催九堂前幾度聞
正是江南好風景
落花時節又逢君
岐王宅里尋常見
催九堂前幾度聞
正是江南好風景
落花時節又逢君
jiāng nán féng lǐ guī nián
qí wáng zhái lǐ xún cháng jiàn
cuī jiǔ táng qián jǐ dù wén
zhèng shì jiāng nán hǎo fēng jǐng
luò huā shí jié yòu féng jūn
qí wáng zhái lǐ xún cháng jiàn
cuī jiǔ táng qián jǐ dù wén
zhèng shì jiāng nán hǎo fēng jǐng
luò huā shí jié yòu féng jūn
Qi prince house in ordinary see
Cui Jiu hall before several times listen
Real be river south good landscape
Fall blossom season again meet you
Cui Jiu hall before several times listen
Real be river south good landscape
Fall blossom season again meet you
In Prince Qi's mansion house, I met you often,
By Cui Jiu's hall, I heard you several times.
Truly the landscape south of the river is good,
I meet you again in the season of falling blossom.
By Cui Jiu's hall, I heard you several times.
Truly the landscape south of the river is good,
I meet you again in the season of falling blossom.
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Notes: This poem dates from 770. Li Guinian was a musician at the court of emperor Xuanzong. The prince of Qi was Li Fan, a brother of Xuanzong (McMullen p. 193); Cui was Cui Di, a court official (all notes Hawkes p. 211).
This poem is volume (juàn) 232, no. 37 in the Complete Tang Poems (quán táng shī). It is translated as poem 35 in Hawkes, pp. 210-12, poem CCCLXVII in Hung, p. 273 and poem 134 in Watson, p. 160, and on p. 111 of Hinton.
Hawkes, D. (1967) A Little Primer of Tu Fu. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
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.
