A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems

z?-ang (A.

ast of their sk

y they are like

other of succes

nsider the ultimat

know of the Mas

wide world i

ption got clear of

tation entered the G

L M

hi (circa

, what shoul

ne, sipping hi

ve visitors come an

tax-collector comi

married into

hters wedded to

through a happy

end, need

NG TO

Wan

ntinually fudd

sfy the appeti

all behaving li

alone re

the war which preced

FISH

flourished circ

ned in any European book. "His subjects were always original, but

dearly, Ston

sland shaped lik

back is the

h,-the flowing wa

shore sent lit

carry a singl

nkers emptied

ils and sent the

the Lake were jut

ocks there flow

e, to rinse our

aters was a joy

ewels I have

oaches I do no

d sit on the rock

ver staring at

LIZA

üan

east-three th

siang form int

e are deep mo

whose hearts ar

they swarm to the

water to catch

the same as those

traint either o

ered throughout

such manners h

anding and wonde

nd Sages have re

SIXTH YEAR OF CH'

flourished circ

rivers of the

de your bat

pose the peopl

"firewood a

hear you tal

les and p

e general's

of ten thous

necessari

BIRTH O

-p'o (A.D.

when a chi

to be in

gh intel

ecked my

the baby

nt and

l crown a t

g a Cabine

DLAR O

(A.D. 1

charms in a crann

less the silkworms and sp

e gets each day

worry when his

s a boy t

NG IN

L

y I sail in

s with a grea

s branches I see th

ng stream the st

y lanes sheep

illage cranes

ome I drink

the greed[44] of

ich "ea

HERD

L

village the boy

feet stands o

in his coat the

ken hat the mou

ke he seemed t

ne suddenly we w

and the ox is ba

oozes through t

LAKE TILL I CAME T

L

er,-thirty or

sunlight,-three

ys minding ge

s tending mulb

te: their coats

ul: their talk a

erer moors h

he bank to pluck

TH-CENTURY

ered his services to the Ming princes who were still opposing the Manchus. In 1647 he headed a conspiracy to place the Ming prince Lu on the thr

nd and wife from a town menaced by the advancing M

ITTLE

g and banging through

ehind: the woman

e city and do not

elm-tree leaves: they

some quiet place and

attened the yel

stance they see th

eople living who'll giv

no one comes: they look in

the lonely road and the

1

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1

1

ODUC

at Jung-yang in Honan. His father was a second-class Assistant Department

e political capital of the Empire. In its situation it somewhat resembled Madrid. Lo-yang, the Eastern city, ow

d to play so important a part in his life. Five years later, during a t

y home to seek

I have lived

gained? On

to bind frie

horseback under th

he snow and warmed

d parted at th

s bothered to pu

up together fo

ng in the same De

ed us lay deeper t

r souls spring f

r men, T'ang Ch'ü and Tēng Fang, liked his poetry and showed him much kindness; another, the politician K'ung T'an, won his admiration on public grounds. But all three died soon after he got to know them. Later he made three friends with whom he maintained a lifelong intimacy: the poet Liu Yū-hsi (called Mēng-tē), and the two officials Li Chien and Ts'ui Hsuan-liang. In 805 Yüan Chēn was banished for provocative behaviour towards a high official. The T'an

o Chü-i. In a poem called "Climbing

n the Twelve

lanked by

orsemen alone

whom my heart

has died

s banished

alk on the No

that I care for m

d "Visiting the Wu-chēn Temple." Soon after his return to Ch'ang-an, which took place in the winter of 814, he fell into official disfavour. In two long memorials entitled "On Stopping the War," he had criticized the handling of a

Po, in a memorial to the Throne, pointed out the urgency of remedying the prevailing discontent. He held at this time the post of assistant secretary to the Princes' tutor. He should

while looking at flowers. Chü-i had written two poems entitled "In Praise of Flowers" and "The N

the Governorship of Chung-chou, a remote place in Ssech'uan. On the way up the Yangtze he met Yüan Chēn after thr

ght to its new Governor. In the winter of 819 he was recalled to the capital and became

h-west. Chü-i remonstrated in a series of memorials and was again removed from the capital-this time to be Governor

whose singing and dancing enlivened his retreat. He also brought with him from Hangchow a famous "Indian rock," and two cranes of the celebrated "Hua-t'ing" breed. Other amenities of his life at this tim

nd of second youth, much more sociable than that of thirty years before; we find him

in 829 settled at Lo-yang as Governor of the Province of Honan. Her

an Chēn a

fficials; the occasion was recorded in a picture entitled "The Nine Old Men at Hsiang-shan." There is no evidence that his association with them was otherwise than transient, though legend (see "Mémoires Concernant les Chinois" and Giles, Biographical Dictionary) has invested the incident with an undue importance. He amused himself at t

s, and a constant visitor at the monastery, "went to wa

aries" of the period) in the towns with which he had been connected. He died in 846, leaving instructions that his funeral should be without pomp and that he sh

cholar to display his erudition, or the literary juggler his dexterity. Po expounded his theory of poetry in a letter to Yüan Chēn. Like Confucius, he regarded art solely as a method of conveying instruction. He is not the only great artist who has advanced this untenable theory. He accordingly valued his

of Ch'in, they looked at one another and changed countenance," he boasts. Satire, in the European sense, implies wit; but Po's sat

s for praise the series by Ch'ēn Tz?-ang, which includes "Business Men." In Li Po and Tu Fu he finds a deficiency of "fēng" and "ya."

hih a ramification of allusions ancient and modern could not be surpassed; in this he i

oors the smell

ones of one who w

of his whole wor

etry from the triviality into which it had sunk and restoring it to its proper intellectual level. It is an irony that he should be chiefly known to posterity, in China, Japan, and the

ed that all the satires and long poems are in the old style of versification, while his lighter poems are in the strict, modern form. With his satires he

lough-boys, and grooms." They were inscribed "on the walls of village-schools, temples, and ships-cabins." "A certain Captain Kao Hsia-yü was courting a d

ues highest just those of my poems which I most despise. Of contemporaries you alone have understood my satires and ref

e of pedantry swept over China. At that period his poetry was considered vul

the Ming critics can accuse him of slovenly writing.

his disposal. Many of the later anthologies omit his name altogether, but he has always had isolated admirers. Yüan Mei imita

from him. He is still held in high repute there, is the subject of a Nō Play and has even become a kind of Shintō dei

haracter" of one's subject. But I hold myself absolved from such a task; for

ragment, of which I hope to publish a translation. Upon this fragment

culptures, carved in the s

Chinese Liter

Chinese Liter

1

1

ARLY

to Ch'ēn,

n-a full fo

bestow congratulati

ring the Gate of

ft the suburb

seway my horse'

e journey my lanter

ing, always fac

d almost ble

e bell outside

summons within

were frozen and co

robe-chill

hought of Hs

y envied Ch

ocks dozing b

p till the sun ha

IN THE PALACE AND DREAMI

dow I paused from

boos were all bur

se and a ca

s like an eveni

zed, I dreamed

staying at the H

ard the dripping o

t the murmur of a

poet used to sp

H'ANG-AN AND SEEING A DISTANT

from Chung-nan; sp

ts blue colours, against

n thousand horsemen pa

looks at the moun

an Shan range, fifteen m

LE

t that I saw him. When I awoke, I found that a letter from him had

ther in the Yu

e north of the

-I shed a

t things,-not

the road to

f you would not

r halts for eati

've crossed the

he clouds sc

ues, the same m

e, I dreamt I

en that you wer

I thought I h

tell me what yo

d: "I miss

here to send to y

before I had

he door sounded

ld me a messenge

etter,-a single

ow I suddenly s

my clothes, al

ot and saw the

with thirteen l

d the sorrows of

described the pai

d pains took u

m left to talk a

id that wh

r the night to the

lighted by a

mountain hostel

e when you fi

n was slanting t

es aslant acr

of purple paul

rs just on the

press "thinking of

wrote on th

er, your "Poem of t

Paulovnia Flower

uplets have cast a

hold of this m

yours, the night y

oem I read

ten times

o me are the

er changes int

THE ARRIVAL O

a A.D

bird's note wa

ed the green

ving that spring

red the Eastern

p and was dully

d a knocking so

, I was glad that

e, when I saw it

eisure,-all d

tling,-the feeli

ing is a singl

tell the story o

EN B

was alm

r whose name wa

t a year sinc

g to sit and c

that I have not

vulgar thought

m tied to things

-the pleasure I

the grief of

the trouble of g

ring and going b

ostponed for

ING GOLD

ill,-a man

uileless,-a

, still better

feeling,-from ti

,-they suddenly

dow wandered I

ber how just at

sounds, beginning

at the ties of

o a load of gr

ing of the time b

reason I drov

orgot her, many

winter has cha

a little, the ol

road, I met he

LN

ean with l

notonous-days

s have clad the

n"[51] already

y in the nest wh

to little birds

then lay hid

o a cricket sit

ons go on for

re nothing

ent. Only the

still ache

he epi

N OF THE

Sa

f the Black Pool,

on lives there, whom

ilt a shrine; the authoritie

mains a dragon, but m

r, rain and drought, p

ere all regarded as the

s of sucking-pig and p

evening gifts depended

dragon

stirs a

oney th

brellas

dragon

nd als

-fire d

d vessels a

on the rocks of

he grass in fro

those offerings, how

d the foxes of the hills are

he foxes

the suckin

should be killed, mer

ng the Sacred Dragon and

d depths of His pool

f a famous Ha

RAIN

cials come to receive his grain-tribute, he remembers that he is only giving back

icer knocking by

ce demanding

s dared not wait

es and set them o

he sieve, clean-

oad, thirty bu

cry that it is

rses they goad my

or, I entere

ed that my talents

occupied four

thing,-ten y

ard that saying

ill follow in a

ought to set m

hers the corn i

PLE OF

land of

e people a

m never grow to mo

arket as dwarf slaves a

g of natural products fr

natural products"; I

m those they loved,

heir grandsons; mothe

h'ēng came to

dwarf slaves in spite

r "Your servant finds in

must offer what is there,

s of Tao-chou, among a

fish people; no

s deeply moved and he

f dwarfish slaves is

ple of

ung ones, how g

other with brother hen

ever more they l

ple of

njoy th

hen they speak

art to t

heir children's children shou

syllable "Yang" is ofte

OLD

sia-wood is the

lie ancien

dies-weak an

g to present

r are faded fro

ered the ros

uin came to

t is left is stil

to play it, if

play, people w

come to be

ang flute and the C

ous modern

RPER O

hushed their no

of the dancers

ute, the old

as he touches

s swell and s

ke wind blow

s dying almos

like the voice o

s the magpie'

as the gibbon

gers have n

"kung," chih

t and listen to

body lose

ss that way as h

and cannot rai

hat the ears

e modern and n

t the harp in

covered deep

d superdominant of the

LOWER

City spring i

the coaches and

her "This is th

crowd that goes to

dear-no uni

ant depends on the

wer,-a hundred p

flower,-five

d an awning to

a wattle-fence

ater and cover th

lanted, they will no

houghtlessly fol

n, no one

d to be an ol

by chance

head and sigh

igh nobody

, "A cluster of

taxes of ten

PRIS

n in A

led in

led in

faces bruised-they are dri

pity on them and woul

the south-east, to th

ellow coat took down t

ity of Ch'ang-an under e

the wounds of arrows, their bon

they could only march

atisfy hunger and thirst w

their dirt and rags on b

Yangtze River and remember

levelled voices they

up his voice and spok

none at all compar

him in the same band

eak the words wer

orn and bred in the t

of Ta-li[57] I fell i

rtars took me alive f

coat of skins tied

he first month might I

d arranged my cap, how

a secret vow I wo

ar wife and the children s

is well for me that my

my heart I feared I sho

hoot so well that the b

arrows I escaped aliv

ing all night, I crosse

d the moon black and the

the Green Grave,[59] where

the Yellow River, at

60] drums and the sou

the road-side, bowing

en did not hear that

for a Tartar born and

y to the south-east, to

e pity on me: resis

voice chokes and I

only to spend the rest

of Liang-yüan I sh

the Tartars' land I ha

and was taken prisoner, I

e land of Han, they have

fate would be, I would

ide apart, are alike in

isoners i

all the prisoners mine

s so great a wrong be

Han tongue set in

n Turk

th of Ch

iod Ta-li, A

e Gobi

upon the Khan of the Hsiung-nu as a mark of Imperial regard" (Giles). Her

.e., C

ELLOR'S G

e Maltreatment

ll yoked to a G

f Ch'an River, a bar

load of

pounds

carrying at dusk,

ing it towards

st of the

reen laurels they are

y arrove, ne

t Chancellor

ly afraid that

y his hors

llor's hor

avel and remained

mployed in dra

st sweat

nt Chancell

men, gover

ize Yin an

e bull's n

trouble h

and positive pri

O DREAMED

ity of T'ai-chou. The Emperor at once appointed him prefect of the place, "pour lui permettre d'herboriser plus à son aise" (Wieger, Textes III, 1723). When

man who dreamt

soared aloft

back of a whi

is flight by two

gs and flapping

suddenly al

ven, he looked

dark turmoil

st the place of

water-nothing

ean-a single s

China,-five s

him a host of

on to the Palace

ss that the child

e like courtiers

e presence of the M

ad and proffer

: "We see you ha

rt and do not

to fetch you i

ce in the Courtyar

acknowledged th

sleep, full of

et and dared no

he would live in

fection he sever

drinking he omitte

al was a dish

pped an essenc

ntains he lived

for the Heavenl

ointment was al

nd coach-bells

air daily withe

s gradually lost

e suffered th

ne with the dust a

! If indeed such

eyond the strivi

your skull the Gold

ent from the rolls

n the "Method of

tudy the "Book o

d toil, what shall

ten the five-score

e man who dre

ream spoiled h

., the I

A

s, the g

no bottom: side

misty billows down i

the midst there stan

ck growing,-herbs

eat them and they turn

and Wu of Han[64] beli

ar by year were sent

now and of old, wha

d before them and they

s, the g

, the mig

cannot see the shores

Blessed Isles and yet

t began the quest grew

ritings of Hsü[65] we

nd Great Unity in vain t

ou n

Black Horse Hill[66] and

sighing wind blowing

d what

ster of Sages in his f

poke of

poke of

in broad daylight u

rst Emperor,

Ti, 15

ü Shih. G

-places of thes

] I

?, in the T

O RED

against Cl

o Red

th rise facin

, to whom do

es of the period

their flutes and drew do

rough the Five Clouds,

ses, that they coul

mples planted in th

nd dancers' towers al

dancers' arms, and t

ng at yellow twilight, whe

ngs and flutes, but

the Temple doors is wri

and monks' cells am

right moonlight-plen

a sick man who has ha

P'ing-yang they were bui

e housing space of tho

us, two by two, and their ho

the whole world will

785

n Tsung's

ARCOAL

against "K

charcoa

charcoal in the forests

ust and ashes, has turne

is streaked with gray: h

y selling charcoal,

clothe his limbs and

coat on his back is

of cold weather, to se

de the city,-a wh

he charcoal wagon a

,-hungry: the su

south of the Market, at l

prancing horsemen. W

a yellow coat and a

written warrant: on their t

and curse the oxen, leadi

wagon of

a thousa

take it away, the woo

ed silk and a sin

tied to the oxen's

agon o

POLI

City to sell the

ed by some trees

there came a

ale with a stran

ations, waiting

ide, but he did

asked the pe

d what had ha

this was a Pr

es were like the

wance was ten

y the Emperor ca

s called to a m

ished to the cou

he Counsello

changed betwee

he grass of the

s, a road that le

ace among the

made a "coup" t

N WITH THE

e on Mil

old man-four-s

the hair of his eyebrow

his great-grandchildren, h

ans on their shoulders;

many years had passed

se of the injury, ho

born and reared in the

birth-a wise reign;

Pear-Tree Garden to the

nner and lance; not

f T'ien-pao[71] and

each house,-on

he lot fell, where

ey, a thousand mil

at in Yün-nan there

om the pepper-trees, p

ded across, the water

entered the water, t

o the south of my village the

athers and mothers; hus

in expeditions ag

who are sent out,

ld, was then

re written down in the r

e night not daring

uge stone and dashe

and waving the ban

I should not be sent

inews wounded coul

to bear pain, if on

er since; it was

ugh destroyed,-

ter nights when the

ll day's dawn I ca

eping f

ll thing

of being alive when

ears ago, at the

d my soul hovered by the b

dered in Yün-nan, alw

n thousand soldiers,

old man

ou listen t

ou not

ister of K'ai-yüan

xploits, lest a spirit of

e you n

ister of T'ien-Pao

perial favour, sta

ld win the war, people

broken arm in the v

.D. 74

713

orious mistress of Min

OAT AT CHIU-K'OU TEN

huge waves block t

r and difficulty; wh

dly career I wande

iver crossing, I am sto

odden in the rain the

ts that come with the fo

ime flies, and my s

boat at Chiu-k'ou

: READING YüA

my hand and read th

ed: the candle is lo

guttering candle sti

driven by the wind, str

G AT HS

o P

1

brings into view t

he western wall of th

l in my solitary boat

ainy sands, while the

2

o Hsün-yang: how my

of Yü Liang's[74] tower

eafless and withered,-

ses are hidden low a

ter grass, are too we

ttle and thatch let the

ed-wheeled coaches driv

le, these civil people, t

A.D. 340.

ING IN THE

ng men that has not

consists in w

ay from the thou

rmity still r

I look at a f

at I meet a

e and recite a

hough a God had

day I was banis

have lived am

n I have finis

the road to th

on the banks

my hands a gree

startles the va

birds all c

e a laughing-sto

e that is unfre

MIGRANT "YEN

n the tenth year,[76]

ith ice and the forests b

hungry and cold, wen

migrant "yen," loudly

for grass; and rested o

to scale the sky; but it

spread a net and caugh

ands to the city-market

man of the North a

different kind, are eac

of an exiled bird wo

set you free, and you f

the clouds, tell me,

ou, do not fly to the

rebel bands[78] that

d armoured men have lo

rebel army have grown old

ave grown so small, the

hungry plight, will sho

ody those long feathers and

, the poet's

His first win

he weight

evolt of W

PAINTER WHO DE

ly splashing

m getting wri

waste the momen

ithered limbs

the Palace o

e not been fresc

d on a foot of

with a portrai

the T'ang dynasty, where meritorious

ARA

ard that such-

y tell me that s

cquaintances mor

ge and passed to t

gone I shall

e for ever fin

e left,-where

attered,-a thou

wn and loved thr

of my hand-how

fects of T'u

vince-just t

h other we are

World rolled like a

feasts and fro

d vanished, brin

meet and drink

gaze into eac

süan-liang (d. 833), Liu Yü-hsi

TOPMOST PEAK OF THE

the Incense

red what my eyes a

etained by off

st I got a c

epers, I clung t

et-weary with g

th me three o

nds dared no

ed the topmost c

nded, my soul ro

eath me-ten t

stood on, onl

austed the scope of

lize the widene

e River looked n

smaller than

the dust of the

imbs: I cannot

ement,[81] I heav

d head, came back

retirement

BAMBO

e is a land of

spring fill the

oodman cuts an

down to sell at

in proportion a

ings, I buy a

ots in a grea

up along wit

les broken,-lik

n opened,-lik

y I eat them

me I have not

I was livin

give me enough

as many shoot

f the south-wind

ED CO

present

cock

e the peach-

ith the sp

to it what

arned and

a cage wit

t it up

ER

nch-one

up-two c

ead, I see t

lanting to t

py regret the sho

sad tire of th

earts are devoid

, regardless of "

ENTERING THE

e was being towed up t

tain ten thou

r a thousand

en, walled by

the passage of a

a straight

slands bloc

t the walls are

nd white w

s are like a

ocks resembl

fast and cann

ess, three hun

der, the twist

rous hold of th

p-the whole

hangs on t

ying "He that has

s through the lands

eve that since

ck none have dro

I, born in e

ilure,[86] ask a

that these un

t last in an u

ee Ode

istance to

ngerous

f civi

to his renew

ROM HSüN-YANG AND

n the mountains

en I was statio

d the fewness of f

enly,-bearing

s, with nothing

-relegated to

rge, flanked by pr

nd the passage o

ows that toss and

ts of Pa rese

they fill the moun

hese I cannot h

h anyone who is ev

RS ON THE EAST

n Governor

and bought fl

t on the bank to th

ht whatever h

ther peach, ap

its, all mixe

ches, flowering

season coming

ke the fertile

rs hang like

ers gleam like

ees cannot bear

ds also come

flows an ever

s built a littl

p the flagstones

e wind, I raise

hes screen my he

uds fall dow

ng, alone si

at the moon is lev

Pa do not ca

g no one has

General, alone wi

and will not mov

IL

en ci

x years old, is cal

three,-little

ng to learn to

lready recite p

y play clingin

leep pillowed a

did you reach t

ust when my ye

draw our feel

asily give t

vintage at la

in the end b

the bonds of l

to a load of s

rld is bound b

k that I alone

ING

right in front

igh and the lea

he distant

this, dimly

I took kni

nd I lopped th

leaves fall a

ills came be

when clouds o

hrough, the bl

face of a frie

after an ag

ame a gentle

birds flew ba

d I gazed to t

ered, my though

none that has no

is none but mixe

did not love the

ill,-to see t

BY A FRIEND

o long that I do

window, evening-

in the grasse

rows morning an

rise and lean h

towards the door

a friend who is

ad gone specia

h and placed it i

and I leaned on t

was better tha

lings came back t

CHOW: ANCHORED ON

and much grievin

ht and looks ba

t with moonlight th

with dew that ha

the river grows b

mn,-the nights l

have slept amid

have not reac

HE NIGHT A

up at J

l young wh

,-forty y

ayed for the ni

y, I was only e

I am turne

to the times of

med, still they

es have all

lage none of my

t streets and buil

vel and level c

d, the waters

-flow in the

ILVER

he sends a silver spoon to his niece A-kuei, whom he had b

ice my heart is

it wasn't that w

ad to leave Mis

s that tears f

ought to be

, please s

packed and sen

f me and eat up

N TO THE POE

a white-hair

resent of a bl

t still sits

are gone to th

old, but stil

and will never

l the moon is

ur tomb are swayed

BI

should suffer from cold w

to a single body

big rug ten tho

could cover up eve

UNK, BECOMING SO

at yellow dusk and

went for a walk, lean

vinous complexion, soot

he ocean moon, accompan

return to the beams, we

w, just going out, sud

wn came, still my th

g sounded like the musi

THE FUTILI

all of a priest'

time when I w

w when I am

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