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Jueju — Page 3
絕句
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Poems in this hub
Li Qingzhao Summer Quatrain: Remembering Xiang Yu 夏日絕句 Li Qingzhao looks back to Xiang Yu through a forceful judgment of heroic stature. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Liu Zongyuan After Rain, Walking to the River Ferry 雨晴至江渡 After rain, a walker follows a path uncovered by receding water. Read how driftwood caught high in the trees reveals the force of the vanished flood. Wang Han Spring Thoughts of Home 春日歸思 Spring blossoms make Wang Han’s traveler imagine singing women and boats on Ruoye Stream, with glosses and notes on the final question. Zhang Xu Peach Blossom Stream 桃花谿 A bridge, a fishing boat, and drifting petals lead Zhang Xu’s speaker to ask where the hidden entrance lies. Liu Zongyuan Viewing Mountains with the Monk Haochu 與浩初上人同看山寄京華親故 Sharp coastal mountains bring thoughts of distant home. Read the startling wish to turn one body into many figures watching from separate peaks. Liu Zongyuan Banyan Leaves Fall in Liuzhou 柳州二月榕葉落盡偶題 Spring in Liuzhou brings falling leaves instead of familiar renewal. Explore how an unexpected local season deepens the speaker's unsettled feeling. Zhang Xu Keeping a Guest in the Mountains 山行留客 Zhang Xu answers a guest’s fear of rain with a playful reason to remain in the spring mountains. Zhang Xu A Spring Outing Meets Rain 春遊值雨 An evening rain postpones Zhang Xu’s garden outing, and the east wind receives a request to make tomorrow possible. Zhang Xu Boating on Clear Stream 清谿泛舟 A weary traveler reaches toward moonlight on a stream in Zhang Xu’s brief poem of an unexpectedly abundant evening. Du Mu Qingming 清明 Rain weighs on a traveler at Qingming until a question brings a distant gesture. Read how weather, distress, and a herdboy's answer shape four lines. Du Mu A Mountain Walk 山行 A traveler stops on a mountain road to admire autumn maples. Follow the choice to pause and the bold comparison between frost-red leaves and spring flowers. Du Mu Mooring on the Qinhuai 泊秦淮 A night mooring near a wine house brings an old court song across the water. Hear how present pleasure becomes entangled with a fallen dynasty. Wang Wan The Weaving Girl in a Leap Month 閏月七日織女 An intercalary seventh month gives Wang Wan a playful hope that the Weaving Girl may cross the sky twice in one year. Du Mu Autumn Evening 秋夕 A small fan, fireflies, and distant stars fill a cold palace evening. Read how quiet gestures suggest longing without giving the watcher a spoken complaint. Wang Changling Farewell at Hibiscus Tower: A Heart of Ice 芙蓉樓送辛漸二首（其一） Wang Changling’s Hibiscus Tower farewell in Chinese and English, with pinyin and notes on the dawn departure, a message to Luoyang, and the heart of ice in jade. Du Mu Spring South of the River 江南春 Orioles, blossoms, wine flags, and temples spread across Jiangnan. Follow the shift from a bright spring panorama to buildings half hidden by rain. Wang Changling Farewell at Hibiscus Tower: The River at Night 芙蓉樓送辛漸二首（其二） Clouds surround Danyang, and wine cannot dissolve a farewell in the second of Wang Changling’s Hibiscus Tower quatrains. Du Mu Red Cliff 赤壁 A broken weapon prompts an imagined alternative to a famous battle. See how wind, political power, and two women's possible fate become one sharp question. Wang Changling Beyond the Frontier: The Old Pass 出塞二首（其一） Qin moonlight and a Han pass compress centuries of unfinished return in Wang Changling’s frontier quatrain. Li Shangyin Night Rain: Sent North 夜雨寄北 Li Shangyin’s Night Rain Sent North, with Chinese text, pinyin, and English notes tracing return-date uncertainty into a hoped-for candlelit conversation. Wang Changling Beyond the Frontier: After the Battle 出塞二首（其二） A newly mounted horse, continuing drums, and an unwashed blade hold Wang Changling’s frontier scene just after combat. Li Shangyin Leyou Plain 樂遊原 An evening drive brings the speaker to an open plain and a setting sun. Explore the tension between the scene's beauty and the approach of night. Li Shangyin Chang’e 嫦娥 A candle fades as the morning stars recede. Read how an earthbound sleepless night opens into the imagined solitude of Chang'e in the moon. Wang Changling Gathering Lotus 采蓮曲二首（其二） Green skirts disappear into lotus leaves until a song reveals the people in Wang Changling’s second lotus-gathering song.