Nature and Landscape — Page 3
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Poems in this hub
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. Wang Wan Mooring below North Solid Hill 次北固山下 Wang Wan’s boat reaches a river landscape where daylight and spring arrive before night and the old year have quite ended. Meng Haoran Thoughts on the River in Early Cold 早寒江上有懷 Falling leaves and migrating geese sharpen a traveler’s longing, but the river crossing remains uncertain. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Du Fu Climbing High 登高 An immense autumn river view is set against illness, age, and the narrowing life of a traveler. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Du Fu Climbing Yueyang Tower 登岳陽樓 A long-imagined view of Dongting Lake opens onto immense water and unresolved human distress. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. 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. Du Fu Thoughts on a Traveling Night 旅夜書懷 A tall mast under immense stars gives way to the image of a single gull between heaven and earth. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Wei A Farewell: Returning to the Mountains 送別 A parting drink and a few questions give way to the endless clouds of a chosen retreat. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. 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. 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. Du Fu Seeking Flowers Alone by the River: VI 江畔獨步尋花七絕句·其六 A flower-heavy path becomes a place of lingering butterflies and repeated birdsong. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Li Shangyin Frost and Moon 霜月 An autumn night becomes a contest between frost and moonlight. Follow the poem's transformation of cold brightness into a meeting of celestial women. Wen Tingyun Early Departure from Shang Mountain 商山早行 A traveler leaves an inn before sunrise. Read the famous sequence of rooster, moon, footprints, and frost, then follow its turn toward a dream of home. Du Fu Welcome Rain on a Spring Night 春夜喜雨 Du Fu’s Welcome Rain on a Spring Night, with pinyin and English notes on timely growth, one boat light, and the wet flowers imagined for dawn in Chengdu. Wang Wei Bird Calls in the Ravine 鳥鳴澗 Wang Wei’s Bird Calls in the Ravine, with pinyin and English notes on spring gui blossoms, moonrise, and the intermittent calls that make stillness audible. Wang Wei Magnolia Hollow 辛夷塢 Magnolia blossoms open and fall in a ravine without an audience. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wang Wei In the Mountains 山中 A rainless mountain path seems to wet the traveler through the density of its green. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Cen Shen Spring at the Mountain Room: Open to the Season 山房春事二首（其一） Bees, butterflies, willow branches, and falling blossoms cross into Cen Shen’s room on a warm spring day. Wang Wei A Question about the Plum Tree 雜詩三首·其二 All the news of home narrows to one question about blossoms beside a window. Read the Chinese, pinyin, word meanings, and original English translation. Wen Tingyun Crossing the Watershed 過分水嶺 A stream has accompanied a traveler for three days through the mountains. Read how its sound through the night becomes a voice at their parting. Cen Shen Spring at the Mountain Room: Liang Garden 山房春事二首（其二） Cen Shen’s trees repeat their flowering in Liang Garden without knowing that the people are gone, in a text with a consequential variant. Wei Yingwu The West Stream at Chuzhou 滁州西澗 Wei Yingwu’s West Stream at Chuzhou, with pinyin and English notes on secluded grass, a hidden oriole, swift spring water, and an unattended ferry boat. Wang Wei Autumn Evening in the Mountains 山居秋暝 Wang Wei’s Autumn Evening in the Mountains, with pinyin and English notes on moonlight, washing women, a fishing boat, and reasons to remain after spring.