The Moon Takes the Bow: The Longest Fight in the Sky, Scored on Love, Fear, Respect, and Attention
Two fighters have been circling each other since before anyone kept records, and the purse has never changed hands: the human gaze. In one corner burns a furnace so vast that something like a million Earths could rattle around inside it, the engine behind every green leaf and every heartbeat on this planet. In the other corner floats a charcoal-colored rock, airless and dead, throwing back about twelve percent of the light that hits it. On paper the match is a slaughter. In practice the rock has been taking rounds for ten thousand years, and the strangest fact on the whole card is a matter of scheduling, since only one of these two shows up for both shifts. […]#tangpoetry — Public Fediverse posts
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Shaanxi Culture Amazes Paris, Enriching China-France Cultural Exchange
PARIS, June 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — China-France cultural exchange has been enriched with new vitality as two events were…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #China #culturaltraditions #CultureDay #IntangibleCulturalHeritage #Marie-PierreBoucherHollier #Notre-DamedeParis #Paris #ShaanxiProvince #SilkRoadsProgramme #TangPoetry #thePeople'sGovernmentsofTongchuanCity #UNESCOHeadquarters
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For more Li He, Master of Demon Gorge did an episode on him: https://modgpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1788225/episodes/16799639-li-he-the-ghost-of-poetry
DeGruyter have also published English translations of his poetry as Open Access, together with a biographical essay by Xiaofei Tian: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501504716/html
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While sitting outside to rest my hand, I finally got around to reading @llonkrebboj’s exquisite Li He fic, Neither moths nor the silverfish: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52274104
Please do read it if you want to visit Tang Luoyang and Chang’an, to sit in vividly-imagined scenes that might well have been the seeds for immortal verses, to have your heartstrings plucked for a 24-year-old youth who feels his days are numbered, or to meet a lovely donkey OC.
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Greatly enjoying this wonderful interview with the poet and translator Susan Wan Dolling, on the Chinese Literature Podcast: https://chineseliteraturepodcast.libsyn.com/interview-with-susan-wan-dolling-translator-of-chinese-poetry
Here’s Wan Dolling’s website: https://sites.google.com/view/susanwandolling/home
I certainly hope to buy her recent collections of Tang and Song poetry!
#SusanWanDolling #ChinesePoetry #ChineseLiterature #TangPoetry #SongPoetry #translation #podcast #ChineseLiteraturePodcast
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✨ Explore Chinese culture through poetic GPTs rooted in native sources.
Each one guides you gently—through wisdom, idioms, poetry, or the I Ching.🧧 I CHING (易经通) → https://chatgpt.com/g/g-68928be500ac81919e2a994f423b274c
🀄 CHENGYU (一日一成语) → https://chatgpt.com/g/g-68a50f9fe4148191861c44c484be1bb9
🌸 THREE PILLARS (三宝试着) → https://chatgpt.com/g/g-68a10a63d858819182aff9bc14ef59ca
🌟 TANG POETRY (小金星星) → https://chatgpt.com/g/g-689d20839c8081918a0878955ab1fa76
#chinese #iching #tangpoetry #chineselanguage #mandarin #chatgpt #china
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Listening to this episode of the How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast, on Shangguan Wan’er!
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Alert: the De Gruyter Library of Chinese Humanities has released a new Open Access book! The Finest Souls of Our Rivers and Alps: A High Tang Poetry Anthology is translated by Paul Kroll and contains 230 poems by 24 different poets.
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111636177/html
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#PennedPossibilities 622 — Does your MC read? If so, what sort of things? Do they have a preferred genre of choice?
Ume: “Of course I read, don’t all authors? I especially like yuri and josei romances. Poetry is nice too. I’m not very good at writing poetry, that’s Tomo’s department. But I love reading it. I was just reading some by Liu Yuxi (刘禹锡) today.”
Here is one I really liked:
Green, O green is the willow, placid, peaceful the flow;
Hark and I hear on the river, songs from my love, my beau.
To the east, the sun is up, to the west, drizzles persist;
Though they say the sun is naught, to me, the sun is aglow.(Translated by Andrew W.F. Wong (Huang Hongfa)
https://www.cn-poetry.com/liuyuxi-poetry/bamboo-twigs-song-1.html#NMPP #KonbiniIdol #Poetry #ChinesePoetry #LiuYuxi #TangPoetry #TangDynasty
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Tang Dynasty fan culture!
From The Banished Immortal, Ha Jin’s biography of Li Bai.
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New post on Stories from a Burning House: in which we meet mopey Zen collectives, Daoist murderesses (alleged), bumptious exam candidates, and brassy dames, and a loudmouth gets what's coming to him.
https://www.burninghou.se/p/susu-does-the-dozens
#ChineseLiterature #TangDynasty #TangPoetry #ChinesePoetry #Translation #寒山 #魚玄機 #王蘇蘇 #北里志
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This is a long shot, but would anyone here be able to provide a translation of this Tang era Chinese poem by Chen Biao (陈标,陳標) called《江南行》? In simplified characters:
水光春色满江天，蘋叶风吹荷叶钱。
香蚁翠旗临岸市，艳娥红袖渡江船。
晓惊白鹭联翩雪，浪蹙青茭潋滟烟。
不怕江洲芳草暮，待将秋兴折湖莲。#TangPoetry
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Li Bai -- To Du Fu, from Shaqiu
(written after Li Bai got kicked out of Chang'an)And how have I been spending my time?
I've been here in Shaqiu, away from everything.
There are old trees by the city wall,
And I hear autumn in their branches night and day.
Shandong wine can't get me drunk.
The local poets leave me cold.
My thoughts of you are like the River Wen,
Surging and churning ever southward.我來竟何事？高臥沙丘城
城邊有古樹，日夕連秋聲
魯酒不可醉，齊歌空復情
思君若汶水，浩蕩寄南徵 -
HS 99, which I like to think of as "former gifted children stfu challenge":
蹭蹬諸貧士， 飢寒成至極。
閑居好作詩， 札札用心力。
賤他言孰采， 勸君休歎息。
題安糊䴵上， 乞狗也不喫。Broke scholars who can't catch a break,
Hungry and cold as can be,
Using your down-time to versify,
Pouring your hearts out on every strip of paper --Low as you are, who'd listen to your words?
I'm telling you: Quit moaning and groaning.
If you wrote your verses on a bun,
A starving dog would shun it. -
Han Shan 55 is good too:
桃花欲經夏， 風月催不待。
訪覓漢時人， 能無一箇在。
朝朝花遷落， 歲歲人移改。
今日揚塵處， 昔時為大海。Peach blossoms long to last the summer through,
but wind and moon compel them ceaselessly.
Look for the people of the Han --
there's not a one of them alive today.
Dawn after dawn the flowers aged and fell;
Year in, year out, the people moved and changed.
There, where your foot kicks up the dust:
That once was sea. -
Han Shan, poem 80:
徒勞說三史，浪自看五經。
洎老檢黃籍，依前注白丁。
筮遭連蹇卦，生主虛危星。
不及河邊樹，年年一度青。In vain I read the Histories;
my efforts with the Classics all were wasted.
I'll be on tax rolls til I'm old,
and marked down always as a nobody.
Cast my fortune -- all I get is "Don't."
A whole life governed by ill-omened stars.
I should have been a tree beside a river.
At least I'd get to flourish once a year. -
There should be no doubt in future about who is responsible. 😝
@bhargavi_lawbookskettlebells @chenthil @poongabook
#bookstadon #books #poetry #ChinesePoetry #TangPoetry #translations
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I just got to know #TangPoetry and Li Po (Li Bai) through an #InOurTime Podcast (#BBC4). Give it a listen, it’s very interesting and they are reciting poetry in the original Chinese.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00174d0?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon
Reverence-Pavilion Mountain, Sitting Alone
Birds have vanished into deep skies.
A last cloud drifts away, all idleness.Inexhaustible, this Mountain and I
gaze at each other, it alone remaining.Li Po (Li Bai), translation by David Hinton (The Selected Poems of Li Po)
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Just in awe of these new #translations of #TangPoetry by Wong May and wow, the Afterword, a #longpoem itself.
In the Same Light, from #Carcanet -
No water is enough when you have crossed the sea,
No cloud is beautiful but that which crowns the peak.
Passing through the flowers, my heart is unmoved,
Perhaps because of Daoism, perhaps because of you.Yuan Zhen, 779 - 831 CE
(couldn't identify the translator)
ஆழ்கடலைக் கண்ணுற்ற பின் ஓடு்ம் நதிகள் பொருட்டல்ல.
மலை தழுவும் மேகம் கண்டபின் பிற மேகங்கள் பொருட்டல்ல.
வழி நீளும் மலர்க்கூட்டங்கள் என் இதயத்துக்குப் பொருட்டல்ல.
காாணம் தத்துவ விசாரமோ, நங்கை உன் நினைவோ.