The Original Text and Translation of Li Qingzhao's Classic Plum

A piece of plum, red lotus root, fragrant residual jade autumn.

Song Dynasty: Li Qingzhao

Lotus root is fragrant, and jade is lingering in autumn. Gently untie Luo Shang and go to Lan alone. Who sent the brocade book? The word goose returns, and the moon is full of the west building.

Flowers bloom and fall, and flowing water gurgles. One kind of lovesickness, two places of leisure. There is no way to eliminate this situation, only frown and mind.

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The pink lotus has withered, the fragrance has dispersed, and the smooth jade bamboo mat has the coolness of autumn. Untie the silk skirt, put on casual clothes and go aboard alone. Looking up at the distant sky, where white clouds are rolling, who will send the brocade book? By the time the geese flew back, the moonlight had spread all over the west building.

Falling flowers alone, flowing water alone. We all miss each other, but we can't talk to each other, so we have to be unhappy alone. This lovesick sorrow can't be sent away. It just disappeared from the wrinkled brow and was faintly entangled in my heart.

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A prune is also known as "a flower", "before a wax plum", "fragrance of a wax plum", "spring of a wax plum", "jade autumn" and "drunkenness". With Zhou Bangyan's "One Prune, One Prune, All Kinds of Beauty" as the main body, it has 60 words with two tones, the first six sentences and the last six sentences, and three levels of rhyme. In addition, there are 60 words with two tones, six sentences after the first six sentences and five rhymes; Two-tone 59 words, five sentences in the first paragraph and six sentences in the second paragraph. Red lotus root: red lotus.

Diàn: exquisite bamboo mat, smooth as jade.

Cháng: The clothes worn by the ancients also refer to clothes.

Blue boat: This refers to the boat.

Brochure: Su Hui of the former Qin Dynasty once wrote a tapestry poem "A Picture of Xuan Ji" and gave it to her husband Tao Dou. It has 840 words and can be read repeatedly, with sadness between the lines. Later generations called their wives and husbands brocade characters or brocade books; It is also known as credibility.

Goose word: Goose often flies with the word "one" or "person". Because of the word "goose" in the poem, it is called a flock of geese.

West wing full moon: refers to the west wing full moon when Hongyan flies back.

A kind of lovesickness, two places of leisure: it means that we both miss each other very much, but we can't talk to each other, so we have to be alone and depressed.

I just frowned, but I took it to heart: it means that the clouds on my eyebrows just disappeared, and my heart began to worry again.