Poems of the Masters by Pine Red

Author:Pine, Red [Pine, Red]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: nepalifiction, TPB, Poetry
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Visiting a Private Garden without Success

YEH SHAO-WENG

It must be because he hates clogs on his moss

I knocked ten times still his gate stayed closed

but spring can’t be kept locked in a garden

a branch of red blossoms reached past the wall

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Li Pai (701–762) wrote this poem around 740 while visiting the sites associated with the founders of the Confucian tradition in Shantung province. In addition to paying his respects at the graves of Confucius and Mencius in Chufu and Tsouhsien, he also traveled to Lanling near the southeastern border of Shantung. This was the location of the grave of Hsun-tzu (third century B.C.), who is credited with establishing the teachings of Confucius at court. Lanling was also known for a wine infused with turmeric, or Curcuma longa, which was fragrant and reddish yellow in color and which was mixed with the wine drunk on ceremonial occasions during Confucius’s day. To establish their reputations and connections, poets did quite a bit of traveling. Thus, much of Chinese poetry is dominated by the sentiments associated with being away from home.

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