A small dictionary of classical Chinese poetry
Thousand-year-old poems, in plain words.
300 famous Chinese poems with pinyin and plain English translations.
Plus names taken from their lines.
Today's poem
October 27 · Frost’s Descent, the 18th solar term: the first frosts.
青山隱隱水迢迢秋盡江南草未凋
Blue hills faint, faint, waters far, far away;autumn ends in the south, but the grass has not withered.
“For Han Chuo in Yangzhou” — Du Mu
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