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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Seeing Off Zheng Qian (18) Who Has Been Banished 361 5.
35 Seeing Off Zheng Qian (18) Who Has Been Banished to the Post of Revenue Manager in Taizhou.
I Feel Bad That, Nearing Old Age, This Has Happened Because He Fell into the Hands of the Rebels.
I Failed to be Able to Part Face to Face, But My Feelings Are Revealed in the Poem Master Zheng, useless chu tree, his locks turned to white silk,1 after drinking he always claims that he is an old painter.
Ten thousand leagues, it pains my heart, this day of stern banishment, 4 approaching death in our hundred-year span, at the time of the Restoration.
In confused haste he has gone to set off on that long journey, unexpectedly it happened that I was too late for your parting feast.
Even if with you, sir, this parting is forever, 8 below on the roads of the Nine Springs we will always have times to share friendship.
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36 The La Festival2 On the La Festival in ordinary years warm weather is still far away, this year on the La Festival the ice has entirely melted.
Subduing the color of snow the yellow daylily returns, 4 in the light of spring leaking through there are fronds of willows.
To have ale as I please I will plan a good night to get drunk, I return home, having just concluded dawn court at Zichen Palace.
a chap-balm for lips and face cream came with imperial grace, 8 in an azure tube and silver ewer descending from the nine-tiered heavens.
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2 The eighth day of the twelfth month.
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM A Companion Piece For Drafter Jia Zhi?
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Dawn Court at Daming Palace?
363 Jia Zhi ?
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The companion piece by Du Fu survives, along with the companion pieces by Wang Wei and Cen Shen.
Jia Zhi, Dawn Court at Daming Palace, for My Colleagues in the Two Ministries Silver candles scent the heavens, stretching along on purple streets, colors of spring in the Forbidden City, lush in the morning.
A thousand fronds of pliant willows hang by blue chain-patterned gates, 4 with a hundred warbling orioles circling Jianzhang Palace.
The sounds of waist-strung swords follow steps on the pavements of�jade, bodies in caps and gowns tease wisps of incense from imperial braziers. Together we bathe in waves of Grace by Phoenix Pool, 8 at every dawn court dipping our brushes to serve our Lord and Ruler. 5. 37 A Companion Piece For Drafter Jia Zhi? s ? Dawn Court at Daming Palace? 1 Night? s fifth watch, the water-clock? s sound speeds its morning marker, colors of spring in the ninefold palace make immortal peaches drunk. Sun warm on pennons and streamers, dragons and serpents stir, 4 by palace halls the breeze is light, swallows and sparrows fly high. Dawn court done, the scented smoke you carry filling your sleeves, the poem finished, pearls and jade are right on your flourished brush. If you want to see generations in charge of lovely silken lines,2 8 to this day on the pool there is phoenix down. 3 1 Original note: ? The Drafter? s father was in charge of edicts? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . 2 The ? lovely silken lines? is the rhetorical elegance in drafting edicts 3 ? Phoenix Pool? was associated with the Secretariat, thus with the grand councilor. Jia Zhi was a Drafter in the Secretariat (zhongshu sheren ? ? ? ? ), and Jia Zhi had referred to Phoenix Pool in his poem. Jia Zhi? s father, Jia Ceng, had also held the same post, thus ? to this day? suggests the son is continuing his father? s achievements.
The sounds of waist-strung swords follow steps on the pavements of�jade, bodies in caps and gowns tease wisps of incense from imperial braziers. Together we bathe in waves of Grace by Phoenix Pool, 8 at every dawn court dipping our brushes to serve our Lord and Ruler. 5. 37 A Companion Piece For Drafter Jia Zhi? s ? Dawn Court at Daming Palace? 1 Night? s fifth watch, the water-clock? s sound speeds its morning marker, colors of spring in the ninefold palace make immortal peaches drunk. Sun warm on pennons and streamers, dragons and serpents stir, 4 by palace halls the breeze is light, swallows and sparrows fly high. Dawn court done, the scented smoke you carry filling your sleeves, the poem finished, pearls and jade are right on your flourished brush. If you want to see generations in charge of lovely silken lines,2 8 to this day on the pool there is phoenix down. 3 1 Original note: ? The Drafter? s father was in charge of edicts? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . 2 The ? lovely silken lines? is the rhetorical elegance in drafting edicts 3 ? Phoenix Pool? was associated with the Secretariat, thus with the grand councilor. Jia Zhi was a Drafter in the Secretariat (zhongshu sheren ? ? ? ? ), and Jia Zhi had referred to Phoenix Pool in his poem. Jia Zhi? s father, Jia Ceng, had also held the same post, thus ? to this day? suggests the son is continuing his father? s achievements.
