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Enjoy the Chinese poetry
12 years ago
I love the Chinese poetry., although it's very difficult to translate Chinese poetry.
But I think it's very interesting.
This poem is from Dream of Red Mansions,
Tell you the cause & effect is a pair that you cannot break.
And don't care the rich so much
just a word can be subject: Nothing
A poem of pessimism is not interesting, but I think all the poem just tell you the beautiful world (or balabala...) is not reality
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【飛鳥各投林】
為官的，家業凋零；
富貴的，金銀散盡；
有恩的，死裡逃生；
無情的，分明報應。
欠命的，命已還；
欠淚的，淚已盡。
冤冤相報實非輕，分離聚合皆前定。
欲知命短問前生，老來富貴也真僥倖。
看破的，遁入空門；癡迷的，枉送了性命。
好一似食盡鳥投林，落了片白茫茫大地真乾淨。
The birds return to the forest.( Nothing)
The leader, will lose all he built.
The rich one, will lose all he made.
Who grace, will be survived
Who ruthless , will get retribution
Who killed someone, his life will return to the man.
Who got the water, he will return the tears to the benefactor.
Ending and Beginning is like a couple, you cannot break.
If you want to know the future, please think the first time.
An elderly still get luckiness, just lucky.
You know the world is nothing , so don't care.
But if you are still stupid, life in vain!
Like the birds had eaten all the foods and return to the forest.
There is no reserve!
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There is a translation from H. B. Joly . I think it will be easy to understand .
The flying birds each perch upon the trees! The family estates of those in official positions will fade! The gold and silver of the rich and honoured will be scattered! those who will have conferred benefit will, even in death, find the means of escape! those devoid of human feelings will reap manifest retribution! Those indebted for a life will make, in due time, payment with their lives; those indebted for tears have already (gone) to exhaust their tears! Mutual injuries will be revenged in no light manner! Separation and reunion will both alike be determined by predestination! You wish to know why your life will be short; look into your previous existence! Verily, riches and honours, which will come with old age, will likewise be a question of chance! Those who will hold the world in light esteem will retire within the gate of abstraction; while those who will be allured by enticement will have forfeited their lives (The Chia family will fulfil its destiny) as surely as birds take to the trees after they have exhausted all they had to eat, and which as they drop down will pile up a hoary, vast and lofty heap of dust, (leaving) indeed a void behind!
But I think it's very interesting.
This poem is from Dream of Red Mansions,
Tell you the cause & effect is a pair that you cannot break.
And don't care the rich so much
just a word can be subject: Nothing
A poem of pessimism is not interesting, but I think all the poem just tell you the beautiful world (or balabala...) is not reality
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【飛鳥各投林】
為官的，家業凋零；
富貴的，金銀散盡；
有恩的，死裡逃生；
無情的，分明報應。
欠命的，命已還；
欠淚的，淚已盡。
冤冤相報實非輕，分離聚合皆前定。
欲知命短問前生，老來富貴也真僥倖。
看破的，遁入空門；癡迷的，枉送了性命。
好一似食盡鳥投林，落了片白茫茫大地真乾淨。
The birds return to the forest.( Nothing)
The leader, will lose all he built.
The rich one, will lose all he made.
Who grace, will be survived
Who ruthless , will get retribution
Who killed someone, his life will return to the man.
Who got the water, he will return the tears to the benefactor.
Ending and Beginning is like a couple, you cannot break.
If you want to know the future, please think the first time.
An elderly still get luckiness, just lucky.
You know the world is nothing , so don't care.
But if you are still stupid, life in vain!
Like the birds had eaten all the foods and return to the forest.
There is no reserve!
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There is a translation from H. B. Joly . I think it will be easy to understand .
The flying birds each perch upon the trees! The family estates of those in official positions will fade! The gold and silver of the rich and honoured will be scattered! those who will have conferred benefit will, even in death, find the means of escape! those devoid of human feelings will reap manifest retribution! Those indebted for a life will make, in due time, payment with their lives; those indebted for tears have already (gone) to exhaust their tears! Mutual injuries will be revenged in no light manner! Separation and reunion will both alike be determined by predestination! You wish to know why your life will be short; look into your previous existence! Verily, riches and honours, which will come with old age, will likewise be a question of chance! Those who will hold the world in light esteem will retire within the gate of abstraction; while those who will be allured by enticement will have forfeited their lives (The Chia family will fulfil its destiny) as surely as birds take to the trees after they have exhausted all they had to eat, and which as they drop down will pile up a hoary, vast and lofty heap of dust, (leaving) indeed a void behind!
I love China
Lately I've developed a big interest in taoism and I've been reading the Tao te King every now and then, which helps me a lot to find solace within my mind.