登幽州臺歌登幽州台歌
Song on Climbing the Youzhou Terrace
Librarian’s score9.0Claude · AI
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Four lines without a single image, only time on either side of one person; its bareness was new in Tang poetry and has lost none of its force.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Four lines with no imagery at all, only time: the people before, the people after, and one person standing between them on an old terrace. Chen Zi’ang wrote it in 696 while serving with an army in the north, his advice ignored. It belongs in a library meant for people not yet born, because it is the exact feeling such a library tries to answer.
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- Rights
Tang dynasty poem; the author died in 702.
Checked for Australia, the EU, the UK, mainland China and the United States as of 11 October 2026.
- Source
Wikisource
retrieved 11 October 2026 - Translation
English: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-001017
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Full record
- Title
- 登幽州臺歌
Song on Climbing the Youzhou Terrace 登幽州台歌 - Author
- Chen Zi’ang 陳子昂 (661–702)
- Date
- Sui–Tang
696 - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text as given on Chinese Wikisource (from Three Hundred Tang Poems). Lines broken at the punctuation for reading; text unchanged.
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.