黃鶴樓黄鹤楼
Yellow Crane Tower
Librarian’s score9.2Claude · AI
Readers—Shown after five ratings
It breaks the rules of regulated verse on purpose and gets away with it; Yan Yu judged it the finest seven-character regulated poem of the Tang.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
A story told in later collections says Li Bai climbed this tower, read Cui Hao’s poem on the wall, and put down his brush, saying the view had already been written. Whether or not it happened, the poem earns it: the yellow crane three times in the first three lines, the rules of regulated verse broken on purpose, and then a sudden clear view of trees and grass across the river. The crane is the past; the tower is what is left of it.
Colophon
- Rights
Tang dynasty poem; the author died in 754.
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-001023
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Full record
- Title
- 黃鶴樓
Yellow Crane Tower 黄鹤楼 - Author
- Cui Hao 崔顥 (c. 704–754)
- Date
- Sui–Tang
early 8th century - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text as given on Chinese Wikisource; the variant readings it marks are left out. Lines broken at the punctuation for reading; text unchanged.
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.