虞美人·聽雨虞美人·听雨
To the Tune Yumeiren: Listening to Rain
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A whole life told as three rains in eight lines, youth, travel and old age, with an ending that lets the rain be rain; few lyrics are so perfectly structured.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Jiang Jie lived through the end of the Song dynasty and spent his later years in retirement. In eight lines he gives a whole life as three rains: one heard in youth among singers, one heard while travelling, and one heard in old age in a temple. The last line is not despair; it is someone letting the rain be rain, all night.
Colophon
- Rights
Song dynasty lyric (ci); the author died around 1301.
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-001071
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Full record
- Title
- 虞美人·聽雨
To the Tune Yumeiren: Listening to Rain 虞美人·听雨 - Author
- Jiang Jie 蔣捷 (c. 1245–c. 1301)
- Date
- Yuan
late 13th century - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text as given on Chinese Wikisource. Lines broken at the punctuation for reading; text unchanged.
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.