一剪梅（紅藕香殘玉簟秋）一剪梅（红藕香残玉簟秋）
To the Tune Yijianmei: The Red Lotus Fades
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The opening uses the familiar furniture of the boudoir lyric, but the close, longing that leaves the brow only to rise in the heart, is exact and lasting.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Traditionally read as written while her husband, Zhao Mingcheng, was away, early in their marriage. Wild geese, flying in formations that look like written characters, were the old bearers of letters. The ending is famous for describing so precisely a feeling that will not leave: down from the brow, and straight back up into the heart.
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- Rights
Song dynasty lyric (ci); the author died around 1155.
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- Source
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English: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-001063
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- Title
- 一剪梅（紅藕香殘玉簟秋）
To the Tune Yijianmei: The Red Lotus Fades 一剪梅（红藕香残玉簟秋） - Author
- Li Qingzhao 李清照 (1084–c. 1155)
- Date
- Song
early 12th 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.
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