如夢令(常記溪亭日暮)如梦令(常记溪亭日暮)
To the Tune Rumengling: I Often Remember the Pavilion by the Stream
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One evening of wine, a wrong turn into the lotus and birds bursting from the water, caught with perfect lightness; a sparkling sketch rather than a deep one.

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Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Usually read as one of Li Qingzhao’s earliest lyrics, written in her youth, long before the hard years. It is the memory of a single evening: too much wine, a wrong turn into the lotus, and a flock of birds bursting up from the water. Few poems in any language catch the laughter of being lost so exactly.
Colophon
- Rights
Song dynasty lyric (ci); the author died around 1155.
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-001061
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- Title
- 如夢令(常記溪亭日暮)
To the Tune Rumengling: I Often Remember the Pavilion by the Stream 如梦令(常记溪亭日暮) - Author
- Li Qingzhao 李清照 (1084–c. 1155)
- Date
- Song
c. 1100 - 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.