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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

Songc. 110033 characters1 minTranslated by Claude

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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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常記溪亭日暮,常记溪亭日暮,沉醉不知歸路。沉醉不知归路。興盡晚回舟,兴尽晚回舟,誤入藕花深處。误入藕花深处。爭渡,争渡,爭渡,争渡,驚起一灘鷗鷺。惊起一滩鸥鹭。
常記溪亭日暮,常记溪亭日暮,I often remember the pavilion by the stream at sunset,
沉醉不知歸路。沉醉不知归路。so drunk we could not find the way home.
興盡晚回舟,兴尽晚回舟,Our fun spent, late, we turned the boat back
誤入藕花深處。误入藕花深处。and strayed deep into the lotus.
爭渡,争渡,Row hard,
爭渡,争渡,row hard,
驚起一灘鷗鷺。惊起一滩鸥鹭。and up from the shoal flew a startle of gulls and egrets.
A black-and-white photograph of a rowing boat among water lilies on still water. One person rows from the stern while the other leans out over the side to lift a lily from the water; tall reeds close in behind them.
Peter Henry Emerson, Gathering Water-Lilies, 1886 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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.

Tags: MemoryRiversChildhood and youthBirds

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Song dynasty lyric (ci); the author died around 1155.

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English: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0

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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
Songc. 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.
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No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.

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