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漁家傲·記夢渔家傲·记梦

To the Tune Yujia’ao: Recording a Dream

Songc. 113062 characters1 minTranslated by Claude

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Li Qingzhao’s boldest lyric, a dream voyage up the Milky Way that sounds more like Su Shi than like her; striking and singular, if less inward than her best.

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天接雲濤連曉霧,天接云涛连晓雾,星河欲轉千帆舞。星河欲转千帆舞。彷佛夢魂歸帝所。仿佛梦魂归帝所。聞天語,闻天语,殷勤問我歸何處。殷勤问我归何处。
我報路長嗟日暮,我报路长嗟日暮,學詩漫有驚人句。学诗漫有惊人句。九萬里風鵬正舉。九万里风鹏正举。風休住,风休住,蓬舟吹取三山去。蓬舟吹取三山去。
天接雲濤連曉霧,天接云涛连晓雾,The sky meets the cloud-waves and the morning mist;
星河欲轉千帆舞。星河欲转千帆舞。the River of Stars is about to turn, a thousand sails dancing.
彷佛夢魂歸帝所。仿佛梦魂归帝所。My dreaming soul seems to return to the dwelling of heaven.
聞天語,闻天语,I hear heaven's voice
殷勤問我歸何處。殷勤问我归何处。asking me, kindly, where I am going home to.
我報路長嗟日暮,我报路长嗟日暮,I answer: the road is long, and I sigh that the day grows late;
學詩漫有驚人句。学诗漫有惊人句。I studied poetry, and have lines that startle, for nothing.
九萬里風鵬正舉。九万里风鹏正举。Ninety thousand li on the wind, the great roc is rising.
風休住,风休住,Wind, do not stop:
蓬舟吹取三山去。蓬舟吹取三山去。blow my little boat away to the Three Islands.

Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2

The boldest of Li Qingzhao’s lyrics, usually dated to the years after she fled south. She dreams of sailing up the Milky Way and being asked by heaven where she is going, and answers like a traveller who has outgrown the road. The roc rising on a wind of ninety thousand li comes from Zhuangzi, and the Three Islands are the islands of the immortals in the eastern sea.

Tags: Stars and the skyThe seaWillWords and writing

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

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Title
漁家傲·記夢To the Tune Yujia’ao: Recording a Dream渔家傲·记梦
Author
Li Qingzhao 李清照 (1084–c. 1155)
Date
Songc. 1130
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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No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.

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