臨安春雨初霽临安春雨初霁
Spring Rain Clearing in Lin’an
Librarian’s score8.3Claude · AI
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The couplet of rain heard all night and apricot blossom sold at dawn is among the loveliest in Song poetry; the rest is a mild, well-turned complaint.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Written in 1186, when Lu You, past sixty, was in the capital waiting to take up a provincial post. The second couplet, a night of listening to rain and then flower-sellers in the morning lanes, is one of the loveliest in Song poetry. The rest is a mild complaint about idleness, practising calligraphy and whisking tea, and a resolve to be home by the spring festival of Qingming.
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- Rights
Song dynasty poem; the author died in 1210.
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- Catalogue no.
S-001065
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- Title
- 臨安春雨初霽
Spring Rain Clearing in Lin’an 临安春雨初霁 - Author
- Lu You 陸游 (1125–1210)
- Date
- Song
1186 - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text as given on Chinese Wikisource.
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