天淨沙·秋思天净沙·秋思
To the Tune Tianjingsha: Autumn Thoughts
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Nine images set side by side without a verb, then one traveller at the sky’s edge; Zhou Deqing called it the ancestor of autumn poems.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
A sanqu, the song-lyric of the Yuan dynasty, and the most famous one: its first three lines contain no verbs, only nine things set side by side, and the scene assembles itself. Wikisource records ‘level sand’ as a variant for ‘someone’s home’. The traveller at the end is looking at a house that is not his, and that is the whole poem.
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- Rights
Yuan dynasty song (sanqu); the author died around 1321.
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- Source
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English: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-001072
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- Title
- 天淨沙·秋思
To the Tune Tianjingsha: Autumn Thoughts 天净沙·秋思 - Author
- Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠 (c. 1250–c. 1321)
- Date
- Yuan
c. 1300 - 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.
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.