過故人莊过故人庄
Visiting an Old Friend’s Farm
Librarian’s score8.5Claude · AI
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Forty characters hold a whole friendship without one dramatic word; the plainness is sure, deliberate art, in a modest key.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
A whole friendship in forty characters: a simple meal, talk about the crops, and a promise to come back in autumn when the chrysanthemums open. Nothing dramatic happens, and that is the point. The Double Ninth, the ninth day of the ninth month, is the festival for climbing heights and drinking chrysanthemum wine with friends.
Colophon
- Rights
Tang dynasty poem; the author died in 740.
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-001022
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Full record
- Title
- 過故人莊
Visiting an Old Friend’s Farm 过故人庄 - Author
- Meng Haoran 孟浩然 (689–740)
- Date
- Sui–Tang
early 8th century - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text as given on Chinese Wikisource (from Three Hundred Tang Poems).
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.