行行重行行
On and On You Go
Librarian’s score8.8Claude · AI
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The first of the Nineteen Old Poems, at the root of the five-character line, ends its lament with ‘eat well’, a plain tenderness later poets rarely matched.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
The first of the Nineteen Old Poems, anonymous Eastern Han verses kept in the sixth-century anthology Wenxuan; they are the root of the five-character line that Tang poets would perfect. It is a poem of distance without blame. Notice the ending: after all the longing, the speaker sets it aside and says the plainest thing, ‘eat well’, which may be meant for the traveller or for the speaker, and is love either way.
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- Rights
Anonymous Eastern Han poem, collected in the Wenxuan (c. 530).
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-001006
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- Title
- 行行重行行
On and On You Go - Author
- Anonymous 佚名 (Eastern Han (25–220))
- Date
- Qin–Han
Eastern Han, 2nd century - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text as given on Chinese Wikisource (Nineteen Old Poems); the variant readings it marks are left out and punctuation is added at the source’s own phrase breaks.
- This copy
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