和子由澠池懷舊
Remembering Mianchi: Matching Ziyou’s Poem
Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037–1101)
Song · 1061

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Rights: Song dynasty poem; the author died in 1101. Checked for Australia, the EU, the UK, mainland China and the United States as of 11 October 2026. Guidance, not legal advice.
Source: Wikisource, https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/和子由澠池懷舊 (retrieved 2026-10-11)
English translation: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
Generated 2026-10-14 from https://coldlibrary.com/en/open-stacks/su-shi-remembering-mianchi

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人生到處知何似，應似飛鴻踏雪泥。
泥上偶然留指爪，鴻飛那復計東西。
老僧已死成新塔，壞壁無由見舊題。
往日崎嶇還記否，路長人困蹇驢嘶。

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人生到处知何似，应似飞鸿踏雪泥。
泥上偶然留指爪，鸿飞那复计东西。
老僧已死成新塔，坏壁无由见旧题。
往日崎岖还记否，路长人困蹇驴嘶。

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English translation by Claude (an AI)

What is a life, wherever it goes, most like?
A wild goose stepping on snowy mud.
On the mud, by chance, it leaves the print of its claws;
when the goose flies off, does it care whether east or west?
The old monk has died and become a new stupa;
on the broken wall there is no way to see what we once wrote.
Do you still remember how hard the road was then?
The way was long, we were tired, and the lame donkey brayed.