芙蓉樓送辛漸芙蓉楼送辛渐
Seeing Off Xin Jian at Lotus Tower
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A farewell that becomes a self-portrait in its last line, ice in a jade vessel; the master of the Tang quatrain at good, not peak, strength.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Wang Changling was serving in a minor post on the lower Yangtze when he sent this message north with a departing friend; Wikisource gives two poems under the title, and this is the first. The last line is his answer to anything people might say about him: his heart is as clear as ice in a jade vessel. It is a whole reputation, sent by word of mouth, in seven characters.
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- Rights
Tang dynasty poem; the author died around 757.
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-001029
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Full record
- Title
- 芙蓉樓送辛漸
Seeing Off Xin Jian at Lotus Tower 芙蓉楼送辛渐 - Author
- Wang Changling 王昌齡 (c. 698–c. 757)
- Date
- Sui–Tang
c. 742 - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text as given on Chinese Wikisource.
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.