山居秋暝
Autumn Evening in the Mountains
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Composed like a painting, moon and pines over water and stones, with sound arriving before sight; it is the clearest example of what Wang Wei’s landscape poetry can do.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Wang Wei was a painter as well as a poet, and the middle couplets are composed like a picture: moon and pines above, water and stones below, then sound before sight, as you hear the bamboo before you see the women. The last line quietly reverses Summoning the Recluse, a poem in the Songs of Chu that called the noble wanderer home because the mountains were no place to stay long. Wang Wei says: stay.
Colophon
- Rights
Tang dynasty poem; the author died in 761.
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-001024
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Full record
- Title
- 山居秋暝
Autumn Evening in the Mountains - Author
- Wang Wei 王維 (c. 699–761)
- Date
- Sui–Tang
mid-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.