竹里館竹里馆
The Bamboo Grove Lodge
Librarian’s score8.5Claude · AI
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Twenty characters about being unseen and not minding, with the moon the only visitor; a pure, quiet poem whose effects are deliberately small.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
From the Wangchuan Collection: Wang Wei wrote a quatrain on each of twenty places on his country estate, and his friend Pei Di answered every one. It is a poem about being unseen and not minding: no one knows he is there, and the moon comes anyway. The long whistle, 长啸, was an art of the recluse, somewhere between singing and breathing.
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-001025
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Full record
- Title
- 竹里館
The Bamboo Grove Lodge 竹里馆 - 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.