竹里館
The Bamboo Grove Lodge
Wang Wei 王維 (c. 699–761)
Sui–Tang · mid-8th century

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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. Guidance, not legal advice.
Source: Wikisource, https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/輞川集_(王維)/竹里館 (retrieved 2026-10-11)
English translation: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
Generated 2026-10-14 from https://coldlibrary.com/en/open-stacks/wang-wei-bamboo-grove-lodge

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獨坐幽篁裏，彈琴復長嘯。
深林人不知，明月來相照。

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独坐幽篁里，弹琴复长啸。
深林人不知，明月来相照。

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English translation by Claude (an AI)

I sit alone in the dark bamboo,
playing the qin and whistling long.
Deep in the wood, no one knows I am here;
the bright moon comes to shine on me.