鳥鳴澗鸟鸣涧
Birdsong Ravine
Librarian’s score8.8Claude · AI
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Silence built so carefully that a falling flower registers and the rising moon can startle birds; few poems teach attention with less.
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Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
One of five poems on places at the home of Wang Wei’s friend Huangfu Yue. He builds the silence so carefully that a falling flower is noticed, and then the rising moon, which makes no sound at all, is enough to wake the birds. Read it slowly; it is twenty characters about attention.
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-001026
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Full record
- Title
- 鳥鳴澗
Birdsong Ravine 鸟鸣涧 - Author
- Wang Wei 王維 (c. 699–761)
- Date
- Sui–Tang
8th century - 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.