送元二使安西
Seeing Off Yuan the Second on a Mission to Anxi
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Sung as the Three Refrains of Yang Pass, it became the parting song of the Tang; its art is all in delay, one more cup before the road.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Set to music soon after it was written, it became the standard parting song of the Tang, sung with lines repeated as the Three Refrains of Yang Pass, 阳关三叠. Willow branches were broken off and given at partings, and the rain has washed them green. Everything in the poem is about a small delay: one more cup before the road begins.
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- Rights
Tang dynasty poem; the author died in 761.
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- Source
Wikisource
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English: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-001027
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Full record
- Title
- 送元二使安西
Seeing Off Yuan the Second on a Mission to Anxi - 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.
- This copy
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