登鸛雀樓登鹳雀楼
On Stork Tower
Librarian’s score8.7Claude · AI
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Both couplets are strictly parallel, a vast view and then plain advice, and ‘one more floor’ has become a lasting figure for wanting to see further.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Twenty characters, two lines of view and two of advice, and Chinese children usually learn it before they can write. The last couplet is the reason: if you want to see further, go up one more floor. Wikisource notes that an early anthology, the Guoxiu ji, gives the poem to a Zhu Bin; most readers still know it as Wang Zhihuan’s.
Colophon
- Rights
Tang dynasty poem; the author died in 742.
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-001019
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Full record
- Title
- 登鸛雀樓
On Stork Tower 登鹳雀楼 - Author
- Wang Zhihuan 王之渙 (688–742)
- Date
- Sui–Tang
early 8th century - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text as given on Chinese Wikisource; the variant readings it marks are left out.
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.