青玉案·元夕
To the Tune Qingyu’an: The Lantern Festival
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All the glitter and noise exist to set up one turn of the head toward someone where the lamps are few; one of the great endings in ci.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
The Lantern Festival, the fifteenth night of the first month, filled Song cities with lamps, and Xin Qiji spends most of the lyric on the noise and glitter. Then he finds the person he was looking for standing apart, where the lanterns are few. The scholar Wang Guowei later took these last lines as the third and highest stage of any great undertaking: after long searching, you turn, and it is there.
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- Rights
Song dynasty lyric (ci); the author died in 1207.
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- Source
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English: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-001068
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- Title
- 青玉案·元夕
To the Tune Qingyu’an: The Lantern Festival - Author
- Xin Qiji 辛棄疾 (1140–1207)
- Date
- Song
12th century - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text as given on Chinese Wikisource. Lines broken at the punctuation for reading; text unchanged.
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