西江月·夜行黃沙道中西江月·夜行黄沙道中
To the Tune Xijiangyue: Walking at Night on the Yellow Sand Road
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A night walk told entirely through small sensations, ending in the relief of a remembered inn; unexpectedly happy work from a poet of heroic grief, light but flawless.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Written in the 1180s, when Xin Qiji, soldier and statesman, had been retired to the countryside near Shangrao. It is a night walk told entirely through small sensations, moonlight, cicadas, rice scent, frogs, a few stars, a few drops of rain, and it ends with the relief of a remembered inn appearing round a bend. For a poet better known for heroic grief, it is unexpectedly happy.
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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-001069
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- Title
- 西江月·夜行黃沙道中
To the Tune Xijiangyue: Walking at Night on the Yellow Sand Road 西江月·夜行黄沙道中 - Author
- Xin Qiji 辛棄疾 (1140–1207)
- Date
- Song
1180s - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text as given on Chinese Wikisource; punctuation is added at the source’s own phrase breaks. Lines broken at the punctuation for reading; text unchanged.
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