醜奴兒·書博山道中壁丑奴儿·书博山道中壁
To the Tune Chounu’er: Written on a Wall on the Road to Boshan
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Two mirror-image halves, youth that forces sorrow and age that cannot speak it, with the weather as the last word; a perfectly made small lyric.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Another lyric from Xin Qiji’s years of retirement, written on a wall along the road to Boshan. The two halves are mirror images, youth and age, and the repeated phrases do the work: the young man repeats ‘climb the tower’ with enthusiasm, the older man repeats ‘want to speak, and stop’. What he finally says is about the weather, and the reader understands everything.
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- Rights
Song dynasty lyric (ci); the author died in 1207.
Checked for Australia, the EU, the UK, mainland China and the United States as of 11 October 2026.
- Source
Wikisource
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English: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-001070
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- Title
- 醜奴兒·書博山道中壁
To the Tune Chounu’er: Written on a Wall on the Road to Boshan 丑奴儿·书博山道中壁 - 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. Lines broken at the punctuation for reading; text unchanged.
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No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.