浣溪沙（一曲新詞酒一杯）浣溪沙（一曲新词酒一杯）
To the Tune Huanxisha: A New Song, a Cup of Wine
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Polished and unhurried, built around the famous couplet of falling flowers and returning swallows; the rest is graceful leisure without much weight.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Yan Shu was a chief minister of the Northern Song, and his lyrics are quiet, polished and full of leisure. Huanxisha, ‘washing silk in the stream’, is the name of the tune, not the subject; Song lyrics were written to existing melodies. This one turns on a famous couplet, flowers falling and swallows returning, loss and return in the same breath, which is how the seasons actually work.
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- Rights
Song dynasty lyric (ci); the author died in 1055.
Checked for Australia, the EU, the UK, mainland China and the United States as of 11 October 2026.
- Source
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English: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-001051
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- Title
- 浣溪沙（一曲新詞酒一杯）
To the Tune Huanxisha: A New Song, a Cup of Wine 浣溪沙（一曲新词酒一杯） - Author
- Yan Shu 晏殊 (991–1055)
- Date
- Song
first half of the 11th 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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