View north from Vietnam. The line on the street is the actual border.

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South Holding Pass

Phung Khac Khoan North of Langchao border          is the Pingxiang border, South of Radiating Virtue Terrace          is Revering Virtue Terrace. With the two kingdoms on good terms          nothing more to report, So people keep coming and going

Zhènnánguān

Phung Khac Khoan Lángzhōu jiè běi Píngxiáng jiè, Zhàodétài nán Yǎngdétái. Nánguó hào tōng wú hòushì, Rèn tā wǎngwǎng yòu láilái.

Translator:

Liam Kelley 翻譯者

Notes: On each side of the boder of the 鎮南關 Zhènnánguān, South Holding Frontier Pass was a formal ritual terrace. On the north side of the border it was named 照德臺 Zhàodétái Radiating Virtue Terrace, and on the south side 仰德臺 Yǎngdétái Revering Virtue Terrace, in conformance to the supremacy of China. For furthur dicussion of this poem read Liam Kelley's Beyond The Bronze Pillars, Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship, U of Hawaii Press.

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