Hermitage on NanWutaishan in the Zhongnan Range

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The Zhongnan Mountains

Wang Wei 701-761 Taiyi isn't far from the Heart of Heaven Its ridges extend to the edge of the sea White clouds form before your eyes Blue vapors vanish in plain sight Around its peaks the whole realm turns In every valley the light looks different In need of a place to spend the night I yell to a wood cutter across the stream

Zhōngnán Shān

Wáng Wéi 701-761 Tàiyǐ jìn Tiāndū, Lián shān dào hǎi yú. Bái yún huí wàng hé, Qīng ǎi rù kàn wú. Fēn yě zhōng fēng biàn, Yīn qíng zhòng hè shū. Yù tóu rén chǔ sù, Gé shuǐ wèn qiáofū.

Translator:

Red Pine-Bill Porter 赤松

Notes: From the book Poems of the Masters, China's Classic Anthology of Tang and Song Dynasty verse. One of the best, if not "the best", books of general translations of Chinese poetry. Wonderfully detailed notes on each poem and all poems are displayed in the original Chinese. Translated by Red Pine, published by Copper Canyon Press.

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