Nanwutai in the Zhongnanshan, south of Xi'an

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Addressed Humourously to Du Fu

Li Bai 701-762 Here! is this you on the top of Fanke Mountain, Wearing a huge hat in the noon-day sun? How thin, how wretchedly thin, you have grown! You must have been suffering from poetry again.

Xì Zèng Dù Fǔ

Lǐ Bái 701-762 Fànkē Shān tóu féng Dù Fǔ， Dǐng dài lì zǐ rì zhuó wǔ. Jièwèn bié lái tài shòu shēng， Zòng wéi cóngqián zuò shī kǔ.

Translator:

Shigeyoshi Obata 小畑薰良

Notes: In contrast with Li Po, who depended largely on inspiration, Du Fu was a painstaking artist careful of the minutest details. _______________ From the book The Works of Li Po, first published in Tokyo, Japan in 1935, Excellent English translations by a Japanese scholar.

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