Summer palace

[Summer palace -- Yuán Zhĕn]
[Send to Daoist priest in the Quánjiāo Mountains -- Wéi Yìngwù]
[Hearing Jùn the monk from Shŭ play the lute -- Lĭ Bái]
[Moonlit night -- Dù Fŭ]

[Summer palace]

Empty discarded / old summer palace
palace peonies / lonesome lonesome red
white haired / palace women present
idly sit / rehashing Emperor Xuánzōng
[zju-'èn 'dzò:ŋ]

-- 元稹 (Yuán Zhĕn) -- Translation by 白狐 (Bái Hú) --

元稹 Yuán Zhĕn
「行宮」 [xíng gōng]
寥落古行宮 - liáo là gŭ xíng gōng
宮花寂寞紅 - gōng huā jì mò hóng
白頭宮女在 - bái tóu gōng nǚ zài
閒坐說玄宗 - xián zuò shuō xuán zōng

[short-stay palace]
empty discarded / old short-stay palace
palace flowers / lonesome lonesome red
white haired / palace women there-are
idly sit / talk-about "mysterious ancestor"

[Tang Dynasty - there were two named Xuánzōng >
712-756 CE and 846-859 CE]

元稹 Yuán Zhĕn -- The Summer Palace
http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=Tangshi&no=245
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[Send to Daoist priest in the Quánjiāo Mountains]

Today court, my office is cold
suddenly I think of the guy in the mountains
bundling chaste-tree firewood down in a ravine
upon return he cooks with hot white stones
I have an urge to bring him a gourd of rice wine
for comfort there in evening rainstorms
but the sky mountains are full of fallen leaves
so how to look for his footprints ?!

-- 韋應物 (Wéi Yìngwù) -- Translation by 白狐 (Bái Hú) --

韋應物 Wéi Yìngwù
「寄全椒山中道士」 [jì Quánjiāo shān zhōng Dàoshì]
今朝郡齋冷 - jīn cháo jùn zhāi lĕng
忽念山中客 - hū niàn shān zhōng kè
澗底束荊薪 - jiàn dĭ shù jīng xīn
歸來煮白石 - guī lái zhŭ bái shí
欲持一瓢酒 - yù chí yī piáo jiŭ
遠慰風雨夕 - yuăn wèi fēng yŭ xī
落葉滿空山 - luò yè măn kōng shān
何處尋行跡 - hé chù xún xíng jī

Quánjiāo > "complete pepper"
mountain[s>] among/in
dào shì = way scholar
office < prefecture building/room
kè = here > one who settles or lives in a strange place

韋應物 Wéi Yìngwù
A Poem to a Taoist Hermit Chuanjiao Mountain
http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=Tangshi&no=29
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[Hearing Jun the monk from Shu (Sichuan) play the lute]

ShÅ­ monk / carries green damask
down west / from Éméi Mountain
makes with / one string stroke
me hear / myriad gully pines
wandering heart / washes in brooks
lute sound / penetrates frosty bell
not feel / green mountain sunset
autumn clouds / darker and darker

-- 李白 (Lĭ Bái) -- 白狐 (Bái Hú) --

李白 Lĭ Bái
「聽蜀僧濬彈琴」 [tīng Shŭ sēng Jùn tán qín]
蜀僧抱綠綺 - shŭ sēng bào lǜ qĭ
西下峨眉峰 - xī xià é méi fēng
為我一揮手 - wéi wŏ yī huī shŏu
如聽萬壑松 - rú tīng wàn hè sōng
客心洗流水 - kè xīn xĭ liú shuĭ
餘響入霜鐘 - yú xiăng rù shuāng zhōng
不覺碧山暮 - bù jué bì shān mù
秋雲暗幾重 - qiū yún àn jĭ zhòng

李白 Lĭ Bái
On hearing Jun the Buddhist monk from Shu play his lute
http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=Tangshi&no=103
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[Moonlit night]

This night's / Moon in Fūzhōu
watching alone / from her boudoir
far away / her beloved son
she recalls / past long peace
fragrant mist / cloudy moist hairknot
bright curtain / cold jade arm
when lose / this empty feeling
together again / no more tears

-- 杜甫 (Dù Fŭ) -- Translation by 白狐 (Bái Hú) --

杜甫 Dù Fŭ
「月夜」 [yuè yè]
今夜鄜州月 - jīn yè fū zhōu yuè
閨中只獨看 - guī zhōng zhī dú kàn
遙憐小兒女 - yáo lián xiăo ér nǚ
未解憶長安 - wèi jiě yì cháng ān
香霧雲鬟濕 - xiāng wù yún huán shī
清輝玉臂寒 - qīng huī yù bì hán
何時倚虛幌 - hé shí yĭ xū huăng
雙照淚痕乾 - shuāng zhào lèi hén gān

[verses 6-8 literally >]
pure bright / jade arm cold
what time / rely-on emptiness heavy-curtain
both shine / tear traces dry

杜甫 Dù Fŭ -- On a Moonlight Night
http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=Tangshi&no=105
[this version (as many are on this site) is completely wrong:
here it's about two lovers missing each other, BUT
it's about a mother missing her son who was drafted
because of a war !!]