Seeing Off Cui the Ninth, Pei Di (Tang Shi #229)
Wednesday, 22 May 2019 08:18![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammerYou are returning to the mountain depths
Where beautiful ruggedness awaits.
Don’t take after that man of Wuling
Who just briefly visited Peach Blossom Land.
送崔九
归山深浅去，
须尽丘壑美。
莫学武陵人，
暂游桃源里。
Not trying for tight lines like with Wang Wei because this feels like it lacks the same compression. (That said, the rhythm of “ruggedness” is too off.) Pei Di was a close friend of Wang Wei (Deer Enclosure is from a famous collaboration between the two, Wang River Collection) who has only this poem in 300 Tang Poems. The legend of Peach Blossom Land is related in one of Wang Wei’s longer poems (#78), in which a fisherman finds, up a hidden tributary, a community cut off from the outside world since the Han dynasty, but when he goes home to tell people about it, he couldn’t find the way to return.
---L.
Where beautiful ruggedness awaits.
Don’t take after that man of Wuling
Who just briefly visited Peach Blossom Land.
送崔九
归山深浅去，
须尽丘壑美。
莫学武陵人，
暂游桃源里。
Not trying for tight lines like with Wang Wei because this feels like it lacks the same compression. (That said, the rhythm of “ruggedness” is too off.) Pei Di was a close friend of Wang Wei (Deer Enclosure is from a famous collaboration between the two, Wang River Collection) who has only this poem in 300 Tang Poems. The legend of Peach Blossom Land is related in one of Wang Wei’s longer poems (#78), in which a fisherman finds, up a hidden tributary, a community cut off from the outside world since the Han dynasty, but when he goes home to tell people about it, he couldn’t find the way to return.
---L.