Border Songs 2, Lu Lun (Tang Shi #257)
Friday, 21 June 2019 08:04In the dark woods, a gust in the grass—
The general draws his bow at night.
At dawn, they search for his white fletching:
The arrow pierced deep into stone.
塞下曲 首二
林暗草惊风,
将军夜引弓。
平明寻白羽,
没在石棱中。
This is based on an incident in the biography of Li Guang in Records of the Grand Historian, during a nighttime tiger hunt. The gust is not the result of the arrow, but what the general shot at.
---L.
The general draws his bow at night.
At dawn, they search for his white fletching:
The arrow pierced deep into stone.
塞下曲 首二
林暗草惊风,
将军夜引弓。
平明寻白羽,
没在石棱中。
This is based on an incident in the biography of Li Guang in Records of the Grand Historian, during a nighttime tiger hunt. The gust is not the result of the arrow, but what the general shot at.
---L.