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Gathered Spirits Terrace 1, Zhang Hu (Tang Shi #284)
Tuesday, 13 August 2019 09:27The sunlight slants through Gathered Spirits Terrace,
The trees bloom red at dawn to greet the dew.
Last night, Xuanzong received the Daoist records:
Great Purity enters his screen with smiling face.
集灵台之一
日光斜照集灵台，
红树花迎晓露开。
昨夜上皇新授箓，
太真含笑入帘来。
First of two poems. Yang Yuhuan Guifei appears again, but this time the satire is more direct. Great Purity (Taizhen) was her Daoist name during her brief stint as a nun, a position bestowed secretly by Emperor Xuanzong (the records are part of this process) as a way of unimpeachably dissolving her marriage to his son, prior to taking her as his own concubine a few days after.
The Terrace of Gathered Spirits (or something like that—I haven’t found a standard translation) was a hall within Huaqing Palace (an imperial pleasure palace at a hot springs southeast of Chang’an) used for rites praying for longevity for the emperor—thus its association with a Daoist investiture.
---L.
The trees bloom red at dawn to greet the dew.
Last night, Xuanzong received the Daoist records:
Great Purity enters his screen with smiling face.
集灵台之一
日光斜照集灵台，
红树花迎晓露开。
昨夜上皇新授箓，
太真含笑入帘来。
First of two poems. Yang Yuhuan Guifei appears again, but this time the satire is more direct. Great Purity (Taizhen) was her Daoist name during her brief stint as a nun, a position bestowed secretly by Emperor Xuanzong (the records are part of this process) as a way of unimpeachably dissolving her marriage to his son, prior to taking her as his own concubine a few days after.
The Terrace of Gathered Spirits (or something like that—I haven’t found a standard translation) was a hall within Huaqing Palace (an imperial pleasure palace at a hot springs southeast of Chang’an) used for rites praying for longevity for the emperor—thus its association with a Daoist investiture.
---L.