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Sui Palace, Li Shangyin (Tang Shi #301)
Tuesday, 8 October 2019 09:26He rambled the South on impulse, without strong precautions—
Who would, in these nine-layer walls, admonish him?
In spring winds, all the nation cut up royal brocades:
Half made into saddle mud-guards, half into sails.
隋宫
乘兴南游不戒严，
九重谁省谏书函。
春风举国裁宫锦，
半作障泥半作帆。
The Sui Emperor Yang had a lavish palace in Yangzhou. He was, to put it mildly, extravagant and self-indulgent: when he traveled around the region, abducting women, he didn’t like an encumbering entourage, and more than once criticism by officials was met with death sentences.
—L.
Who would, in these nine-layer walls, admonish him?
In spring winds, all the nation cut up royal brocades:
Half made into saddle mud-guards, half into sails.
隋宫
乘兴南游不戒严，
九重谁省谏书函。
春风举国裁宫锦，
半作障泥半作帆。
The Sui Emperor Yang had a lavish palace in Yangzhou. He was, to put it mildly, extravagant and self-indulgent: when he traveled around the region, abducting women, he didn’t like an encumbering entourage, and more than once criticism by officials was met with death sentences.
—L.