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lnhammerIn cold spring he bestowed her bathing in Huaqing Pool:
The waters of the hot-spring slid off smooth white skin,
The servants helped her rise up, languid without strength—
And it was then she first received imperial favor.
Cloud hair, a flower face, a golden hairpin swaying,
Within the warmth of lotus screens she passed spring nights—
Spring nights that were bitterly short: the sun rose high,
And then her lord did not attend his morning court.
She sought to please him, served at banquets, never idle:
In spring, she chased spring pleasures—night, she took all nights.
春寒赐浴华清池，
温泉水滑洗凝脂。
侍儿扶起娇无力，
始是新承恩泽时。
云鬓花颜金步摇，
芙蓉帐暖度春宵。
春宵苦短日高起，
从此君王不早朝。
承欢侍宴无闲暇，
春从春游夜专夜。
Another installment. Hauqing (“elegant clarity”) palace on Mt. Li, 15 miles east of Chang'an, was built as an imperial resort on the hot-springs there (the pool Yang Guifei supposedly used still exists). Idioms: the smooth white skin is literally “congealed fat,” which is a compliment, and the hairpin is the type with danglies on the end that's called a “walk-sway.”
---L.
The waters of the hot-spring slid off smooth white skin,
The servants helped her rise up, languid without strength—
And it was then she first received imperial favor.
Cloud hair, a flower face, a golden hairpin swaying,
Within the warmth of lotus screens she passed spring nights—
Spring nights that were bitterly short: the sun rose high,
And then her lord did not attend his morning court.
She sought to please him, served at banquets, never idle:
In spring, she chased spring pleasures—night, she took all nights.
春寒赐浴华清池，
温泉水滑洗凝脂。
侍儿扶起娇无力，
始是新承恩泽时。
云鬓花颜金步摇，
芙蓉帐暖度春宵。
春宵苦短日高起，
从此君王不早朝。
承欢侍宴无闲暇，
春从春游夜专夜。
Another installment. Hauqing (“elegant clarity”) palace on Mt. Li, 15 miles east of Chang'an, was built as an imperial resort on the hot-springs there (the pool Yang Guifei supposedly used still exists). Idioms: the smooth white skin is literally “congealed fat,” which is a compliment, and the hairpin is the type with danglies on the end that's called a “walk-sway.”
---L.