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Song of Lasting Regret lines 85-90, Bai Juyi (Tang Shi #71)
Where a gorgeous pavilion rose up through five clouds
Within which there were many graceful, charming fairies,
Among them someone who was styled Great Purity
With snowy skin and flower face—it seemed like her.
He knocked upon its west wing’s golden watchtower,
Imploring Xiaoyu to announce him to Shaungcheng.
楼阁玲珑五云起，
其中绰约多仙子。
中有一人字太真，
雪肤花貌参差是。
金阙西厢叩玉扃，
转教小玉报双成。
Yang Guifei’s Daoist name Great Purity came up in #284. In Daoist lore, Xiaoyu (“small jade”) and Shuangcheng (“twice complete”) are two celestial beings (translated here as fairies, with some hesitation—it is a traditional rendering but only a rough correspondence) being repurposed as attendants.
(Three-quarters done.)
---L.
Within which there were many graceful, charming fairies,
Among them someone who was styled Great Purity
With snowy skin and flower face—it seemed like her.
He knocked upon its west wing’s golden watchtower,
Imploring Xiaoyu to announce him to Shaungcheng.
楼阁玲珑五云起，
其中绰约多仙子。
中有一人字太真，
雪肤花貌参差是。
金阙西厢叩玉扃，
转教小玉报双成。
Yang Guifei’s Daoist name Great Purity came up in #284. In Daoist lore, Xiaoyu (“small jade”) and Shuangcheng (“twice complete”) are two celestial beings (translated here as fairies, with some hesitation—it is a traditional rendering but only a rough correspondence) being repurposed as attendants.
(Three-quarters done.)
---L.
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