Cloud Hair, Zhao Luanluan
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lnhammerShe tidies up her fragrant cloud that’s not yet dry from washing—
Like crow’s neck or cicada wing, it’s glossy, shiny, cold.
On one side she inserts aslant a golden phoenix pin,
Then makeup done, she looks up smiling at her lord and husband.
云鬟
扰扰香云湿未干，
鸦领蝉翼腻光寒。
侧边斜插黄金凤，
妆罢夫君带笑看。
From Compete Tang Poems ch802, devoted to poems by women, first of five by the author; I’ll get to her deets later. Cloud hair is a specific hairstyle, with loops rising up from the head, as well as by general metonymy a term for a pretty young woman. There’s an alternate reading in l.2 of 翎 “plumage/tail-feather” instead of 领 “neck,” which is potentially a little more clear.
—L.
Like crow’s neck or cicada wing, it’s glossy, shiny, cold.
On one side she inserts aslant a golden phoenix pin,
Then makeup done, she looks up smiling at her lord and husband.
云鬟
扰扰香云湿未干，
鸦领蝉翼腻光寒。
侧边斜插黄金凤，
妆罢夫君带笑看。
From Compete Tang Poems ch802, devoted to poems by women, first of five by the author; I’ll get to her deets later. Cloud hair is a specific hairstyle, with loops rising up from the head, as well as by general metonymy a term for a pretty young woman. There’s an alternate reading in l.2 of 翎 “plumage/tail-feather” instead of 领 “neck,” which is potentially a little more clear.
—L.
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