Chun xiao 春 晓 by Meng Haoran 孟浩然
春眠不觉晓
处处闻啼鸟
夜来风雨声
花落知多少
chūn mián bù jué xiǎo
春眠不觉晓
chù chù wén tí niǎo
处处闻啼鸟
yè lái fēng yǔ shēng
夜来风雨声
huā là luò zhī duō shǎo
花落知多少
chūn mián bù jué xiǎo
春眠不觉晓
spring sleep not conscious (of) sleep
chù chù wén tí niǎo
处处闻啼鸟
everywhere hear song bird
yè lái fēng yǔ shēng
夜来风雨声
night come wind rain sound
huā là luò zhī duō shǎo
花落知多少
flower missing fall know how many
This poem was written by Meng Haoran. The poem uses simple words to paint a beautiful picture of spring. Meng Haoren used four sentences to write about the scene:
Don’t know, do know; Know, don’t know
Don’t know it is morning, but do know the birds are singing.
Know it rained last night, but don’t know how many flowers dropped down from the rain falling.
He writes so beautifully to describe the spring scene.
春眠不觉晓 spring time sleeps so well, you don’t even know that is morning time
处处闻啼鸟 everywhere can hear the birds singing
夜来风雨声 at night hear the wind and rain
花落知多少 don’t know how many flowers drop down from the wind and rain
Spring sleep. Morning time?
Everywhere birds sing.
Night sounds, wind rain.
How many flowers fall?
Xiaosui reciting Chun xiao 春 晓 by Meng Haoran 孟浩然
Meng Haoran 孟浩然 (689 or 691 – 740) was a Chinese poet during the Tang Dynasty. Unsuccessful in his official career, he mainly lived in and wrote about his birthplace.
The eldest of the major High Tang poets, he was born in Xiangyang, Hubei, and was strongly attached to the area. He lived there almost all his life, and its landscape, history and legends are the subjects of many of his poems. Particularly prominent are Nanshan (or South Mountain, his family seat) and Lumen Shan, where he briefly lived in retreat.
He had an unsuccessful civil service career, passing the Jinshi exam late, at the age of 39. He received his first and last position three years before his death, but resigned after less than a year.
He is often bracketed with Wang Wei, due to the friendship they shared and their prominence as landscape poets. In fact, Haoran composed several poems about Wei and their separation. While Wei focused on the natural world, in particular the solitude and reprieve it granted from human life along with the scale of the natural world, Meng Haoran focuses more on foreground details and human life.
His works are generally considered less consistently successful than Wang's.
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