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Translation of the Poems

 
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Désirée



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:38 pm    Post subject: Translation of the Poems Reply with quote
I find the English translation of Chinese poems from Tan-Dynasty and so on beyond my comprehension.

Take this one for example:

"You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain,
I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.
As the peach-blossom flows down stream into the unknown
I have a world apart from men".

The correpsonding Chinese text shows the popular "Musing in a quiet night" of Li Tai-Po

床前明月光
疑是地上霜
举头望明月
低头思故乡

Where did the translator get the word "peach-blossom"? Is it a error through linking a wrong Chinese text to the English translation?
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Exactly whee did you find this??? You happen to see
a bad page. The fact is there are thousands of good
translations on the web.

Spend a few months to study the poetry at this web site,
before you complain.

Start with http://www.chinapage.com/libai014.html

You can also read the many postings at this [Poetry] forum about
this specific poem.

Ming
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Aolung



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PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2010 6:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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The correpsonding Chinese text shows the popular "Musing in a quiet night" of Li Tai-Po


Actually not! How do you come to relate the translation posted by you to that poem???? (Do you read Chinese at all??)

The translation is of the following one:

山中问答
(唐）李白
问余何意栖碧山，
笑而不答心自闲。
桃花流水盲然去，
别有天地在人间。

And here's an English version by Xu Yuanzhong:

A Reply

I dwell in the green hills and someone asks me why,
My mind carefree, I smile and give him no reply.
Peach blossoms fallen on running water pass by,
This is an earthly paradise under the sky.

Aolung
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