"- to the tune of Yiqin’e"
"This short verse was probably composed after she settled in Ling’an, the new capital. It’s a popular theme in many of the artistic works created during this period when the new settlers often sensed strong pain missing their lost family me…"
"This ci is thought to have been composed in 1120 on her way from Qingzhou to join her husband Zhao Mincheng who became governor of Laizhou. Li Qing-zhao had lived in Qingzhou for over ten years and had intimate friends there. These friends w…"
"Yan’s Fishing Pavilion: Legend has it that this is the riverbank spot where Yan Zilin used to do fishing when he chose to live in seclusion rather than living for fame and money in a high official position offered by Emperor Guangwu of the …"
"- to the Tune of YulouchunIn some editions, this ci is titled "The Plum Tree". According to Another Collection of Li Qing-zhao, this ci was composed sometime between 1108 and 1127, placing it in what is regarded as her second peri…"
"- to the tune of Yujia’aoScholars associate the exuberance of this ci with the earlier phase of Li Qingzhao's life, before she and her kind began fleeing to the south from the sudden foreign encroachments. Western readers would do well to i…"
"- to the tune of Tanpo HuanxishaThis poem could be written by Li Qingzhao as agreed by most scholars. The last sentence could be an indication of the composing time being after she settled in Lin’an where her only hope of returning home is …"
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Before my Window (
添字丑奴儿·窗前谁种芭蕉树…)
"- to the Tune of TianzicaisangziThis ci was written in a season of profound homesickness, sometime after 1127, a time of turmoil when Northern Song just came to an end after the fall of the capital. The Royal Court moved south，opening a new…"
"- to the tune of Ruizheguginkgo fruit: the symbolic implication associated with nobility, well-bred, well-designed, profound love that stands the test of many life cycles thanks to the fair skin, delicate petite oval shape, and the loving pa…"
"- to the Tune of LinjiangxianAccording to Another Collection of Li Qingzhao, this ci was composed in 1129, after she had joined her husband in Jiankang, now the city of Nanjing. Before the Lantern Festival（元宵节）, the last day of Spring …"
"- to the Tune of XingxiangziThis ci comes from the period after the poet had moved south to avoid the conquering Jin armies, when her married 1ife was not only interrupted by her husband's departure on official duties, it was cast into peril…"
"- to the tune of ‘New Lotus Leaves’This ci poem was composed in 1108 when Li Qingzhao was 25 years old and was enjoying the happiest period of her married life, in Qingzhou. It could be a celebration of Chao Buzhi’s birthday which is in …"
""- to the tune of Yuanwangsun"This is a good example of sentimental boudoir ci poems very popular among the gentle class in the Song dynasty. Many of the writers could be gentlemen who wrote there and then for entertainment on the…"
"This poem is listed under Li Qingzhao in some versions but others have it under ‘Anonymous’"
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"Composed in her early marriage days when she was still a teenage girl, this ci poem is the only one in this music tune pattern from her collection left today. She was the happiest lady in the world living with her beloved husband who was the…"
"The fear mentioned could be a strong hint about her father’s shaky situation at the Royal Court where the old party and the new party are fighting like dogs and cats right now. And her concern was witnessed later as her father, together wit…"
"This could be a ci poem written by Yi’an upon her dear brother’s leaving home for a long trip assigned by the Royal Court. It could be after her husband’s death and both of them were living together in the South. We know that she had foll…"
"‘zhi’: knowledge or fameThis poem was an outcome of an intellectual game she had with her lady friends perhaps in the drawing room (similar to a poetry club /book club today), where Yi’an picked the word ‘zhi’ so she had to come up with…"
"Li Qingzhao wrote this in 1143 when she settled in Lin’an ( today’s Hangzhou), the capital of Southern Song Dynasty.It’s Chinese tradition to post red scrolls of poems on the frames of doors and windows during the Chinese New Year celebra…"
"This is a seasonal greeting poem written on a red scroll for the Noble Consort Wu who became the Empress a few months later. Again the theme focuses on happiness and on having more children. Shaoyang Palace in the Han dynasty is said to be a…"
"Li Qingzhao's husband Zhao Mingcheng (1081 - 1129, epigrapher, poet, and politician) died of disease after he was appointed to be Huzhou's governor of the New Southern Song dynasty. His sudden death left his wife to a world under the siege o…"
"- to the tune of Pusamanwritten by Li Qingzhao (Song Dynasty)A strong sense of rootless and alienated sentiment is felt here as it was written in the early days of her settlement in Hangzhou soon after her loss of home, husband, and ten ho…"
"This lyric was written on a Lantern Festival,the 15th day of the first lunar month,after the Jurchen invasion.The poetess thought of the pleasure enjoyed in the lost capital and felt grieved over the death of her dear husband."
"This is a manly poem written by a woman poet who dreamed of sailing through the mist,the clouds,the Milky Way and up to God's abode and soaring like the roc on the wing of the wind to the three divine isles ninety thousand miles away."
"This straightforward poem was written during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) by Li Qingzhao, one of the best-known female writers in Chinese history. Though only fragments of her works survived, she wrote prolifically during her lifetime, usuall…"
"Composed around 1127 shortly after the fall of Northern Song and the first Southern Song emperor was throned. It was a period of turmoil due to the Jin’s invasion. With the loss of their capital, the new court became mobile from place to pl…"
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Cold sheet (
一剪梅·红藕香残玉簟秋)
"This lyric:depicts the loneliness of the poetess longing for messages from her husband who was far away.Qing-zhao this ci was written in 1101, hen she had just married. Mingcheng was traveling quite far away and she is reputed to have sent h…"
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"By Li Qingzhao"
