English Rendering
Catching the edge of your shirt,
"Where are you going to this time?"
I don't worry you come back after you promised,
i just wish you won't go to Linqiong.
Catching the edge of your shirt
- Poetry of Meng Jiao
《欲别牵郎衣》
Original Text (中文原文)
欲别牵郎衣，郎今到何处。
不恨归来迟，莫向临邛去。
Analysis & Context
Meng Jiao:孟郊(AD751-814),he's a studious poet who paid a lot of time to learn how to write poems.Most of his poems are very natural and simple.He hardly wrote the love poems,so his love poems look like the folk with the smell of the village.
Reader's Companion
The Essence of the Verse
Classical Chinese poetry thrives on Concision and Ambiguity. Without tense or number, the words create a timeless space where the reader becomes the co-creator of the poem's meaning.
Reading Between the Lines
Look for Contrasts: light and shadow, movement and stillness. Don't just translate the words; feel the Yijing (artistic conception) that lingers long after the last character.
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