English Rendering
Last night my girdle came undone,
And this morning a luck-beetle flew over my bed.
So here are my paints and here are my powders --
And a welcome for my yoke again.
The Jade Dressing-table
- Poetry of Quan Deyu
《玉台体-其十一》
Original Text (中文原文)
昨夜裙带解，今朝蟢子飞。
铅华不可弃，莫是藁砧归。
Analysis & Context
Five-character-quatrain
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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