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Poems | Liu Wentao: Four Poems of Ke Dongchang

Four songs of Kedongchang

Text/Liu Wentao

Three days before Gengzi lied to winter, Yu was ordered to travel from Qufu to Dongchang and excavate the Rope Zhang Cemetery in the east of the city. Braving the severe cold, withstanding the wind and snow, crossing the New Year, bathing in the spring wind, and ending in the summer. Ke Dongchang half a year, got four slang sentences, recorded below:

Poems | Liu Wentao: Four Poems of Ke Dongchang

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First, don't qufu

The guest residence is hundreds of days long, and the farewell que is Yang Kuiguang.

Thousands of poems and rituals, ancient taoist temples.

The hinoki covers Dacheng Road, and the yellow leaves cover the Wanling Wall.

It is difficult to pick up the pen to paint autumn and be busy riding the west wind under Dongchang.

Poems | Liu Wentao: Four Poems of Ke Dongchang

2. Wangkou Ancient Locust

Beside the green canal, the orally passed on the snow and frost for thousands of years.

The old dry is like optimus prime, and the new branches are like sunrise mulberry.

He once read the ship through the north and south, and the thunder and fire were injured.

Today it seems to sigh on its side, and the old dragon will meet again in the spring.

Poems | Liu Wentao: Four Poems of Ke Dongchang

Third, watch the rain in vain

The mezzanine was empty and cold, and the stone bridge was silent and the water trickled.

The snow marks of the day before had not disappeared, and the rain was now dragging willow smoke.

Moving bamboo is comparable to Xiaoxiang scenery, and Tim Stone is just like Mijia Mountain.

Wait for the clouds to open, and do not bear the east wind for a good year.

Poems | Liu Wentao: Four Poems of Ke Dongchang

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Fourth, Don Don't Dongchang

Half a year of time to pay Dongchang, buckle the soil to read the millennium.

Meet the daughter of the Li clan [1] and meet Du Jialang [2] who died early.

The city is known as the second [3], and the suburbs of Yi are reproduced in the city and township [4].

The thoughts are endless, and the coming days of the meeting are not measurable.

[1] Excavations unearthed the Tang Dynasty 's Tombstone of Li Twenty-two's' Tomb, which contains Xu's Qing Pingcheng family, who died before he returned.

[2] Excavations unearthed the Epitaph of Dulang's Wife, which contains his fourth son and the second son who died young.

[3] The epitaph contains the name of Bozhou Erfang in the Tang Dynasty.

[4] The epitaph contains the name of the township outside bozhou in the Tang Dynasty and the city of Cao.

Poems | Liu Wentao: Four Poems of Ke Dongchang

【About the author】Liu Wentao, master's degree, research direction of Han and Tang Archaeology, is now working at the Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology.

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