Attention, let poetry light up life
Translations
2021.1.11 Issue 329
Bu Operator sent Bao Haoran to Zhejiang East
Wang Guan
The water is the eye wave, and the mountain is the eyebrow peak gathering.
Want to ask pedestrians where to go? Eyebrows are shining.
Only then did he send the spring return, and then send the king back.
If you go to Jiangnan to catch the spring, don't live with the spring.
(Excerpted from Compulsory Education Textbook, Chinese, Grade 6, Volume II, Beijing: People's Education Press, 2019)
Wang Guan (1035-1100
), the character Tong Shuo, the number of the guest, Taizhou Rugao (now Jiangsu Rugao) people. The Northern Song Dynasty poets, together with the Qin Temple, were called "Two Views". Representative works include "Bu Operator Send bao Haoran to Zhejiang East" and so on.
WANG Guan(1035-1100), styled Sensible Old Man, Driving away Guests by literary name, a native of Rugao, Taizhou (present-day Rugao, Jiangsu Province). He was a poet in the Northern Song dynasty. Wang Guan and Qin Guan (a great sage of lyrics) have been jointly known as the “Two Guans”. One of Wang’s representative works is
Seeing Off Bao Haoran to East Zhejiang一 To the Tune of The Diviner.（王醒译）
Seeing Off Bao Haoran to East Zhejiang
—To the Tune of The Diviner
By WANG Guan
Tr. ZHAO Yanchun
Water, the ripples of her eyes;
Mountain, the rising of her brows.
Where, where to go, from the passer she pries,
And her ogles blue waves arouse.
Spring prime I have seen off, alack,
Now I see you off to go back.
If you can catch up with spring in South Land,
Please stay down with it, hand in hand.
Translator's Bio:
Zhao Yanchun, doctoral supervisor, director of translation research and publication of Shanghai University, editor-in-chief of the international academic journal Translating China, president of the International Sinology and Education Research Association, president of the Professional Committee of Traditional Culture Translation and International Communication, executive president of the Chinese Bilingual Research Association of the Chinese Pre-Qin History Society, vice president of the Chinese Chinese Language Education Research Association, and his translation works have been praised as "the most beautiful Chinese-English translation in history", "Divine translation" and "God Restoration".
Biosketch of the Translator:
ZHAO Yanchun, Professor of English at Shanghai University, Director of Shanghai University Center for Translation and Publishing, Editor of Translating China, President of International Sinology and Education Society, President of Chinese Culture Translation and International Promotion Committee, Executive President of Chinese Classics Bilinguals’ Association, Vice President of China Language Education Association, a proponent of the principle of translating poesie into poesie and classic into classic. His translations have been widely reported and acclaimed as the unprecedented Chinese-English translation, the best, the choice, the cream.
Column planning: Jin Shikai
Column editors-in-chief: Zhao Yanchun, Mo Zhenbao
Editor: Lv Wenpeng
Author of this issue: Wang Guan
Translator of this issue: Zhao Yanchun
Chinese-English recitation: Zhu Shengjie
English Calligraphy: Ling Guangyi
Typesetting of this issue: Manman
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