2016年6月18日 星期六

長苦春來惱亂人

長苦春來惱亂人,
  可堪春過只逡巡;(「過」字的字劃不該這麼寫)
  青春向客自無意,
  強把多情著真春。(第四句不知是啥意旨?)」



In this poem, the emperor laments the coming of old age:
How spring makes me sad!
Timidly I bear the passing of spring.
The young lady has no feeling for me, 
She treats my love merely as that of a waning spring.


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長苦春來惱亂人 可堪春 理宗 趙昀


南宋 理宗 趙昀 行書 《長苦春來》 七絕詩 團扇
Quatrain on Late Spring
Artist:

Emperor Lizong (Chinese, 1205–64, r. 1224–64) Period:

Song dynasty (960–1279) Culture:

China Medium:

Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk Dimensions:

Image: 9 5/8 × 9 1/4 in. (24.4 × 23.5 cm) Classification:

Calligraphy Credit Line:

Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988 Accession Number:

1989.363.22


Not on view


A Song palace seal impressed on the left-hand side of this writing reads: "Treasure of imperial writing."




In his poem, the emperor laments the coming of old age:




How spring makes me sad!

Timidly I bear the passing of spring.

The young lady has no feeling for me,

She treats my love merely as that of a waning spring.




(Wen C. Fong, trans., in Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th-14th Century [New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992], p. 242.)


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