秋天 qiūtiān
calkins
October 20, 2008, 03:03 AM posted in General Discussion
qiūtiān
秋天
Example Sentence
T 秋天的天氣十分清朗。
S 秋天的天气十分清朗。
qiūtiān de tiānqì shífēn qīnglǎng.
Autumn's weather is very clear and bright.
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helenren
October 23, 2008, 08:35 AMRJ
It is my pleasure !If you like I can explain the other part of the pome
helenren
October 21, 2008, 08:14 AMcalkins,送你一首关于秋天的诗歌it is my favorite
塞 下 秋 来 风 景 异，
衡 阳 雁 去 无 留 意。
四 面 边 声 连 角 起，
千 嶂 里，
长 烟 落 日 孤 城 闭。
浊 酒 一 杯 家 万 里，
燕 然 未 勒 归 无 计，
羌 管 悠 悠 霜 满 地。
人 不 寐，
将 军 白 发 征 夫 泪。
the poem wrote by 范仲淹 ,a chinese famous poet,song dynasity.
it vivid described a picture that a desolate autumn in border area and the hard army life of old china
异 yi
意 yi
起 qi
里 li
闭 bi
计 ji
地 di
异yi和它们是压韵的，因为韵母都是 i
cassielin
October 21, 2008, 11:31 AM
bababardwan
October 21, 2008, 03:34 AMcalkins,
You've outdone yourself yet again.I immediately thought it was going to represent Autumn.But what a stunning photo.I love the contrast of the vivid colours in the foreground with the haziness of the background obscuring everything beyond [including the sun perhaps by the looks of it]
calkins
October 21, 2008, 09:43 PMThanks everyone for your comments and contributions! This group is about 2 of my favorite things....photography and Chinese.
helenren, thank you for this Autumn poem from 范仲淹. I don't know many of these words, can anyone translate it? Thanks.
helenren
October 22, 2008, 06:34 AMcalkins
Old chinese poem is complex and not easily understood even by chinese natives ,especially this one.
It hard to useing my poor poor English to translate it .I just have a try .Anyone see this can just grin :)
helenren
October 22, 2008, 07:26 AMfor starters,I'd like to say that I do not translate but explain
塞 下 (border area)/秋 / 来(coming)/ 风 景(view landscape )异(different)，autumn alaways beautiful but not in border area.the view there changed when autumn coming .
衡 阳 (an old name of a city in border area)/雁 (a kind of bird,looks like dark gooses,can fly to migrate) /去（fly away) /无 留 (stay)意。even the bird fly away ,without a little missing ,or no feel of lingering.
the poetic imagery is very beatiful .
四 面(on all sides)/ 边 声(song)/ 连 角(a kind of old horn) 起(声音渐渐吹响）， the quiet and isolate city have surround with the enemy who was sing the songs to celebrate the victory . I think noting can be more desperate than this.
千 嶂 （mountain）里，see the view from the endless and overlapping mountains.
长 烟(long smoke)/ 落 日(Sunset )/ 孤 (Isolate)城(city） 闭( closed)。 citys in old china all have gates,when the night of a day or something dangerous happened ,the gatewatcher would closed the gate.but here,the poet wanted to picture the empty and defeated city and how desolate the autumn here.
RJ
October 22, 2008, 09:23 AMThanks Brent and Helen,
Helen your explanation is very nice. Better than a translation. Thank you for the poem.
lunetta
October 21, 2008, 05:38 PMWow, Calkins! I haven't had much time the last couple of months for poking about in the conversations and just now realized what I'm missing out on. Thanks for putting up this group! Except you know, now I have to work my way back through all the posts which I totally don't have time for. ;-)
bazza
October 20, 2008, 10:11 PMCool photo.