Chinese Lessons
Experiencing Chinese
Experiencing Chinese
The pagoda, rising abruptly from earth,
Reaches to the very Palace of Heaven....
Thoughtful elation has no end:Onward I bear it to whatever come...
[Chinese Poems] To your hermitage here on the top of the mountain
To your hermitage here on the top of the mountain, I have climbed, without stopping, these ten miles.
Lying on a high seat in the south study,We have lifted the curtain-and we see the rising moon...
I have sailed the River of Yellow Flowers,Borne by the channel of a GREen stream...
Who is lovelier than she?Yet she lives alone in an empty valley.
On baoyu's birthday the young ladies held a drinking party in which they composed poems and much fun. Their service maids started a game of their own. Xiang Ling, Xue Fan's concubine, collected some flower and grass and began a grass game with the other.
Now that the sun has set beyond the western range,Valley after valley is shadowy and dim....
One day, Tanchun, Li Wen, Li Qi and Xing Youyan came to a pond. "Let's test our luck for the new year by fishing," Tanchun suggested to the rest of the girls. " Whoever has a catch will be lucky throughout the year." Everybody agreed. Tanchun started first.
[Extensive Reading] Ancient tale: Seeking plum Blossoms in snow
Suddenly, lady Jia noticed that out in the snow stood an ethereal, beautiful young lady in a fur drape, accompanied by a servant girl holding a branch of plum blossoms. It was a scene just like a picture...