Li Zhang – Yu Meiren (Lady Yu, the Royal Beauty)

Li Zhang – Master in Management 2020. IE Business School.

Reading:

Yu Meiren (Lady Yu, the Royal Beauty) by Li Yu (937-978).

Spring flowers and autumn moon, O when will all these ends?
How much of my past did I comprehend?
Last night, to my loft once more, the vernal east wind came;
In the moonlight, I could not bear to look back towards my homeland rid of my name.

Jade steps and carved railings may still as ever be there,
Though changed are the faces fair.
O how great, how grave, I ask, can my woe and sorrow be?
Just like the River’s swelling spring-tide waters rolling east to the sea.

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虞美人
春花秋月何时了，往事知多少？小楼昨夜又东风，故国不堪回首月明中！
雕阑玉砌应犹在，只是朱颜改。问君能有几多愁？恰似一江春水向东流。