This is a Field and Garden Dream
So I was going to paste in a poem that would explain the field and garden dream, but I couldn't find any one poem that would do. But here you can read a bunch. And here too.
Okay fine. Here is one poem.
Fields and Gardens by the River Qi (by Wang Wei)
I dwell apart by the River Qi,
Where the Eastern wilds stretch far without hills.
The sun darkens beyond the mulberry trees;
The river glistens through the villages.
Shepherd boys depart, gazing back to their hamlets;
Hunting dogs return following their men.
When a man's at peace, what business does he have?
I shut fast my rustic door throughout the day.
5 comments:
Your list of favorite movies will probably mess up someone's text mining project. They will think that land before time contains great similarities to Chinese field and garden poetry.
I do not know what a text mining project is. It sounds violent, and I am against blowing up books, so let me just say that at the outset.
Inspired by these field and garden dreams, I have posted my own sort of dream on my blogging site, which is titled "Too Broke to Blog". If anyone feels guilty about the amount of time I am spending doing something I am too broke to do, I can post an address for monetary contributions. I am a nice person who deserves your money.
By the way, I looked at your links to poems. They looked very pretty, but I couldn't read them as my Chinese isn't very good. I guess I will just have to imagine that they say some nice gardeny-type things.
Yeah, I can't read those poems either. Except for one almost, because I memorized it once.
And text mining doesn't involve blowing anything up. We just use big cranes and dig in sedimentary text.
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