Yong Huai Gu Ji, No. 1 (咏怀古迹·其一) — Du Fu
A free printable Chinese handwriting worksheet for Du Fu's Tang dynasty poem "Yong Huai Gu Ji, No. 1 (咏怀古迹·其一)", with pinyin, stroke-order guides, and Chinese writing practice grids.
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Original Poem
支离东北风尘际，漂泊西南天地间。
三峡楼台淹日月，五溪衣服共云山。
羯胡事主终无赖，词客哀时且未还。
庾信平生最萧瑟，暮年诗赋动江关。
Pinyin
zhī lí dōng běi fēng chén jì， piāo bó xī nán tiān dì jiān。
sān xiá lóu tái yān rì yuè， wǔ xī yī fu gòng yún shān。
jié hú shì zhǔ zhōng wú lài， cí kè āi shí qiě wèi hái。
yǔ xìn píng shēng zuì xiāo sè， mù nián shī fù dòng jiāng guān。
English Meaning
Broken apart in the wind and dust of the northeast, drifting in the southwest between heaven and earth. Among the Three Gorges, towers linger through sun and moon; in the Five Streams, people share clouds and mountains with me. The Jie rebel served his lord with treachery to the end; the poet, grieving the times, has still not gone home. Yu Xin's whole life was bleakness — yet in old age his poems stirred the rivers and passes.
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About the Poem
The first of Du Fu's five 'Meditations on Historic Sites', written in Kuizhou. He reads his own displacement through Yu Xin, the sixth-century poet-exile whose late work gave homesickness its lasting voice.
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