new year’s comes but blooms don’t growMarch nears sur-prised grass sprouts growyet white snow thinks spring’s come lateand falls through trees like blooms blow 春 雪 韩愈新 年 都 未 有 芳 花二 月 初 驚 見 草 芽白 雪 卻 嫌 春 色 晚故 穿 庭 樹 作 飛 花
Spring Snow
Han Yu
Translated from the Chinese
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Han Yu (Chinese: 韓愈; 768 – 25 December 824), courtesy name Tuizhi (Chinese: 退之), was a Chinese prose writer, poet, and government official of the Tang dynasty who significantly influenced the development of Neo-Confucianism. Described as “comparable in stature to Dante, Shakespeare or Goethe” for his influence on the Chinese literary tradition, Han Yu stood for strong central authority in politics and orthodoxy in cultural matters. He is often considered to be among China’s finest prose writers.
Jonathan Stalling (Chinese: 石江山，思道林; born June 24, 1975) is an American poet, scholar, editor, translator, professor, and inventor who works at the intersection of English and Chinese. He is the Harold J & Ruth Newman Chair for US-China Issues and Co-Director of the Institute for US-China Issues, and is Professor of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is also the affiliate English professor at the University of Oklahoma where he serves as the founding curator of the Chinese Literature Translation Archive (CLTA), and as a founding editor of Chinese Literature Today (CLT) journal and as the editor of the CLT book series published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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