Autumn | The moon is above the city of Chang-an

by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)

Translation by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971)

秋歌

Language: Chinese (中文)

長安一片月，
萬戶擣衣聲。
秋風吹不盡，
總是玉關情。
何日平胡虜，
良人罷遠征？

The following Cantonese transliteration uses the Jyutping system outlined by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. Numbers on the right of each syllable are tone marks.

Title: Dung1 go1

Coeng4 on1 jat1 pin3 jyut6,
Maan6 wu6 dou2 yi1 seng1.
cau1 fung1 ceoi1 bat1 zeon6,
zung2 si6 juk6 gwaan1 cing4.
ho6 jat6 ping4 wu4 lou5,
loeng4 jan4 baa6 jyun5 zing1?

The following Mandarin transliteration conforms to the Pinyin romanization rules drafted by Mainland China.

Title: Qiū gē

Cháng'ān yī piàn yuè,
Wàn hù dǎo yī shēng.
Qiū fēng chuī bù jìn,
Zǒng shì Yùguān qíng.
Hé rì píng húlǔ,
Liáng rén bà yuǎn zhēng?

Text Authorship:

by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "秋歌" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in English, a translation by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971) , first published 1922 ; composed by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir.
Also set in English, a translation by Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872 - 1945) , "Under the moon", appears in A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China, first published 1909 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir.

Researcher for this page: Lucas Shum

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Autumn

Language: English after the Chinese (中文)

The moon is above the city of Chang-an;
From ten thousand houses comes the sound of cloth-pounding;
The sad autumn wind blows, and there is no end
To my thought of you beyond the Jewel Gate Pass.
When will the barbarian foe be vanquished,
And you, my beloved, return from the far battlefield?

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Text Authorship:

by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971), first published 1922 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "秋歌"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891 - 1975), "Autumn", 1923, published 1924 [ voice and piano ], from The ballads of the four seasons, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-08
Line count: 6
Word count: 53