Bai Juyi

Ronald Egan in his article "Music, Sadness and the Qin"3 writes that Bai Juyi mentions the qin over 160 times in his poetry. Qinshu Daquan (QQJC, Vol V) includes at least 19 of these, as follows:

Folio 19A, #10 (V. 416)
Folio 19A, #19 (V. 417)
Folio 19B, #48 - #54 (V. 426 [7 poems]),
Folio 20A, #15 - #20 (V. 443 [6 poems]),
Folio 20A, #79 (V. 450) and
Folio 20B, #10 - #12 (V. 451 [3 poems]).

The Freer Gallery has online his poem "Three Friends of the Northern Window", the friends being wine, poetry and the qin), in calligraphy by Bada Shanren. It includes a translation by Stephen D. Allee of the last 10 of the 34 lines.

Further details in preparation.

Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

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