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:

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.

The biography in Qin Shi begins:

His poem Bianshui Liu established the structure for the later ci pai Chang Xiang Si.

 
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1. No sources mentioned (Return)

2. 11 lines (Return)

3. HJAS 57, pp. 53-4 (Return)

4. Not yet translated. (Return)

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