归去来兮辞

歸去來兮辭

Guīqù lái xī cí

proper noun

Meanings

1 Homeward Bound, Tao Yuanming's rhapsody of 405 on giving up office to go home to his farm

Characters

come! (particle urging oneself)

ah (exclamatory particle)

ci, a rhymed prose-poem

Examples

HSK 7-9

《归去来兮辞》是陶渊明辞官回家时写的。

《 Guīqù lái xī cí 》 shì Táo Yuānmíng cíguān huí jiā shí xiě de.

"Homeward Bound" was written by Tao Yuanming when he gave up his post and went home.

HSK 7-9

读《归去来兮辞》，能感受到陶渊明回到田园的快乐。

Dú 《 Guīqù lái xī cí 》, néng gǎnshòu dào Táo Yuānmíng huídào tiányuán de kuàilè.

Reading "Homeward Bound", you can feel Tao Yuanming's joy at going back to his fields and garden.

Tips

history

In 405 陶渊明 resigned as magistrate of Pengze after about eighty days, saying he would not bow and scrape for five pecks of rice, and wrote this piece on going home. It opens 归去来兮，田园将芜胡不归 'Let me go home! My fields are going to weeds, why not return?' It is also titled 归去来辞.

culture

欣欣向荣 'flourishing' comes from its line 木欣欣以向荣 'the trees are glad and growing lush'.

Stroke Order

归 guī

去 qù

来 lái

兮 xī

辞 cí