春江花月夜

Chūnjiāng huā yuè yè

proper noun

Meanings

1 A Moonlit Night on the Spring River, Zhang Ruoxu's long early Tang poem
2 A Moonlit Night on the Spring River, a classic piece of Chinese instrumental music

Characters

Examples

HSK 7-9

张若虚只留下两首诗，《春江花月夜》是其中一首。

Zhāng Ruòxū zhǐ liúxià liǎng shǒu shī, 《 Chūnjiāng huā yuè yè 》 shì qízhōng yì shǒu.

Only two of Zhang Ruoxu's poems survive, and 'A Moonlit Night on the Spring River' is one of them.

HSK 7-9

音乐会上，乐团演奏了民乐《春江花月夜》。

Yīnyuèhuì shàng, yuètuán yǎnzòu le mínyuè 《 Chūnjiāng huā yuè yè 》.

At the concert, the orchestra played the traditional piece 'A Moonlit Night on the Spring River'.

Tips

culture

张若虚 wrote it around 700 on an old yuefu title from the southern Chen court. Its 36 lines move from the tide and the rising moon, 春江潮水连海平，海上明月共潮生, to the question of who first saw the moon, and to wives and husbands apart under it. It is often praised as 孤篇压全唐, 'one poem that outweighs the whole Tang'. The music of the same name was arranged in 1925 from an older pipa solo.

Stroke Order

春 chūn

江 jiāng

花 huā

月 yuè

夜 yè