滕王阁序

滕王閣序
Téngwánggé xù
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng, Wang Bo's Tang-dynasty piece of parallel prose

Examples

HSK 2
《 Téngwánggé xù 》 shì Wáng Bó èrshí duō suì shí xiě de.
Wang Bo wrote the "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng" in his twenties.
HSK 7-9
《 Téngwánggé xù 》 lǐ de " luòxiá yǔ gūwù qí fēi, qiū shuǐ gòng cháng tiān yí sè " xiě de shì Nánchāng de qiūjǐng.
The lines "sunset clouds fly with a lone wild duck, the autumn water shares one colour with the endless sky" in the "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng" describe autumn in Nanchang.

Tips

history
王勃 wrote it around 675, on his way to visit his father, at a banquet the governor of Hongzhou (modern 南昌) held in the pavilion that Prince Teng, a son of the first Tang emperor, had built. He drowned a year or so later, still in his twenties.
culture
It is the source of 萍水相逢 'strangers meeting by chance' and 人杰地灵 'a great land breeds great people', and it made 老当益壮 'old but still vigorous' famous.

Stroke Order

滕 Téng
王 wáng
阁 gé
序 xù