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白雪歌送武判官归京

白雪歌送武判官歸京
Báixuě Gē Sòng Wǔ Pànguān Guī Jīng
quotation

Meanings

  1. 1 Song of the White Snow, seeing Judge Wu off on his return to the capital
  2. 2 (fig.) a canonical frontier-farewell poem title of the Tang
  3. 3 (lit.) white-snow song seeing-off Wu judge returning capital

Examples

HSK 6
课本里收录的白雪歌送武判官归京是边塞诗的代表作。
Kèběn lǐ shōulù de Báixuě Gē Sòng Wǔ Pànguān Guī Jīng shì biān sài shī de dàibiǎozuò.
The textbook piece 'Song of the White Snow, seeing Judge Wu off on his return to the capital' is a representative work of frontier poetry.
HSK 7-9
白雪歌送武判官归京里的忽如一夜春风来，千树万树梨花开是名句。
Báixuě Gē Sòng Wǔ Pànguān Guī Jīng lǐ de hūrúyīyèchūnfēnglái, qiānshùwànshùlíhuākāi shì míng jù.
The famous line from 'Song of the White Snow, seeing Judge Wu off on his return to the capital' - 'as though overnight the spring wind had come, and on a thousand, ten-thousand trees, pear blossoms bloom.'

Tips

history
Title of a long poem by 岑参 (Cen Shen, Tang, ~754 CE) composed at the Tang military frontier in the northwest (probably Luntai / Beiting in today's Xinjiang), bidding farewell to fellow officer Judge Wu: 北风卷地白草折，胡天八月即飞雪。忽如一夜春风来，千树万树梨花开... 山回路转不见君，雪上空留马行处 (The north wind rolls the earth, white grass snaps; over Hu skies, snow flies in the eighth month. As though overnight a spring wind came, on a thousand, ten-thousand trees, pear blossoms bloom... the mountain turns, the road winds, I see you no more - only hoofprints left on snow). The defining poem of Tang 边塞诗 (frontier verse).
usage
判官 (pànguān) here = a Tang judicial/advisory officer in a military governor's staff, NOT the modern word 'judge.' 归京 = returning to the capital Chang'an. The title is read as a unit; it is usually abbreviated to 《白雪歌》 in criticism.

Stroke Order

白 bái
雪 xuě
歌 gē
送 sòng
武 wǔ
判 pàn
官 guān
归 guī
京 jīng