Qiūtiān de hǎibiān, luòxiáyǔgūwùqífēi, qiūshuǐgòngchángtiānyīsè.
On an autumn shore, the sunset glow flies with the lone duck, and the autumn water merges with the sky into one color.
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From Wang Bo 王勃's Tang-era 《滕王阁序》: ‘落霞与孤鹜齐飞，秋水共长天一色。’ (The setting glow flies alongside the lone wild duck; the autumn water shares one color with the long sky.) Regarded as the most famous parallel couplet in Chinese prose-poetry.
usage
共 here = ‘together with / share’, not the modern ‘total.’ 长天 = the vast sky. Always quoted together with 落霞与孤鹜齐飞.
