落霞与孤鹜齐飞

落霞與孤鶩齊飛

luòxiá yǔ gūwù qí fēi

quotation

Meanings

1 the setting glow flies together with a lone wild duck
2 sunset clouds and a solitary duck rise as one - peak image of parallel prose

Characters

setting, falling

rosy cloud, sunset glow

together, in unison

Examples

HSK 7-9

滕王阁上眺望，落霞与孤鹜齐飞，秋水共长天一色。

Téngwánggé shàng tiàowàng, luòxiá yǔ gūwù qí fēi, qiūshuǐ gòng chángtiān yísè.

Gazing from the Tengwang Pavilion, the setting glow flies with the lone duck, and the autumn water meets the sky in one color.

HSK 7-9

摄影展里有一张照片，恰好是‘落霞与孤鹜齐飞’的意境。

Shèyǐngzhǎn lǐ yǒu yì zhāng zhàopiàn, qiàhǎo shì ' luòxiá yǔ gūwù qí fēi ' de yìjìng.

One photo in the exhibition perfectly captured the feel of 'the setting glow flying with the lone duck.'

Tips

history

From Wang Bo 王勃's 《滕王阁序》 (Tang dynasty): the sunset glow flies with the lone wild duck; the autumn water shares one color with the long sky. Composed in a single sitting when the poet was still in his early twenties, it is the most celebrated parallel couplet in Chinese prose-poetry.

usage

鹜 (wild duck) is commonly misread as wú. The line is almost always quoted together with 秋水共长天一色.

Stroke Order

落 luò

霞 xiá

与 yǔ

孤 gū

鹜 wù

齐 qí

飞 fēi