Written in 1082 while
苏轼 was in exile at Huangzhou. The cliff he visited was probably not the battlefield of 208, where
周瑜 burned the fleet of
曹操, and the poem itself hedges with
人道是 'people say'. It opens
大江东去 'the great river flows east' and is the source of
江山如画 and
灰飞烟灭.
