Shēnqiū de hánshān shàng, fēngyè hóng de xiàng huǒ.
On the cold mountain in late autumn, the maple leaves are as red as fire.
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culture
Suzhou's 寒山寺 (Hanshan Temple) bears his name, and is famous from 张继's line 姑苏城外寒山寺, "beyond the walls of Gusu, Hanshan Temple". He took his name from Cold Cliff, where he lived on 天台山.
history
His poems reached America in the 1950s as the "Cold Mountain" poems in Gary Snyder's translations, and Jack Kerouac dedicated The Dharma Bums (1958) to him.
