晏殊

Yàn Shū

proper noun

Meanings

1 Yan Shu, Northern Song chancellor and ci poet

About Yan Shu

991–1055 · 诗人 poet

Child prodigy who became a Song chancellor and promoted 范仲淹 and 欧阳修. His ci on passing time include the 浣溪沙 that gave the phrase 似曾相识, 'as if met before'.

Also called 同叔、元献

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Examples

HSK 7-9

晏殊十四岁就被称为神童。

Yàn Shū shísì suì jiù bèi chēngwéi shéntóng.

Yan Shu was hailed as a child prodigy at fourteen.

HSK 7-9

“无可奈何花落去，似曾相识燕归来”是晏殊词里的名句。

" Wú kě nài hé huā luò qù, sì céng xiāngshí yàn guī lái " shì Yàn Shū cí lǐ de míngjù.

'Helpless, I watch the flowers fall; the swallows return, as if I knew them' is a famous couplet from a ci by Yan Shu.

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history

His son 晏几道 was also a fine ci poet, and father and son are known as 大晏 and 小晏, 'the elder and the younger Yan'.

culture

王国维 took three lines of his 《蝶恋花》, ending 望尽天涯路 'gazing to the end of the road at the sky's edge', as the first of the three stages of any great achievement: climbing high alone and looking far ahead.

Stroke Order

晏 Yàn

殊 shū

晏殊