采桑子

採桑子

Cǎisāngzǐ

proper noun

Meanings

1 Picking Mulberries, a ci tune pattern

Characters

suffix in tune names

Examples

HSK 7-9

欧阳修晚年住在颍州，写了十首《采桑子》。

Ōuyáng Xiū wǎnnián zhù zài Yǐngzhōu, xiě le shí shǒu 《 Cǎisāngzǐ 》.

In his last years Ouyang Xiu lived in Yingzhou and wrote ten ci to the tune Caisangzi.

Tips

culture

Also called 丑奴儿: 44 characters in two matching stanzas. 辛弃疾's 少年不识愁滋味 'as a youth I never knew the taste of sorrow' is written to it under that name, and 毛泽东's 《采桑子·重阳》 of 1929, with the line 战地黄花分外香 'the yellow flowers on the battlefield smell all the sweeter', under this one.

Stroke Order

采 cǎi

桑 sāng

子 zǐ