I return to the place I was born (T'ao Ch'ien)
From my youth up I never liked the city.
I never forgot the mountains where I was born
The world caught me and harnessed me.
And drove me thirty years away from home
Migratory birds return to the same tree.
Fish find their way back to the pools where they were hatched.
I have been over the whole country
And come back at last to the garden of my childhood.
My Farm is only ten acres
The farm house has eight or nine rooms.
Elms and Willows shade the back garden
Peach Trees stand by the front door
The village is out off sight
You can hear dogs back in the alleys.
And The cocks crow in the mulberry trees
When you come from the gate into the court
You will find no mess
Peace and quiet live in every room
I am content to stay here for the rest of my life.
At last I have found myself
from "I return to the place I was born"
T'ao Ch'ien [KR]
p25 The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry
Edited by Eliot Weinberger
New Directions Publishing Corporation
New York, NY 10011
Midjourney: Chinese landscape oil painting, <POETRY>, by [Zhang Xiao]::3, by [Robert Rauschenberg]::2 --ar 3:2 --v 5
Zhang Xiao:
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Zhang Xiao, Shanxi No.1, 2007.
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My favorite part of Lost Tomb 2 is Zhang Qiling in episode 1 in disguise as a loud, overly-familiar, balding, middle-aged man, just yelling his ass off all over the place.
Because it means that in the canon of this story, Zhang Qiling is capable of imitating annoying old men, and I choose to believe that he is just mentally like "This is how all humans speak and act."
But also the way "Consultant Zhang" clings to Wu Xie and Pangzi immediately like "HELLO NEW BESTIES"... and then refuses to let go of Wu Xie's hand until well after it gets awkward (probably so Wu Xie can feel that two of his fingers are too long and he'll realize it's Zhang Qiling but still).
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