Tang poems 唐诗 >> 鸟鸣涧 - 王维
王维 (Wang Wei) 唐朝 Tang Dynasty
Rén xián guìhuā luò, yè jìng chūnshān kōng.
人闲桂花落，夜静春山空。
yuè chū jīng shān niǎo, shí míng chūn jiàn zhōng.
月出惊山鸟，时鸣春涧中。
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王維：Wang Wei (699–759), was a Chinese poet, musician, painter, and politician during the Tang dynasty. Twenty-nine of his poems were included in the highly influential 18th-century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.
- 鸟鸣涧：The Gully of Twittering Birds
- 人闲：when I have an idle moment
- 桂花：sweet-scented osmanthus
- 落：fall
- 夜静：night is quiet
- 春山空：spring mountain is empty
- 月出：the moon rises
- 惊山鸟：(the moon)startle mountain birds
- 时鸣：(birds) sing and twitter from time to time
- 春涧中：in the spring gully
In an idle moment, I watch osmanthus flowers fall on the ground.
Spring hills are empty in the silent night.
The rising moon startles mountain birds, and they sing and twitter in the spring gully.