Cao Zhi: Fuelled By Beanstalks, Beans Are Boiling 曹植 煮豆燃豆萁 豆在釜中泣 Poem by Frank Yue
Cao Zhi: Fuelled By Beanstalks, Beans Are Boiling 曹植 煮豆燃豆萁 豆在釜中泣
QI BU SHI: XIONG DI:
"POEM COMPOSED IN SEVEN PACES: BROTHERS"
- by Cao Zhi (Wei of the Three Kingdoms)
- Translated by Frank C Yue
Fuelled by beanstalks, beans are boiling;
All the beans in the hot pot cry:
"From the same root we are sibling -
Why eagerly us do you fry? "
【七步詩】魏 · 曹植
煮豆燃豆萁，豆在釜中泣。
本是同根生，相煎何太急。
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: brother,hate,kingdom,life and death
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Poem composed within seven strides in court, or he'd face instant death, as ordered by his elder brother, the King of Wei.
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