Su Shi: Better Having No Meat In Eating Than Having No Bamboos In Living 蘇東坡 寧可食無肉 不可居無竹 Poem by Frank Yue
Su Shi: Better Having No Meat In Eating Than Having No Bamboos In Living 蘇東坡 寧可食無肉 不可居無竹
"Better having no meat in eating"
-by Su Shi (1036-1101)
-Translated by Frank C Yue
Better having no meat in eating
Than having no bamboos in living.
No meat -one becomes thin, one will find;
No bamboos -one can ne'er be refined.
寧可食無肉宋 · 蘇東坡
寧可食無肉， 不可居無竹，
無肉使人瘦， 無竹使人俗。
Friday, December 4, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: character,lifestyle
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