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With a laugh, everything
comes to an end. Years
pass, but the story retains
its sheen.
殆t� 4�
Has there ever been such an
ending, even in ancient
tales?
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还将 s�
The story began with me,
and I too shall end it.
歹 鼄道场
《 花 !方
At this Taoist mountain
temple, The Peach Blossom
Fan must take its
conclusion.
库利�( }
�u� �
Ma Shiying has been struck
by lightning on a mountain
top, while Ruan Dacheng fell
from a towering peak.
� 丽昙 �
昆 } 7
Li Zhenli has married
another, and Su Kunsheng
gathers firewood.
� ��pu揽
I have now exchanged my
costume for that of a Taoist
priest. In this guise,
看两个硈来�
I shall attend to those led
astray by the wildness of
their passions.
【 �
; � %6
Desolate I wander, distant
my only beloved.
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� �z
Daunting the walls between
us, these thousand, ten
thousand, mountains. Only
the faithful oriole knows my
heart.
尽
尽u
-All is madness.
-All is folly.
腚不�+
Cannot the oriole bring
news of my love?
熬� 瞭
Sorrow! I return to my lonely
abode.
� 纑�
What girl is that, who, tender
like a bud on the branch,
reclines on the fence?
� ~�? 鸪
Can it be my Xiangjun?
��
-Fangyu!
-Xiangjun!
wk�
-Oh, beloved! How I have
yearned for you!
-Xiangjun!
【瘾吏峥
q;
How cruel the day of our
parting!
砑
In old stories, the magpies
formed bridges to let lovers
meet for their trysts,
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But the walls which divided
us were higher than the sky,
far too high to be crossed
by letters.
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出来范�= 觯
-Our dreams were vain, and
love was quickly fleeting.
-Oh, the winding ways we
travelled!
�鳄n
�呆Φ�
Who are you, that dares to
speak of love in this place?
坏莱�
}on��
The Taoist temple is pure,
and certainly no place for
sly men to woo and flirt with
women.
贷安
�来n �
Your words are unjust! It is
in the nature of men and
women to court and marry.
历癔欢 �
�5
The sorrow of parting, the
joy of reunion: love has its
own laws. What matter, pray
tell, is it of yours?
硈!硈
You are besotted by your
passions.
�构� �
莱� �
Today, the walls of the
imperial city are crumbling
and overgrown with
wormwood.
;闯�
� : 砾
The bridges are decrepit,
the courtyards heaped with
smashed bricks.
醮y�
患父�儿饿
All that remains of your
human world is a few
hungry beggars.
趵国� ��
君�8�
And the nation, your family,
the emperor, your parents—
what, now, is left of all
these?
【北盍
} 安t�
'w髁 5�
The mountain pines, the wild
grasses, here and there a
flower. This is the Nanjing
you returned to.
�>�� ?z�
Heaped bodies of defeated
soldiers, emaciated horses
on the battlefields.
磞� �
出�道
The sun has set on your
human world.
【� �
盎 �
护9长v0y
Fires rage uncontrolled, the
trees that shielded the
imperial graves now are
badly scorched.
}:
�"�8�
Herds of goats roam the
countryside, the guards of
the imperial tombs have long
since fled.
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� Π 兜苯
The crypts are covered in
feathers and the filth of bats.
Withered branches and fallen
leaves cover the imperial
steps.
砑纇
炼 龙碑�
Who, now, will keep them
clean? Who, now, will make
offerings? Shepherd boys
crumble pieces off the
imperial steles.
【沉东�
簆p�
秡 0�
The marble columns have
toppled, the palace walls are
fallen in the mud.
� 璃
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d/ 8常朝
The glazed tiles in fragments,
the jade latticing removed,
the palaces a roost for birds.
�l环
见几个儿饿
The imperial paths are
overgrown with artemisia,
and strewn with the corpses
of starved beggars.
【� �
;淳 t皘
巾� 坏槛当潮
Perhaps you will ask after
the old riverside mansions—
but the paper windows are
torn, the thresholds long
since flooded.
�5?尔 �
当��:处
All that remains is blinding
desolation. Where are they
now, those beautiful women;
or the music that made them
dance?
皍船� 不
~ > �
No more lantern boats for
the festivals, no shops
selling wine for the holidays.
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Only gulls still glide about,
only the river still rushes.
�)蝶�
� �个
Butterflies flit among the
tender chrysanthemums; but
no one bears witness to their
blooms.
【沽谰】
� 臧 �
緕0 �
Do you recall the bridge that
crossed the stream? Not one
plank remains.
畛�
�u
The uncaring light of the sun
fades over the few remaining
inhabitants,
； 髁��
and a single weeping willow.
【+搅
5�� :
If you walk among the old
courtyards,
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膊�!.
you may walk wherever you
please; not even dogs keep
watch.
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不过)�&霾
Only dilapidated wells, only
mossy piles of bricks, only
steps covered in weeds.
俺� �;� 趿�
尽儿�
And what of the flowers, the
willows that we planted with
our own hands? Anyone can
pick them as he pleases.
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夯 砑厨
And who can even tell from
the ruins what house this
might once have been?
硈!硈
Ah, how you are besotted by
your passions!
� 佃x�
緓 欢�
All has crumbled; but your
love— why have you not
dispensed with it?
【� d豇*竪】
俺 � uz �
At dawn, I have heard the
oriole sing by the great
houses of Nanjing,
;搭开
and seen the flowers in
bloom, by the riverbank
pavilions.
愍道 聩�
Who was to know that it
could vanish so easily?
�� � �
�� �聆�
��
I saw them build the
courtesan's quarters, saw
them feast and make merry.
But I saw, too, how the
building collapsed.
&� �
Now moss covers those
piles of broken bricks.
俺�流觉
将� 隹幢�
I, too, was once taken in by
opulence, but, over fifty
years, I have at last seen
through this rise and fall.
��
*澈箍
The old families no longer
live in those houses; and
the ghosts' nocturnal
wailing echoes on the lake.
符 (
The houses of power have
become the roosts of birds.
�} 緙扯�u
不 |换�
Broken dreams are the most
real, and sights once seen are
hard to forget. Though it may
seem hard to believe, the old
dynasty has already fallen.
�)话
醯! 沽 �
忽
These few words have
caused me to break into
cold sweat. It is as if I had
woken from a dream.
� �
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-Do you understand?
-I do.
�
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-And you?
-I too comprehend.
� �;都�
�刘腊
Very well. Now that you have
learnt the truth, exchange
your worldly clothes for
Taoist attire.
歹啦� h{
�w�;
-Only now do I see how the
great way enlightens.
-How I regret my passions!
Now I perceive that all was
illusion.
� �
Even people are but
figments.
� 皈江
穛� 嚼
I have written these laments
for you. Intone them sadly,
and grow old.
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