Autumn Comes / Li He, 秋來

Li He on autumn wind: Text, Pinyin, and Translation

Li He on autumn wind: Text, Pinyin, and Translation with original text, pinyin, a literal rendering, a readable translation, source location, key terms, and a careful modern reading.

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Li He Autumn Comes original Chinese pinyin translation meaning

Autumn Comes, Li He, 秋來: read "桐風驚心壯士苦，衰燈絡緯啼寒素。誰看青簡一編書，不遣花蟲粉空蠹。思牽..." before the English explanation.

Original text

桐風驚心壯士苦，衰燈絡緯啼寒素。誰看青簡一編書，不遣花蟲粉空蠹。思牽今夜腸應直，雨冷香魂弔書客。秋墳鬼唱鮑家詩，恨血千年土中碧。

Tong feng jing xin zhuang shi ku, shuai deng luo wei ti han su. Shui kan qing jian yi bian shu, bu qian hua chong fen kong du. Si qian jin ye chang ying zhi, yu leng xiang hun diao shu ke. Qiu fen gui chang Bao jia shi, hen xue qian nian tu zhong bi.

Literal layer

Paulownia wind startles the heart; the brave man suffers. By a failing lamp, the cricket cries through cold plain cloth. Who will look at one roll of writing on green slips and not let flower-insects powder it into empty worm-dust? Thought pulls tonight until the intestines should be straight; cold rain and fragrant spirit mourn the book guest. At autumn graves, ghosts sing Bao family poems; hateful blood for a thousand years turns green in the earth.

Readable layer

Li He's Autumn Comes is a dark autumn poem about wind, failing light, books, decay, rain, ghosts, and unresolved feeling hardened into color in the earth.

Poem on reclusion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access collection — **Poem on reclusion; Zhou Lianggong; Gift of Julia and John Curtis, 2020; The Metropolitan Museum of Art.**Poem on reclusion is used as a public-domain poem or landscape surface for line-order reading on Li He on autumn wind. The fit is semantic: the page asks readers to inspect Li He, 秋來 and the term tong feng, while the image remains illustrative rather than proof of the exact manuscript, author portrait, or historical scene.

Reader focus

What this page helps you decide

Li He's Autumn Comes is not a calm seasonal poem. Its autumn arrives as shock, suffering, failing lamp light, insect sound, threatened writing, cold rain, ghost song, and blood-colored resentment in the earth. The poem is difficult because its images do not simply describe weather. They turn autumn into a pressure on memory, writing, the body, and the dead. A responsible reading should keep that strangeness rather than replacing it with a neat mood label.

Watch tong feng, luo wei, qing jian; these terms decide where the literal layer and the readable layer separate.
Compare this page with Zhang Ji's night mooring and Du Mu's Qingming before treating Tang seasonal poems as one gentle mood.

The Poem Before Paraphrase

This block uses Autumn Comes, Li He, 秋來 as the anchor, with "桐風驚心壯士苦，衰燈絡緯啼寒素。誰看青簡一編書，不遣花蟲粉空..." kept in front of the explanation.

Full Text: The page uses all eight lines because Li He's poem builds by accumulation. Wind, lamp, insects, writing, rain, spirit, graves, ghosts, and blood all matter. Extracting only one image would make the poem easier but would hide the density that makes Li He difficult.

Paulownia Wind: Tong feng is not just autumn breeze. Paulownia can carry seasonal and literary associations, and the wind startles the heart. The opening immediately links weather to shock and suffering. The zhuang shi, the strong or brave man, is not untouched by the season.

Failing Lamp And Insect Cry: Shuai deng and luo wei create a small, cold interior. The failing lamp and cricket-like sound make the poem feel late, thin, and exposed. Han su, cold plain cloth, keeps the scene austere. This is far from a warm autumn landscape.

Images, Sound, And Emotional Turn

Threatened Writing: The question about qing jian, a written roll or slips, shifts the poem toward textual survival. Hua chong powdering or worming the text suggests decay. The poem worries not only about a person but about whether writing can avoid useless destruction.

Body Pulled By Thought: Si qian jin ye chang ying zhi is physically strange. Thought pulls so hard that the intestines should become straight. The poem lets emotion act on the body in an extreme way. That difficulty should not be over-polished in translation.

Cold Rain And Book Guest: Yu leng xiang hun diao shu ke brings cold rain and a fragrant spirit mourning the book guest. The phrase keeps literature, spirit, and grief together. The page reads shu ke as a figure tied to books and writing, not simply a generic traveler.

Keep the term set visible here: tong feng, luo wei, qing jian. The reading changes if one of these terms is translated too smoothly.

Translation Choices To Keep Visible

Ghosts And Bao Family Poems: The autumn graves and ghosts singing Bao family poems push the poem into the uncanny. Li He often works with startling, death-leaning images. The allusion should not be flattened into spooky atmosphere; it connects poetic memory with graveyard persistence.

Li He on autumn wind Translation Limit: This working translation stays close to the images even when the English feels unusual. That is intentional. A very smooth paraphrase would make Li He sound like ordinary autumn sadness. The page instead shows where the images are difficult, bodily, textual, and ghostly.

Li He on autumn wind Reading Payoff: This page differs from Du Mu's Qingming because Li He's autumn is inward, textual, and uncanny rather than a public seasonal road. It differs from Zhang Ji's night mooring because sound here comes from insects and ghosts rather than a temple bell. The article gives readers a source-based way to approach Li He's difficulty without pretending every image is simple.

The reading should end in one practical move: Compare this page with Zhang Ji's night mooring and Du Mu's Qingming before treating Tang seasonal poems as one gentle mood.

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Links chosen for reading movement

Zhang Ji's Night Mooring Text, Pinyin, and TranslationFrom Li He on autumn wind, open Zhang Ji's Night Mooring Text, Pinyin, and Translation to compare tong feng with a second checked passage; the path starts from Li He, 秋來, so the link has a specific reading job rather than a generic recommendation.Du Mu's Qingming Text, Pinyin, and TranslationFrom Li He on autumn wind, open Du Mu's Qingming Text, Pinyin, and Translation to test the translation boundary against a neighboring source; the path starts from Li He, 秋來, so the link has a specific reading job rather than a generic recommendation.Li Shangyin's Untitled Poem Text, Pinyin, and TranslationFrom Li He on autumn wind, open Li Shangyin's Untitled Poem Text, Pinyin, and Translation to move from this wording to a concrete reader workflow; the path starts from Li He, 秋來, so the link has a specific reading job rather than a generic recommendation.Liu Zongyuan's River Snow Text, Pinyin, and TranslationFrom Li He on autumn wind, open Liu Zongyuan's River Snow Text, Pinyin, and Translation to keep the next step tied to source evidence instead of a loose related list; the path starts from Li He, 秋來, so the link has a specific reading job rather than a generic recommendation.