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Undaunted
was General Chen Xuanli,7 with spear and axe, he exercised loyal ardor.
Du Fu - 5
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Journey North 343 With this move we can clear Qingzhou and Xuzhou,1 then we can immediately swallow Heng and Jie.
2 Frost and dew gather in the vast heavens, 116 there is stern deadliness in the atmosphere of justice.
3 Disaster turns to the Year for Destroying the Hu; the situation produces the Month for Seizing the Hu.
How can the Hu?
s fated span last long?
?
120 it is not fitting that Imperial Rule be cut off.
I think back to when the panic first began, what happened was different from all precedent.
The corrupt minister at last was chopped to mince,4 124 and his evil partners were then swept away.
We would never have heard of Xia or Yin?
s decline had they executed Bao and Da midway.
5 Zhou and Han achieved a second rising?
128 Xuan and Guang were truly discerning and wise.
6 Undaunted was General Chen Xuanli,7 with spear and axe, he exercised loyal ardor. Were it not for you, the people would all be gone, 132 yet the dynasty still lives unto this day. 1 Qingzhou and Xuzhou were two prefectures in the east, deep in An Lushan? s territory. 2 Heng and Jie are mountains in the northeast. 3 ? Stern deadliness,? susha ? ? , is an attribute of autumn, the season of war and punishment. The qi (? atmosphere? ) is both the weather and the spiritual force of the season. 4 The reference is to Yang Guozhong. 5 Daji ? ?
6 Undaunted was General Chen Xuanli,7 with spear and axe, he exercised loyal ardor. Were it not for you, the people would all be gone, 132 yet the dynasty still lives unto this day. 1 Qingzhou and Xuzhou were two prefectures in the east, deep in An Lushan? s territory. 2 Heng and Jie are mountains in the northeast. 3 ? Stern deadliness,? susha ? ? , is an attribute of autumn, the season of war and punishment. The qi (? atmosphere? ) is both the weather and the spiritual force of the season. 4 The reference is to Yang Guozhong. 5 Daji ? ?
