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The golden cups, remaining in vain, were taken, 28 no more, the tasseled curtains blowing lightly. 6 Ruined ancestral temples, Heaven sent rain flying, burning palaces, fires lasting to daylight. The netting all fell down at dawn,7 32 camphor beams at night crashed down together. 1 At the time Suzong had a peace with the Tibetans. 2 That is, the general has authorization from the emperor to undertake military operations when required. 3 An Lushan. 4 Luoyang and Chang? an, taken by An Lushan? s troops. 5 Reed pipes were associated with the music of non-Han peoples. Thinwillow Camp, near Chang? an, was where the Han general Zhou Yafu camped his army to oppose a threat from the Xiongnu. 6 This describes the plundering of the imperial tombs. The golden cups were grave goods; the tassled curtains were used in offerings to the spirit of the deceased ruler. 7 Nets over the doors and windows of the palace to keep out birds.
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