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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Respectfully Seeing Off Guo Yingyi, Vice Censor in Chief and Chief Minister 311 The sinking sun lights up your carriage awning, a strong wind ripples the streamers and flags.
Pines mourn in the cold of Tianshui, 12 sands roil in the clarity of the Mountains of Snow.
Barbarians, now on peaceful terms, still think on kind grace,1 in protecting the frontier we dare not alarm them.
Since ancient days in those foreign regions 16 one guards the peace by demonstrating the authority to campaign.
2 At Yan and Ji the huge boar ran amok,3 Zhou and Qin were struck by the rampant leviathan.
4 How the Central Plain has been cast in darkness!
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20 and the remaining spawn still rage at will.
Arrows entered Zhaoyang Palace, reed pipes moaned at Thinwillow Camp.
5 Palace ladies sobbed on their red sleeves, 24 princes of the blood went in commoners? clothes. A demon constellation shook the Pole Star, the aura of killing lay level over the imperial tombs. 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.
5 Palace ladies sobbed on their red sleeves, 24 princes of the blood went in commoners? clothes. A demon constellation shook the Pole Star, the aura of killing lay level over the imperial tombs. 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.
