Chinese poems · 李白 Li Bai · Tang dynasty
早发白帝城 Leaving Baidi at Dawn
Written as Li Bai was pardoned from exile: a light boat racing down the Yangtze gorges, a thousand li in a day.
朝辞白帝彩云间，
At dawn I leave Baidi among the bright clouds;
千里江陵一日还。
a thousand li to Jiangling, back in a single day.
两岸猿声啼不住，
On both banks the apes cry without end,
轻舟已过万重山。
and my light boat has passed ten thousand mountains.
What does 早发白帝城 mean?
早发白帝城 is “Leaving Baidi at Dawn”. Written as Li Bai was pardoned from exile: a light boat racing down the Yangtze gorges, a thousand li in a day.
What is the pinyin of 早发白帝城?
zhāo cí bái dì cǎi yún jiān / qiān lǐ jiāng líng yī rì huán / liǎng àn yuán shēng tí bù zhù / qīng zhōu yǐ guò wàn chóng shān.
Who wrote 早发白帝城?
Li Bai (李白), a poet of the Tang dynasty.
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Poems over a thousand years old; the English and pinyin are ours, the pinyin as Chinese schools teach it.