Chinese poems · 贾岛 Jia Dao · Tang dynasty
寻隐者不遇 Looking for the Hermit and Not Finding Him
A visitor asks a boy under a pine where his master is: gathering herbs somewhere on this mountain, lost in the clouds.
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松下问童子，
Under the pines I ask the boy;
言师采药去。
he says his master has gone to gather herbs,
只在此山中，
somewhere on this mountain,
云深不知处。
but the clouds are too deep to know where.
What does 寻隐者不遇 mean?
寻隐者不遇 is “Looking for the Hermit and Not Finding Him”. A visitor asks a boy under a pine where his master is: gathering herbs somewhere on this mountain, lost in the clouds.
What is the pinyin of 寻隐者不遇?
sōng xià wèn tóng zǐ / yán shī cǎi yào qù / zhǐ zài cǐ shān zhōng / yún shēn bù zhī chù.
Who wrote 寻隐者不遇?
Jia Dao (贾岛), a poet of the Tang dynasty.
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