Chinese poems · 王维 Wang Wei · Tang dynasty
相思 Thinking of You
Red beans grow in the south, and in Chinese they are “beans of longing”: pick plenty, says the poet, they are what love is made of.
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红豆生南国，
Red beans grow in the southern land;
春来发几枝。
when spring comes, how many sprigs will grow?
愿君多采撷，
I hope you will pick plenty of them:
此物最相思。
these, more than anything, are longing.
What does 相思 mean?
相思 is “Thinking of You”. Red beans grow in the south, and in Chinese they are “beans of longing”: pick plenty, says the poet, they are what love is made of.
What is the pinyin of 相思?
hóng dòu shēng nán guó / chūn lái fā jǐ zhī / yuàn jūn duō cǎi xié / cǐ wù zuì xiāng sī.
Who wrote 相思?
Wang Wei (王维), 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.