Tang poem · seven-character quatrain唐诗 · 七言绝句
zhāng张hù祜Zhang Hu · Tang唐
The Jiling Terrace, No. 1
rì日guāng光xié斜zhào照jí集líng灵tái台
hóng红shù树huā花yíng迎xiǎo晓lù露kāi开
zuó昨yè夜shàng上huáng皇xīn新shòu授lù箓
tài太zhēn真hán含xiào笑rù入lián帘lái来
Underlined words have notes: tap one. The Pinyin button below shows or hides all pinyin. 一 and 不 are marked with the tone you actually say.字下有虚线的，点开有注释。下方的“拼音”按钮可以显示或隐藏全部拼音。“一”“不”标的是实际读出来的变调。
Yang Yuhuan was first the wife of Prince Shou, a son of Emperor Xuanzong. The histories say the emperor wanted her for himself. To cover this up, he first had her become a Daoist nun named Taizhen, and some years later made her his consort. This poem is about that. The Jiling Terrace was a place for worshipping the gods in the Huaqing Palace and should be pure and solemn. By placing this secret palace affair there, the poet makes his mockery clear.
杨玉环原来是唐玄宗儿子寿王的妃子。据史书记载，玄宗想把她留在自己身边，先让她出家做女道士，道号“太真”，几年后再封她为贵妃，用这个办法遮掩真相。这首诗就写这件事。集灵台是华清宫里祭神的地方，本该清净庄严，诗人却把它和这段宫中秘事放在一起，讽刺的意味很明显。
Zhang Hu was a Tang poet who never held a high post and traveled widely. He wrote many palace poems, poems about life at court. One that begins with home three thousand miles away and twenty years in the deep palace is very famous. His palace poems say little on the surface but carry deep meaning.
张祜，唐代诗人，一生没有做什么大官，常在各地漫游。他写了很多宫词，就是写宫廷生活的诗，有一首“故国三千里，深宫二十年”很有名。他写宫中故事，常常话不多说，却意味深长。
The first two lines are lovely: sunlight slants across the terrace of the gods, and red flowers open with dew, like a fairyland. The last two lines tell something shameful. Last night the emperor made her a nun, and today she walks smiling through his curtain. Becoming a nun should mean leaving the world for a pure life, but here it is a step into the emperor's rooms. The poet adds no comment. He just sets the holy place beside the deed, and readers see what he is mocking.
前两句写得很美：阳光斜照在祭神的高台上，红花带着露水开放，好像一片仙境。后两句却讲了一件不光彩的事：昨夜皇帝给她授了道箓，让她“出家”，今天她就含笑走进了皇帝的帘子里。本来做道士是要离开尘世、清心修行的，这里却成了进宫的台阶。诗人什么评论都不加，只把神圣的地方和这件事摆在一起，读者自然明白他在讽刺什么。