qīng清píng平yuè乐·chūn春guī归hé何chù处

This ci is about the sadness of seeing spring end. Spring is almost over, and the poet does not want it to go. He looks for it everywhere, as if it were a friend, asking people and then asking a bird. We do not know exactly when or where it was written. The poem never shows fallen flowers directly. Instead it treats spring as a person who can walk away and hide, which is an unusual and fresh idea.

这首词写暮春时节的惜春之情。春天快结束了，词人舍不得它走，就像对待一个朋友一样到处找它，问人，又问鸟。写作的具体时间和地点不清楚。全词没有直接写落花残红，而是把春天当成一个会走路、会躲起来的人来写，想象很特别。

Huang Tingjian (1045–1105), styled Luzhi, called himself the Daoist of Shangu. He came from Fenning in Hongzhou, today's Xiushui in Jiangxi. He was a Northern Song poet and calligrapher, and one of the Four Scholars who studied under Su Shi. People named the two of them together as Su and Huang. He founded the Jiangxi school of poetry, and his calligraphy is famous too. He was sent away to remote places several times and died in Yizhou.

黄庭坚（1045—1105），字鲁直，号山谷道人，洪州分宁（今江西修水）人，北宋诗人、书法家。他是苏轼的学生，“苏门四学士”之一，和苏轼并称“苏黄”。他是江西诗派的开创者，书法也非常有名。他一生几次被贬到偏远的地方，最后死在宜州。

This ci is like a child looking for a lost friend. It starts by asking: where has spring gone? All around it is lonely and still, with not even a footprint. So it asks anyone who knows to call spring back to live with us. The second stanza says no one knows, so let us ask the oriole. The oriole sings in spring every day, so surely it knows. But it sings and sings and no one understands. Then it turns and rides the wind away over the roses. When the roses bloom, spring is truly gone. The poet asks again and again and finds nothing. His love for spring hides in all this searching, both innocent and sad.

这首词像一个孩子在找走丢的小伙伴。开头就问：春天到哪里去了？四周冷冷清清，连脚印都没有。那就请知道的人帮忙，把它叫回来一起住吧。下片说：没人知道，那就问黄鹂吧，黄鹂天天在春天里唱歌，一定知道。可黄鹂叫了半天，没人听得懂，它一转身，顺着风飞过蔷薇花去了。蔷薇一开，春天就真的走了。一问再问，最后什么也没找到，惜春的心情就藏在这一次次的寻找里，又天真，又惆怅。