Tang poem · seven-character quatrain唐诗 · 七言绝句

tí题dū都chéng城nán南zhuāng庄

cuī崔hù护Cui Hu · Tang唐

Written at a Farm South of the Capital

qù去nián年jīn今rì日cǐ此mén门zhōng中

rén人miàn面táo桃huā花xiāng相yìng映hóng红

rén人miàn面bù不zhī知hé何chù处qù去

táo桃huā花yī依jiù旧xiào笑chūn春fēng风

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。

The corpus has the third line ending in zài, "where is she". The commonly taught text ends in qù, "where has she gone". Some editions also begin the line with zhǐ jīn, "right now".

资料库原文第三句作“人面不知何处在”，通行本作“人面不知何处去”。还有版本作“人面只今何处去”。

Line by line逐句翻译

去年今日此门中A year ago today, right inside this gate,去年的今天，就在这扇门里，
人面桃花相映红her face and the peach blossoms glowed red together.姑娘的脸和桃花互相映衬，一样红艳。
人面不知何处去Now I do not know where she has gone.如今姑娘不知道到哪里去了，
桃花依旧笑春风Only the peach blossoms still smile in the spring wind.只有桃花还和去年一样，在春风里笑着。

Words字词注释

此门中cǐ mén zhōng: cǐ mén zhōng: right inside this gate.此门中：就在这扇门里。
人面rén miàn: rén miàn: a person's face, here the face of the young woman.人面：人的脸，这里指那位姑娘的脸。
相映红xiāng yìng hóng: xiāng yìng hóng: glowing red together, each making the other look brighter.相映红：互相映衬，显得一样红润。
依旧yī jiù: yī jiù: just as before.依旧：还是像从前一样。
笑春风xiào chūn fēng: xiào chūn fēng: smiling in the spring wind. The blooming flowers are spoken of as smiling.笑春风：在春风里笑。把桃花盛开说成在笑。

Background创作背景

The Tang writer Meng Qi tells a story in "Stories Behind Poems". Cui Hu failed the jinshi exam. On the Qingming festival he went walking alone south of Chang'an. He came to a house full of peach blossoms and asked a young woman for water. Each left the other a good impression. The next Qingming he went back, but the gate was locked, so he wrote this poem on the door. The story is touching, but it is a tale from an old book of anecdotes and may not be all true.

据唐代孟棨《本事诗》记载：崔护考进士没考中，清明节那天独自到长安城南游玩，走到一户开满桃花的人家，向一位姑娘讨水喝，两人互相留下了好印象。第二年清明他又去，大门却锁着，他就在门上写下了这首诗。这个故事很动人，但它是笔记里的传说，不一定全是真的。

The poet作者

Cui Hu was a Tang poet from Boling, around today's Dingzhou in Hebei. He passed the jinshi exam in 796 and later became military governor of Lingnan. Few of his poems survive. This one is the most famous, and it gave Chinese the idiom "a face and peach blossoms", for someone you met once and lost.

崔护，唐代诗人，博陵（今河北定州一带）人。唐德宗贞元十二年（796年）考中进士，后来做到岭南节度使。他留下的诗不多，这首《题都城南庄》最有名，还留下了“人面桃花”这个成语。

The mood意境

In just twenty-eight characters, this poem tells a story of last year and this year. The first two lines remember: a year ago today, inside this gate, her face was as rosy as the peach blossoms, lovely as a painting. The last two lines return to now. Same place, same day, the peach blossoms bloom as before, but she is gone. The blossoms "smile" in the spring wind, which only makes it sadder. The flowers still smile, but the person is no longer there. The scene is unchanged, yet everything else has changed. Many people have felt this quiet sense of loss and longing, which is why the poem has never been forgotten.

这首诗只有二十八个字，讲了一个“去年”和“今年”的故事。前两句是回忆：去年今天，就在这扇门里，姑娘的脸和桃花一样红，美得像一幅画。后两句回到眼前：同一个地方，同一个日子，桃花照样开，可是人不见了。桃花“笑”春风，反而让人更难过——花还在笑，人却已经不在。景物没变，人事全非，这种淡淡的失落和怀念，很多人都有过，所以这首诗一直被人记住。