wǔ武líng陵chūn春·chūn春wǎn晚

Li Qingzhao wrote this in late spring of 1135, when she was in her fifties and living in Jinhua, in today's Zhejiang. A few years before, the Jin army had taken the north and she had fled south. Her husband Zhao Mingcheng had died of illness in 1129, and most of the books and art they had collected together were lost. Alone and far from home, she wrote this lyric as spring was ending.

这首词写于宋高宗绍兴五年（1135年）的暮春。那时李清照五十多岁，住在金华（今浙江金华）。几年前，北方被金兵占领，她逃到南方；丈夫赵明诚在1129年病逝，两人一起收藏的书画文物也大多丢失了。她一个人漂泊在外，在春天快要结束的时候写下了这首词。

Li Qingzhao (1084–around 1155), who called herself the Lay Scholar Yi'an, was the most famous woman writer of ci in the Song dynasty. In the first half of her life she lived happily and in peace with her husband. After the Northern Song fell she lost her country and her home and fled from place to place. Her later lyrics are about loneliness and grief, in plain words but with deep feeling, and this one shows that well.

李清照（1084—约1155），号易安居士，宋代最有名的女词人。前半生她和丈夫过着安稳美满的日子；北宋灭亡后，她国破家亡，四处逃难。她后期的词多写孤独和悲伤，语言很平常，感情却很深，这首词就是代表。

It opens with the wind stopping and the flowers fallen: spring is almost over. Late in the day she still cannot be bothered to comb her hair, because she has no heart to look nice. The line 'things remain, but he is gone, and everything is over' sums up the pain of losing her husband and her home. Before she can say a word, the tears come. In the second half she hears that spring is still lovely at the Twin Streams and thinks of going out to cheer herself up. But at once she worries: how could such a tiny boat hold so much sorrow? Sorrow cannot be seen or touched, yet she gives it weight, so heavy that a little boat could not carry it. This picture is fresh and true, and it has become one of the most famous lines ever written about sorrow.

开头写风停花落，春天就要过去了。她到了很晚还懒得梳头，因为没有心思打扮。“物是人非事事休”七个字，说尽了失去亲人和家园的痛：东西都还在，人却不在了。想说点什么，泪先流下来。下半首她听说双溪春光还好，也想去散散心，可马上又担心：那么小的船，怎么装得下这么多的愁？愁本来是看不见、摸不着的，她却让愁有了重量，重到小船都载不动。这个比喻又新奇又真切，成了写愁的千古名句。