Dēng Guànquè Lóu
Climbing Stork Tower
by Wang Zhihuan (688-742)
When the sun shines over the mountains
As the Yellow River flows to the sea.
If one wants a better view,
(Wants to see a thousand miles)
Climb another floor.
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Báirì yī shān jǐn,
Huánghé rù hǎiliú.
Yù qióng qiānlǐ mù,
Gèng shàng yī céng lóu.
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Wikipedia has only a short entry on Wang Zhihuan:
Wang Zhihuan was a Chinese poet of the Kaiyuan era of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. He is best known for his jueju “Climbing Stork Tower.”
No collection of Wang’s poems seems to have been made. Only six of his poems survive, all of which are quatrains, but almost every one has become a minor classic.
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