Learning Chinese poetry.

I cringe hours later at my mis-pronounciation of the first word (memorised as 'duo shao qian' ie how much, sometimes written shao4 or tone 3. Never mind, a lesson hard learnt. Also, my stress and cadence is all wrong, on consideration I at this reading don't fully understand the message.It is a very well known and easy poem to memorise, a small boy leaves the village, he returns as an older man, children don't know him, where you from? As with all Chinese poetry it provides much food for thought. He4 Zhi1 Zhang1 is the pot and catalogued as no.191 in the usual collection of 300 Tang Poems. http://www.china.org.cn/learning_chinese/2007-06/05/content_1212456.htm

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[valleyuno]

A dog, a bee and Chinese poetry in a car, what a combination!

[mitsubishi777]

Some simplified characters aren't familiar to me. I prefer traditional characters to simplified. I think traditional characters are more elegant and beautiful than simplified.