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A few years after An Lushan rebelled against the Tang
the dynasty's western borders lay undefended.
The Tubos went on the warpath.
Late winter, the first year of Emperor Daizong's reign.
高中丞 Governor Gao!
我们大军就要来了 Our main forces are on their way.
你们这小小城堡里的人 You people of this little fort
都得死 are all going to die.
弃城 Abandon the fort.
退向泸水关 Retreat to Lushui Pass.
节度使 Governor Gao!
皇帝依然避难在外 The Emperor has fled the capital?
是 Yes.
圣上在陕州 His Majesty is in Shanzhou.
吐蕃大军将长安团团围住 The Tubos have besieged Chang'an.
郭子仪 郭元帅 Marshal Guo Ziyi's army -
军在何处 where are they?
还在蓝田 Still in Lantian.
朝廷又杀了一批大臣重将 More ministers and generals have been executed.
圣上杀伐果断 His Majesty is resolute.
一继位就诛杀了 As soon as he took the throne
李辅国与元丞相 he executed Li Fuguo and Chancellor Yuan.
如今动荡之际 These are turbulent times.
朝廷的军书如雪片般传来 The court has sent a flurry of orders
都是催促中丞引军出关 urging Your Excellency to lead your army
西击吐蕃围魏救赵 to attack the Tubo troops in the west -
逼迫长安城外的吐蕃大军回师 forcing their main army to turn back
解长安之围 and lift the siege of Chang'an.
可我反而舍去了云山城 Instead, I abandoned Yunshan
退守泸水关 and retreated to Lushui Pass
虽然严武马上要来接任 General Yan Wu will soon take over
可是 But
毕竟中丞您还在 you, sir, are still in charge
这剑南西川节度使任上 of the Southwest Sichuan Command.
当然 Of course
朝廷责罚下来 when the court assigns blame
罪名在我 I'll be the guilty one.
带那名吐蕃俘虏来问话 Bring the Tubo prisoner for interrogation.
问你你就老实回答 You must answer truthfully.
报 Reporting!
票中丞 Governor -
营门外数十骑人马到来 dozens of cavalry are at the camp gates.
十万火急 It's extremely urgent.
自报为持节监军 Says he's an Imperial Envoy, Military Inspector.
监军 Military inspector?
持节 Imperial Envoy?!
你去营门 Go to the gates.
小心验明身份 Inspect their credentials.
仔细迎接 Receive them courteously.
是 Yes sir.
天意啊天意 It's Heaven's Will!
将这吐蕃人带走 Take the Tubo away.
先锁在帐边 Chain him up outside the tent.
是 Yes sir.
走 Get up! Move!
高中丞 Governor Gao!
快来人 Someone, help!
中丞 Governor!
程公公 Inspector Cheng.
不能远迎 For not riding out to greet you
失礼了 I apologise.
圣上遣我西来 The Emperor sent me west
问高中丞几句话 to ask you some questions, sir.
望高中丞有问必答 Please answer them all.
稍有隐瞒 If you cover up anything, sir
或有不明之处 or are less than clear
着我持节 I am authorized
立斩 to execute you
连坐三族 and punish your entire clan.
高适本要自裁以谢圣上 I was about to kill myself for failing the emperor.
公公但问 Ask, sir,
高适知无不答 and I'll say all I know.
李白 Li Bai.
李白 李太白 Li Bai. Li Taibai.
翰林待诏学士 Imperial Scholar.
号青莲居士 Calls himself Green Lotus Hermit.
李白 Li Bai.
公公不是为吐蕃军事而来 You're not here about the Tubos?
你如何认识李白的 How did you meet Li Bai?
从头说来 Start from the beginning.
他 He was...
他曾是我的好友 he was once my good friend.
我们以诗为交 We bonded over poetry.
我朝人人习诗 All people of the Tang write poetry -
上至圣上下至贩夫走卒 from His Majesty down to peddlars.
何奇之有 What's special about that?
千里黄云白日曛 Sunset's clouds color a twilit sky
北风吹雁雪纷纷 Geese ride the North Wind through falling snow.
莫愁前路无知己 Don't fear loneliness on the road ahead
天下谁人不识君 For who in this world doesn't know you?
我听过这首诗 I've heard that poem before.
这首诗是我三十岁那年 I wrote it when I was thirty.
为送行董大而写的 as a farewell to Dong Da.
那时我年轻无知 I was so young and ignorant!
就算是天下人人识君 Even if everyone knows you
其中又能有几个知己 how many count as true friends?
既然高中永与李自是知己 So if Li Bai was once your true friend,
那为何五年前 why, five years ago,
高中永要置季白于死地呢 did you seek to destroy him?
中丞 Governor!
我们年少相识 We met when we were young.
我二十岁那年 I was twenty.
洞庭湖畔 It was near Dongting Lake.
我们相识 We met
因为他要杀我 When he tried to kill me.
那是我第一次云游四方 I'd left home for the first time.
我出身海高氏 I'm from the Gao clan of Bohai.
行次三十五 The 35th boy in my generation.
人称高三十五 They called me "Gao Thirty-Five".
我的祖父于高宗朝时为安东都护 My grandfather served Emperor Gao zong as Northeast Commander.
屡破突厥 高句丽 He crushed the Turks and Goguryeo.
去世时配享乾陵 He was buried next to Emperor Gao zong's tomb
赠左武卫大将军 渤海郡王 and made Prince of Bohai.
我的父亲对我期望极高 My father had great expectations of me.
盼我有朝一日 He hoped that one day
像我祖父那样 I'd be like my grandfather -
直破漠北 封狼居胥 flying the banner beyond the Great Desert.
子日 Confucius said
学而时习之 "To practice what you learn -"
但读书识字 But learning to read
对我却是极困难的一件事 was really difficult for me.
我一读书 When I looked at a book
书上的文字就像水中蝌蚪一般 the characters swam on the page like tadpoles.
游来游去乱作一团 racing around, just a big mess.
为人谋而不忠乎 'Do your utmost to help others"
为人谋而不忠乎 'Do your utmost to help others?"
父亲 Father -
恕 恕罪 F-forgive me.
高家枪法有传人了 The Gao Spear has a worthy heir.
我父亲文武双全 My father was a warrior-scholar.
但真到他在广东韶郡去世 But when he died, in Shao, Guangdong,
也只是大唐一个边远小郡的长史 He was but a minor official of a minor county.
那年我十六岁母亲早已去世 I was sixteen. My mother had long passed away.
父亲不事经营两袖清风 Father managed his affairs poorly. We had nothing.
我扶灵从广东回到广陵 I took his ashes from Guangdong back to Guangling.
下葬之后家中已然四壁空空 I came home to an empty house.
天地间只剩我高适孤单单一个人 I was left all alone in the world.
三年守孝后 After three years of mourning
我决定离家去长安 I left home for the capital, Chang'an.
虽然读书不成但我还有武艺在身 didn't read well but I had martial skills.
那时正当我大唐开元盛世 It was Kai yuan, the Tang's Golden Age.
我要直趋长安 I would go straight to Chang'an,
即天子门 serve the Emperor,
成不世功业 make my name
复我高家的赫赫威名 and restore the glory of my family.
我不知道的是行路难呐 I didn't expect travel to be so hard.
从广陵出发西行 I rode west from Guangling.
不到一个月 After almost a month
眼看将到洞庭湖 I'd only reached Dongting Lake
我已经行囊见紧了 and my money was running out.
让开 Outta the way!
毛贼 Thief!
留下 Stop!
好个贼人身手不错 Damn thief. You're skilled.
骑在马上算什么好汉 But you're no hero up on that horse.
有本事下马 If you're a true fighter, dismount.
我们一决高下 We'll see who wins then!
阁下说谁是贼人 S-sir, who are you calling a thief?
偷我马匹行囊还不是贼 You steal my horse and bags and you're no thief?
你这贼好身手 You're good at this, thief.
居然能挡我李白一剑 To block my sword isn't easy.
这么好的身手为何做贼 But with such skill, why thieve?
适才有两匹马从我身边冲过 J-just now two horses galloped past.
上有行囊 They had saddlebags.
似是贼人 I think they were your thieves.
你不是贼 If you're not a thief
为何戴同样的斗笠 why do you wear the same hat?
巧了 Oh! A c-coincidence.
好我信你 Okay, I believe you!
借你马一用 Lend me your horse!
我的马 My horse!
好一位侠客 You're quite the warrior.
多谢相救 Thank you for saving me.
方才错怪你了 Earlier, I falsely accused you.
我向你谢罪 I beg your pardon.
谢罪倒也不必 No n-need to apologise.
大唐律令 The law of the Tang
平民遇盗贼 says if a civilian meets a thief
杀之无罪 killing him isn't a crime.
否则我也不能帮你 Otherwise, I couldn't have helped you.
律令什么的你背得还挺熟啊 Y-you know a lot about the law!
这位兄台休要取笑 B-brother, don't mock me.
你年纪轻轻的规矩还不少 So young, and yet so formal.
多谢了 Thank you.
在下李白 Li Bai, at your service.
在下高适 Gao Shi, at yours.
高适多亏了你借我马匹 Gao Shi, lucky you lent me your horse.
否则我追不上他们我万死难辞其咎 If I didn't catch them, I'd never forgive myself.
这马上有贵重之物 What you're carrying - it's valuable?
行囊金银丢了倒是无碍 I wouldn't care if it was gold or silver.
但是这个 But this -
这是我的好友吴指南 This is my dear friend Wu Zhinan.
吴兄快快见过高兄 Brother Wu-meet Brother Gao.
这是 This is...?
我与吴兄少年同学 We studied together in our youth.
出川之后无意之间在庐山相遇 After I left Sichuan I ran into him at Mt Lu.
原本我们准备一起寻师学道的 We looked for a Taoist master together.
不想天道无情 But fate was cruel.
三年之前他在途中突然一病不起 Three years ago, he took ill and died.
我许了个愿 I made a pledge
要将他的遗骨移去一处天地灵秀之所在 to take his remains somewhere beautiful
好好安葬 and bury him there.
这是遗骨 These are his remains?
正是 That's right!
我要将吴兄葬在黄鹤楼侧 I'll bury him by Yellow Crane Tower.
让这天下名楼陪伴他 Let that famous tower be his companion.
绝妙吧 A marvelous idea, right?
来高兄 Come, Brother Gao -
同去同去走啊 Come with me. Let's go!
我从来没有遇见过这样的人物 I'd never met anyone like him.
也自称是陇西人氏 He said his family was from Longxi.
李广的十九代后人 A 19th generation descendent of Li Guang -
与我朝皇家是同宗 related to the imperial clan.
他原居四川 He used to live in Sichuan
当时正云游天下干渴诸侯 but was wandering the land, courting officials
希望能遇见一位伯乐 in the hope one would recognise his talent
将他举荐朝廷 and commend him to the court
为国效力 so he could serve the country.
来来来来 Here you go!
请 Enjoy!
高兄 Brother Gao -
闲着也是闲着 we've got time.
高兄刚刚杀贼的那一下枪法 How you killed that thief with your spear -
真如龙跃在天啊 it was like a flying dragon.
高兄可愿教我枪法 If you'll teach me spear fighting
你若愿意 I'd be happy
我教高兄 to teach you
相扑之术如何 the art of wrestling. Say yes?
来吧 Let's do it.
相扑之道 The Way of wrestling
以虚御实 is to answer force with feints
声东击西 distract to attack
全看变幻 and rely on variation.
最重要的 The key
就是骗过对手 is to trick your opponent.
你这也太容易被人一眼识破了 It's too easy to see through you.
高适 Gao Shi -
你知道怎样才能骗过对手吗 know how to trick an opponent?
我十八岁那年 When I was eighteen
在长平山 I went to Mt. Changping
随一位赵先生学纵横术 to study strategy with a Master Zhao.
不想纵横术不曾有大成 I never mastered strategy
到学会了赵先生的 but I did learn Master Zhao's
召唤群鸟之术 art of beckoning the birds.
北冥有鱼 There's a North Sea fish
其名为鲲 That's called the Kun.
化而为鸟 It transforms into a bird
其名为鹏 that's called the Eagle.
李白 Li Bai.
我从来没有见过这么一个 I'd never met anyone like him.
潇洒不羁的人 So free in spirit.
他身在这世间 He lived in this world
却又仿佛在这世间之外 but seemed apart from it as well.
成了 Got it!
高兄 Brother Gao -
你我身当如此盛世 living in such a golden age as this
当为大鹏 we shall be Great Eagles!
交交黄鸟 The yellow birds flit
止于棘 and perch upon the jujube tree.
彼苍者天 Whilst cruel fate
歼我良人 steals the life of a good man.
大鹏不曾展翅 The Great Eagle never spread its wings -
就夭折异乡 dying young and far from home.
鸣呼哀哉 O grief! O sorrow!
吴兄 Brother Wu -
鸣呼 O grief!
哀哉 O sorrow!
高兄 Brother Gao -
人生譬如朝露 life is like the morning dew.
转瞬即逝 Blink and it's gone.
悲哉 So tragic.
总有一日我要投身道法 One day I'll devote myself to the Tao.
寻修仙之道 I'll discover the path
长生之法 to immortality.
李兄 Brother Li -
子不语怪力乱神 "Confucius never speaks of the occult."
修仙之道 The Tao of Immortality
太过虚幻 is too... too illusory.
高兄 Brother Gao -
天下事无所不难 nothing in life is easy.
我李白到这世间走一回 In my time in this world
要做就要做最难的事 I want to do the hardest things.
终有一日 One day
功成 I'll prove myself.
名遂 Make a name.
身退得道 Become a hermit, find the Tao.
不过得道之前 But before I can do that
我要先去取功名 I must achieve official rank.
我久已听闻此地的郡 I've heard that the governor here
有伯乐之才 has a great eye for talent.
高兄 Brother Gao -
你可知晓行卷 一事 you've heard of "Passing the Scroll"?
当然知晓 Of course.
这位郡守擅长文章 This governor loves essays.
我专门写了一篇大鹏赋 I wrote "Ode to the Great Eagle" for him.
定会一举而中 He'll promote me for sure.
我朝素有举荐的制度 The dynasty has a system for promoting talent.
五品以上官员 Officials of high rank
有举荐贤才之责 were responsible for recommending talent.
所以文士将平常精彩之作 So literati presented their best work
献给有名望的官员 to prominent officials
以得赏识 to get recognition.
这是取功名的一条捷径 It was a shortcut to official rank.
称为行卷 It was called "Passing the Scroll".
可是 But..
天下间的捷径 How can such shortcuts
是为寒门所开 be open to those of humble birth?
唐军已经吓破了胆 The Tang soldiers are terrified.
你看到了 You've seen that.
高适已经被解职 Gao Shi has been relieved of his command.
吐蕃大军一来 Once the Tubo army arrives
泸水关一击即下 they'll take Lushui Pass, easy.
我们也是胡人 We're also northern tribesmen.
不给他们卖命 We won't die for them.
大军行动要快 Your army must act fast.
后日严武就要回来接任了 Yan Wu takes command in two days.
严武 Yan Wu?
严武要回来 Yan Wu is coming back?
对你知道他有多厉害 Yes! You know how strong he is.
趁他回来之前要快 We have to do this before that!
大军一到 When the army arrives
我们就开城门 we'll open the gates.
胡人全部都准备好了 The tribesman are all prepared.
明白 Understood!
但李白啊 But Li Bai
他自然不信天下间有什么门 naturally didn't think that doors
会不为他所开 wouldn't open for him.
李兄 Brother Li -
我在门外相候 I'll wait here for you.
高兄同去啊 Brother Gao, come with me!
何必在外面等着 No need to wait outside.
这位府君 This governor -
我不认识 I've never been introduced.
祖上也不曾有什么情谊 Our families have no ties either.
高兄 Brother Gao
我李白的才华 my talent
抵得上一万个相识 is superior to a thousand introductions
一亿年的情谊 and a million years of ties.
我去了 I'm going.
请回吧请回吧 Please go away.
府君今日政务困乏 The governor is tied up with official business.
无法亲会 He can't see you.
府君读我文章了吗 Has he read my essay?
令尊是一位商人 Your father was a merchant?
是 Yes.
家父从事贸易 He was a trader
产业上及金陵扬州 with businesses in Jinling and Yangzhou.
贩夫走卒这样的贱类下民 The descendant of a pedlar
也敢来行卷 and you dare to "Pass the Scroll"?
有眼无珠有眼无珠 He has eyes but can not see!
有眼无珠 Blind!
高兄走 Brother Gao! Let's go.
不与这有眼无珠的唐人 To argue with such an ignoramus
一般见识 is below us.
我们去黄鹤楼喝一杯 Let's go to Yellow Crane Tower for a drink.
怎么样 What do you say?
走高兄 Let's go, Brother Gao!
我这才知道 That's how I learned
李白原来是商人之子 Li Bai was the son of a merchant.
我朝法度 By the laws of our dynasty
商人再富有也是下民 even a wealthy merchant belongs to the lower class.
商人之子 The son of a merchant
连科举考试都不得参加 can't even take the civil service exam.
快啊高兄 C'mon, Brother Gao!
也想取功名 To get an official position
只能走行卷以求荐举这条路 he had to "Pass the Scroll" and find a patron.
可这条路 But wasn't this
岂不是更难 even a harder road?
他的才华如暗室明珠 His genius could light the dark.
璀璨可见 His brilliance was obvious.
可他也是我见过的 But I'd never met anyone
最天真幼稚的一个人 so childishly innocent as well.
小二小二来来来 Waiter! Come!
来了 Coming!
有好酒尽管上 Bring us your best wine.
来啊高兄快干了 Brother Gao - bottoms up!
高兄快来 Brother Gao, come, quick.
你看这长江 See the Yangtze?
它从我的故乡流过 It flows from my hometown.
万水千山 Endless waters, countless peaks -
这条江水一路送我而来 this river brought me here.
高克你的故乡有关江大河吗 Brother Gao, does your home have great rivers too?
渤海郡有黄河 Bohai has the Yellow River.
我还未到过黄河 I've yet to see the Yellow River.
倒是读过那首登鹤雀楼 But I know the poem "Upon Stork Tower"
白日依山尽 The sun rests on the peak before it fades
黄河入海流 The Yellow River flows towards the sea
王之涣果然好诗 Wang Zhi huan's wonderful poem.
小二小二 Waiter! Waiter!
来喽 Coming!
客官何事 What can I do for you, sir?
我诗兴大发 I'm overcome with inspiration.
要在你们这黄鹤楼上题诗一首 I want to dedicate a poem to Yellow Crane Tower.
你家的诗板何在 Where are your poetry boards?
客官您也会写诗 Ah, sir, you write poetry?
当然 Of course.
客官 Sir,
可有功名在身 do you have official rank, then?
指日可得唾手可得 I'll have one soon, it's in reach!
客官要不我再给您下几道好菜 Sir, why don't I bring you more dishes?
这题诗多费神 Writing poetry is so demanding.
不要啰嗦快带我去诗板 Stop stalling. Take me to the poetry boards.
行行行 Alright.
走 C'mon.
敝楼历史由来已久 Our tower has a long history.
数百年来无数客人在敝楼题过诗 For centuries, guests have left poems here.
看这四面的诗板便知 Just look around, sir.
好地方好地方 A fine place.
小二你们黄鹤楼至今而来 Waiter, of all the poems here
最好的诗题在哪块诗板上 which is the best one?
我就要题诗在旁 I will write one next to it.
那是何人 至今最好的一首诗 Who's this person? To date the best one..
看这一身白衣应该只是一介平民 至今最好的一首诗 Judging from his clothes, a commoner. To date the best one...
小的不懂啊 I'm not so learned
但四方来往的客人们公认 but visitors all agree
是前年刚刚题上的 it's one written just two years ago.
哦 只是前年 Just two years ago?
那是崔颢崔公子题的 It's by Master Cui Hao.
崔公子出身博陵崔氏 He's from the Cui clan of Boling.
崔家您知道六大世家之首 The Cuis is are first among the Six Great Clans.
这位崔公子 Young Master Cui
二十不到已经高中进士 passed the civil service exams at nineteen.
少废话拿笔来 Enough. Give me a brush.
您的笔 Your brush.
就是这首 This one, right?
是崔公子酒后兴起随手一题 He was inspired after drinking.
崔公子这书法也好 His calligraphy is marvelous too -
真是无所不好 it's all marvelous!
昔人已乘黄鹤去 The Ancient rode off on the Yellow Crane
此地空余黄鹤楼 Leaving but an empty Yellow Crane Tower here
黄鹤一去不复返 The Yellow Crane, gone, never to reappear
白云千载空悠悠 White clouds drift past, year after year
晴川历历汉阳树 The trees of Hanyang, the sparkling stream
芳草萋萋鹦鹉洲 On Parrot Isle, grasses lush arid green
日暮乡关何处是 Dusk sets in, where is my home?
烟波江上使人愁 Mist and waves, a melancholy scene.
妙啊真妙啊 Wonderful, really wonderful.
真是大才 Such great talent!
崔公子又年轻又俊秀出身又好 Master Cui is young, elegant, high-born -
又那么有才华 and so talented too.
哪里来的两个蠢材 Where did those two dolts come from?
年幼无知也能理解 Youthful ignorance, that's all.
就是两个蠢材 They're still a pair of dolts.
高兄 Brother Gao -
你要西去长安我要东向扬州 You go west to Chang'an, I go east to Yangzhou.
今日别过 Today we part ways.
总有一日 One day
我要写出一篇压倒黄鹤楼古今诗人的诗来 I'll write Yellow Crane Tower's best-ever poem.
高兄一年之约 Brother Gao, let's make a date.
一年之后无论你在长安能否取得功名 In a year, whether you succeed in Chang'an or not
定要来扬州找我 you must visit me in Yangzhou!
我带你领略扬州二十四桥的歌舞楼台 I'll show you the wonders by its famous bridges
还有美景玉人 and its beauties too.
一年后定然登门 Next year, I'll visit for sure.
抚长剑 I touch my sword.
扬眉 I raise my eyes.
清水白石何离离 Like stones in clear water, I shall be seen.
高三十五 Gao Thirty-five -
你心中的一团锦绣 That splendid talent of yours
终有脱口而出的一日 will one day burst forth from your heart.
脱吾帽 I take off my cap
向君笑 We share a smile
饮君酒 We drink wine
为君吟 And I sing for you.
长安 Chang'an...
那是我第一次到长安 It was my first time there.
长安 Chang'an...
这位兄台抱歉抱歉 Oh, I do beg your pardon!
其家不可教而能教人者 无之 "To govern, first put your own house in order."
老场点名 Roll call.
王昌龄王昌龄没到吗 Wang Changling?
常建 Chang Jian!
常建到了吗 Here, here! Chang Jian?
举手 Raise your hands.
转身 行 Turn around. Okay.
叫你转个身都不利索 I said turn, how hard is that?
能听懂人话嗎 Is it so hard to understand?
滚那边排队去 Now get your butt back into line.
我读书笨拙科举不成 I was a poor student, I'd never pass.
到也免了这一番羞辱 At least I avoided this humiliation.
不去应试 Aside from the exams
还有制举一途 there was another path.
天子直接殿试一样可以中第 The emperor could test and appoint you himself.
圣上不拘一格广搜天下人才 He's discerning and looks out for great talent.
制举 更需要有大贵人举荐 But a High Noble has to recommend you first.
逃了 Escaped?
由他去吧 不用追 Let him go. No need to chase him.
程公公年少得志 You're young and accomplished.
是哪位公公的门下 Who was your mentor at court?
我乃高公公门下 His Excellency, Inspector Eunuch Gao.
高公公赤胆忠心 He was devoted to the court.
却被张皇后李辅国谗言中伤 But Empress Zhang and Li Fuguo smeared his name
流放而死 and he died in exile.
这回皇帝铲除张皇后一党 His Majesty has since eliminated that cabal.
李辅国是我手刃的 I killed Li Fuguo myself.
公公不忘师门 You're loyal to your mentor.
难得啊 That's rare.
可惜当年海高家门下 It's a pity that back then my family
没有公公这样的人物 had no one such as yourself.
到了长安我才知道 Only when I got to Chang'an did I know
长安人的心中 people there saw the Gaos
高家早已败落了 as a clan past its prime.
小心着点 Watch it.
李先生抱抱歉 S-so sorry, Mr Li.
岐王说你枪舞绝妙得很 Prince Qi thinks your spear dance marvellous
非要让我把你的节目加在 and insisted I include it
今晚玉真公主驾前的单子上 in tonight's program for Princess Yuzhen.
我李龟年怎么看也没看出 Personally, I don't see
你的枪舞妙在何处 what's so marvellous.
你这架势 The way you wield it
不像舞倒像是要上阵杀敌 is less dancer than warrior.
李先生多担待 Mr Li, please, please forgive me.
我一定尽力 I will do my best
来个满堂彩 to earn their applause.
玉真公主什么没见过 Princess Yuzhen is very cultured.
你就自求多福吧 Good luck.
行了 So be it.
岐王的面子我总得给 I respect Prince Qi's wishes.
还有那个弹琴的 Also, that zither player.
我也得去看一眼 I have to check that out, too.
岐王今晚一下子给我塞了两个新人 Prince Qi pushed two new acts on me tonight.
日照新妆水底明 Sparkling bright as the stream
风飘香袂空中举 Their scents and flowers' aroma blend
岸上谁家游冶郎 Whose boys are those loafing on the banks?
岐王 Prince Qi.
只有岐王 Only Prince Qi
岐王爱才 truly loved talent.
他说 He said
圣上如今最宠爱妹妹玉真公主 His Majesty adored his sister Yuzhen -
只要是她举荐的人 If she recommended someone
圣上都青眼有加 he'd appoint them.
那晚岐王请客 That night, Prince Qi held a party
让我借机在玉真公主前一展才能 so I could show her my skills.
有些吓人 It's a bit scary.
这是上阵杀敌的了不起枪法 As a battle technique it's superb.
枪啊枪 Spear, spear.
高家枪法只知道让你杀敌 The Gao Spear can kill enemies
不知道如何让你去讨妇人欢喜 but it can't impress a woman.
背后诋毁公主 Defaming the princess behind her back.
谁 Who...
好你个高适 How dare you, Gao Shi.
我逗你的!你给吓得 I'm teasing. Looks like I scared you.
好你个顽皮儿童 You... you naughty kid.
岐王早就把他今晚的安排告诉我了 Prince Qi told me about tonight's program.
枪法真好 Your spear skills are impressive.
可惜了 Such a shame
战场上冲锋陷阵的高家无敌枪法 you lack a battlefield to use them on.
今日却无奈 Today you must settle
要去博一个小小宴会的掌声 for courting applause at a little party.
这位公子是岐王府上何人 Little Master, how are you related to Prince Qi?
我不是岐王府的 I'm not related.
郡姓杜单名一个甫 My humble surname is Du, my name is Fu.
杜甫京兆人氏 Du Fu, from Jingzhao
原来是京兆杜家 Ah, the Du family of Jingzhao.
久仰 It's an honor.
快来听听 Come, listen.
除了你这是今晚岐王的另一个安排 This is Prince Qi's other program for tonight.
此人是谁 Who's this?
你一定听说过他的大名 You've surely heard of him.
他出身河东王氏 He's from the Wang clan of Hedong.
王维 王摩诘 Wang Wei.
红豆生南国 春来发几枝 Red beans in the south flourish in the spring.
我听说他诗画俱妙 I knew his poetry and painting were sublime.
没想到琴技也这么高超 but not that he also played so beautifully.
就是他这个人 The thing about him
性子太清冷 is that he's a bit cold.
我逗他说话 I try to talk to him
他从来都不怎么理踩我 but he always ignores me.
也这性子 行卷是肯定行不通了 Such a personality isn't good at "Passing the Scroll".
听以岐王特地安排了今晚 So Prince Qi invited him tonight too.
你这人我喜欢 I do like you though.
高适你还有什么别的才艺吗 Gao Shi, what are your other talents?
玉真公主喜欢音乐舞蹈 Princess Yuzhen likes music and dance.
还有画 And painting too.
琴棋书画我都不会 I'm no good at any of that.
若是诗的话 But as for poetry...
这边 This way.
公子真是一表人才 So striking and so talented!
这是何意 What's going on?
这件衣裳才配您 This robe suits you better.
玉真公主到 Princess Yuzhen is here.
拜见公主 Your Highness.
王爷 M'Lord.
方才不知那一袭白衣的琴手是摩诘先生 I didn't realise you were the famous Wang Wei.
先生大名仰慕已久 I've wanted to meet you for a long time.
请先生一同上座吧 Please, sit with me.
不敢不敢 I wouldn't presume.
你要推荐摩诘先生真说便是 If you'd like a referral, just say the word.
公主慧眼自然识得英雄 You have a gift for recognizing greatness.
请 This way.
其实琴棋书画我也不太行 Actually, I'm so-so at those arts as well.
尤其是我的字真难看 Especially my calligraphy - hideous.
怎么练也练不好 Practice doesn't improve it.
写诗我喜欢 I love writing poetry.
可是写诗 But poetry -
人人都会啊 anyone can do that.
新科进士来探花了 The successful candidates are "picking flowers".
快看 Look!
什么是探花啊 "Picking flowers"?
约定俗成 It's a custom.
新科进士这一日 Pass the exams
可以进长安城内任何一座花园 and you may enter any Chang'an garden
采摘花朵 to pick flowers
用来装点今夜庆贺新 for tonight's celebrations in Qujiang.
姑娘没伤着吧 Are you okay?
失礼失礼 Pardon me!
是你昨夜舞枪的 That was you with the spear last night.
是你 And it's you!
多谢公子 Thank you, sir.
抱歉姑娘无妨吧 I'm so sorry. Are you alright?
无妨无妨公子放心 No problem. Please don't worry.
那就好 I'm glad. CHANG JIAN
恐逢故里莺花笑 Return home a failure, birds and flowers jeer.
且向长安度一春 Better to remain in Chang'an one more year.
多巧啊姑娘 Such a coincidence, dear.
我们正要赶去曲江宴献唱一首 We're off to sing at the Qujiang parties
没想到这里就遇到了 We didn't expect to meet you here.
探花郎君将一朵花给了姑娘 The scholar gave the lady a flower.
今年运道一定大好 She'll have a lucky year.
姑娘 M-miss!
昨夜在岐王府 Last night at Prince Qi's residence
姑娘唱的是什么曲子 what song were you singing?
那词真好啊 The lyrics were beautiful.
我前几日刚刚习得 I learned it a few days ago.
采莲曲 "Gathering Lotuses"
作词的是一位才华高绝的年轻郎君 The lyrics are by a brilliant young man.
李白 Li Bai.
姑娘咱们赶紧去吧 Miss, we need to hurry -
这一年一度的曲江宴可不能迟到 we can't be late for the celebrations.
李白 Li Bai.
他的声名已经远扬到了长安 His fame had already reached Chang'an.
一位歌女都知道他的名字 Even a singsong girl knew his name.
王维李百他们是对的 Wang Wei, Li Bai, they were right.
无名之辈不该来长安 Unknowns had no business in Chang'an.
我应该先去外郡 I needed to go elsewhere,
成名之后再来长安发扬光大 make a name, then come to Chang'an.
所以你回乡了 So you went home?
对 但回乡之前 Yes, but before I did,
我决定先去赴那一年之约 I had an appointment to keep.
你去了扬州 You went to Yangzhou?
我去了扬州 I went to Yangzhou.
快回去禀报 Let's go report this!
好不容易大明寺采来的你赔我花 They were from Daming Temple. You owe me!
扬州 Yangzhou
真是个销金的温柔乡 was full of temptation and sweetness.
到了扬州客栈里一问李白 At the inn there, I asked about Li Bai.
人人都知道他 Everyone knew him.
他在何处 Where is he?
高兄高兄 Brother Gao!
真没有想到你今夜突然来到 This is so unexpected!
太好了我太想你了 And so great. I've really missed you!
李兄 Brother Li -
年之约决不食言 we agreed to meet in a year. I kept my word.
什么一年之约 We agreed to what?
这位就是我告诉你们的 This fellow, I've told you about him -
在洞庭湖畔力如万钧 Dongting Lake, strong as an ox,
一步杀一贼 felling thieves with one blow.
渤海高家高适高三十五 A Bohai Gao, Gao Shi, Gao Thirty-Five!
你来的太巧了 You're just in time.
我们正要去办一件大事 We're about to do something big.
何事 What's that?
去救一个人 We're going to save someone.
来来来 Come, come!
要从一处龙潭虎穴 From the dragon's pool and tiger's lair
解救一位国色天香 we'll rescue a divine beauty!
龙潭虎穴 Dragon's pool, tiger's lair?
站住 Stop there!
高兄 Brother Gao -
你不看看你救了个什么人吗 don't you want to see who you saved?
李公子 Master Li -
我在苏公子的宴席上 I was at Master Su's banquet.
把舞正跳到一半 I was only halfway into my dance
你忽然冲进来抢走了我 when you barged in and stole me away.
要把我绑去何处呢 Where are you taking me?
宴席 Banquet?
苏十六无趣之人 Su Sixteen. Such a bore.
为无趣之人跳舞无趣至极 Dancing for such bores is so dull.
我把你从无趣至极中解救出来 I rescued you from all that tedium.
你该如何谢我 Shouldn't you thank me?
我谢你 I thank you.
可是我娘可饶不了你 But my mother won't forgive you.
那不管我们现在一起去装公子府上 Whatever. We're off to Master Pei's house.
裴公子也来了 Master Pei is with you?
裴十二的父亲 Pei Twelve's father -
裴将军今晚有一个宴席 General Pei - is hosting a banquet tonight.
请了吴道子来作画 Wu Daozi is coming to paint.
裴将军要亲自下场舞剑为他助兴 The General will do a sword dance to inspire him.
吴道子的画装将军的剑 Wu Daozi's painting, General Pei's sword -
大唐双绝一夜可见 two treasures of the Tang in one night!
那才是一场真正的盛宴 That's what I call a great banquet.
停船 Stop that boat!
姑娘就在那船上 快划 She's on that boat! Chase it!
快快快快划快划 Row faster, faster!
李公子别生气 Master Li, don't be angry.
去不了裴将军的宴席 I can't make General Pei's banquet.
是我没福气 That's my bad luck.
不如我就在这条船上 What if instead, here on this boat
给你跳支我新学的柘枝舞吧 I show you my new Zhezhi Dance?
也好 Why not.
好 Great!
你跳我给你击鼓 Dance! I'll play the drum for you.
多谢季公子 Thank you, Master Li.
好一个柘枝舞 A beautiful Zhezhi Dance.
美人一笑千黄金 A beauty's smile as precious as gold
垂罗舞纱扬胡音 Rippling her sleeves, she sings an exotic tune.
李公子今夜这舞好么 Master Li, did you like tonight's dance?
可与这江上明月争辉 It outshone the moon on the river!
来我身上所有的金银 Here, this is all the money I have on me.
都赏予你 It's your reward.
谢谢公子 Thank you, kind sir.
可是 But
今晚你闹出这么大的动静 you caused big trouble tonight.
我娘你也总得抚慰抚慰吧 My mother needs comforting too.
说得对说得对 Of course, yes!
这是天山白玉的戒指 This ring is white jade from Mt Tian.
拿去 Take it!
多谢公子 Thank you so much.
如此妙舞如此良夜 Marvelous dancing, a beautiful night!
青春已复过 百日忽相催 Youth is fleeting, age is upon me
但恐荷花晚 令人意已摧 Flowers fade; my heart is heavy
相思不惜梦 日夜向阳台 I long in dreams; reach for that sun-filled place.
来来来 Come!
厉害啊 Incredible!
看不清啊 I can't see.
来晚了来晚了河上盘桓太久 We're late, we were delayed on the river.
去花窗 Let's go to the window.
我得了 I've got it!
我得书法之道了 The Way of calligraphy!
我得了 I've got it!
我得书法之道了 张旭看了吴道子的画就悟到了书法之道 Yes, while watching Wu Daozi paint.
张旭得道了 Zhang Xu found the Way?
好 Bravo!
今生何幸 What luck!
妙哉 Wonderful!
只有在天下繁华之地的扬州 Only in magnificent Yangzhou
才有这样的盛会 do you find such fabulous parties.
夜色尚早 The night is young.
我们该当去哪一家歌坊 In which songhouse
再续今夜之欢呢 should we continue the fun?
今夜必须尽欢直到东方既白 We'll party til the sun lights the east.
好好好好高兄走啊 Brother Gao, aren't you coming?
李兄怨我直言 Brother Li, forgive my directness.
你这样挥金如土千金买笑 But spending money like water -
如何能够长久 how long can you go on like this?
以兄这等才华 Won't your incredible talent
要消耗在这夜夜笙歌之中吗 dissipate amongst such nightly revels?
这这 Gee, uh..
不消耗在扬州夜色与美酒美人之中 If not amidst Yangzhou's wine and beauties -
却消耗在何处啊 where should it dissipate?
大丈夫当报效国家建功立业 A great man aims to serve his country.
报效国家 Serve the country?
有才就能报效国家了 Talent alone means you can serve?
久闻高枪法的大名 Your family's spear is famous.
高公子自负大才 Would the talented Master Gao
可愿意和我这无才无德消耗光阴的唐人 allow a talentless, common wastrel like me
比试比试 to challenge him to a contest?
请 My pleasure.
好好好 Great!
裴家剑 高家枪 The Pei Sword and the Gao Spear -
都是沙场淬炼出来的真武艺 both arts perfected on the battlefield.
好一个比试 What a good contest.
是我们高家枪 Yes, but the Gao Spear
不为舞蹈 wasn't designed for performance
为的是杀敌 but for killing enemies.
好好好 Bravo!
原来无论是剑舞还是破敌 Dancing or fighting with the sword -
剑法都是相通的我也懂了 it's all related. I understand now!
我父亲剑法高明 My father's swordsmanship is stellar
军功卓著 and he's a great military man.
可是 But But
当下是季林重为相 Imperial Chancellor Li Linfu
他只想提拔蕃将 only promotes non-Han generals
牵制汉家世族 while restraining the great Han families.
我父亲 My father
他就算有再高的剑法才华 might be the best swordsman ever
也只能在扬州家中 but at home in Yangzhou
舞剑为人一乐 he can only use his sword to entertain.
高兄 Brother Gao -
你知道吗 Did you know
裴家所有子侄 that though my family has boys
只有我 only I
尽得了裴家的剑法真传 am the true inheritor of his art?
可是 And yet
我是一个女子 I'm a woman.
才华报国无门 No door to serving my country is open to me.
一个女子的才华呢 A woman's talent!
才华才华 Talent! Talent!
梨花醉春色 Pear blossoms drunk on spring's blush
碧溪弹夜弦 The verdant stream plucks night's strings
佳期不可再 Golden times are fleeting
风雨香如年 Storms make gloomy the years.
扬州城里人人都知道她 In Yangzhou, everyone knows her.
一个奇女子 An exceptional woman
诗剑双绝 as fine a poet as a swordswoman.
她女扮男装裴将军也纵容她 She dresses like a man. Her father indulges her.
没事没事没事你输给裴十二 Don't fret - losing to Pei Twelve
分一毫都不会不光彩 is nothing to be ashamed of.
走 喝酒去 走啊 Let's go, let's get a drink.
喝酒去 Time for a drink.
李兄是我输了 Brother Li, it's me who lost.
我也明白了 I'm also aware
是我年少轻狂自以为是 of my youthful arrogance and over-confidence.
高适才学不够武艺不精 I'm neither learned, nor a great martial artist.
我要回乡去勤读苦练 I'll go home, study and practice hard
直到有一天我准备好了 until the day comes that I'm ready
终有我大展身手的一日 and on that day I will finally shine!
李兄别过 Brother Li, I take my leave.
你你刚到扬州啊 But you just got to Yangzhou!
大鹏终有直击云天的一日 The Great Eagle will soar one day.
高三十五 Gao Thirty-Five -
你方才突然不口吃了 you just stopped stuttering!
是啊是啊 It's true.
从那一日起我不口吃了 I never stuttered again after that.
报中丞 Reporting!
公公军情急报 Sir, it's urgent military news.
吐蕃大军全军已出云山城 The whole Tubo army has left Yunshan.
向泸水关而来 and is headed towards Lushui Pass.
全军 The whole army?
我们亲眼目睹 确定无疑 We saw it ourselves, it's true.
马步兵都有 There's cavalry and infantry
加起来有七八万之众 Altogether 70 or 80 thousand.
离泸水关还有多远 How far are they from Lushui Pass?
二十里三个时辰 Twenty li, about six hours.
三个时辰 Six hours.
程公公请坐我们还有时间 Please, sit. We still have time.
我回了商丘梁园 I returned to Liang Gardens in Shangqiu.
我们高家的故地还有几亩薄田 Our family estate still had some fields
几间老屋 and several old houses.
转眼三年过去 Three years soon passed.
又是一个春天 It was spring again.
绿树村边合青山郭外斜 Green woods fringe the village, verdant mountains surround it.
我说高大哥 Brother Gao -
为什么大家读书都是自己读 why can other people study alone
你就非得我读一遍给你听 but I have to read something first
才能记下来啊 for you to remember it?
高适 Gao Shi -
我们在村边庙里捉了个贼 we caught a thief by the village temple.
他说是你的朋友 He says he's your friend!
高兄好久不见 Brother Gao, long time no see.
李白 Li Bai!
是是是是我的一位老朋友 It's true, he's an old friend.
麻烦给放了 Please, let him go.
这人大白天赤条条地睡在庙里 He was napping naked in the temple!
看就不像什么正经 He doesn't look respectable.
抱歉抱歉 I apologise.
我这个远道来的朋 This friend from afar
平常比较随性 is rather casual by nature.
高公子说是朋友了 Mr Gao says he's a friend.
李兄啊你怎么来了 Brother Li, how'd you get here?
高适 Gao Shi.
还记得我教你的相扑之术吗 remember I taught you the art of wrestling?
以虚御实 To answer force with feints?
来来来来一局 Come, let's have a match.
高适进步不小啊 Gao Shi, you've improved a lot.
你胜了你胜了高适 You win, Brother Gao.
气色不错啊 You look well.
李兄别来无恶 Brother Li, have you been well?
别来有恶得很 No, I've been wretched.
前几个月我大病了一场 A few months ago I got very sick
差点病死在扬州 and almost died in Yangzhou.
不说了 Forget it!
来喝酒去走 Come, let's drink. C'mon.
好好 Sure.
正巧我刚刚钓了几条小鱼 Happily, I just caught some fish.
正好下酒 They'll go well with wine.
高兄学姜太公钓鱼啊 Fishing with straight hooks like Duke Jiang?
太公从来没有钓上鱼 He never caught any fish.
我可是钓上来了 But I have.
来 * Cheers.
这几年我苦练武艺 I'm working hard on my martial skills.
对了我也开始学着写诗 Oh, I'm learning to write poetry too.
这我知道 I know.
寂寞向秋草 Lonely view of autumn grasses
悲风千里来 Bitter winds blow for thousands of miles
李兄读过我的诗 You've read my poetry?
江湖间已有流传 People are reading it everywhere.
高克你心中的锦绣 Brother Gao, your splendid talent
终于开口了 has finally burst forth!
说话无碍了 I speak easily now
只是读书还是艰难 But studying is still hard for me.
总得请村里的学童先读一遍给我听 A village student has to read to me
才读的进去 before I can absorb anything.
无妨无妨这有何妨 That's fine. Who cares?
我少年时在象耳山读书 As a boy studying at Elephant Ear Mountain
怎么都没有长进 I never seemed to improve.
有一天我逃学在外 One day I skipped class.
你知道我在小溪边见看什么了吗 Know what I saw by the stream?
一位老太太在磨一根 An old woman, polishing a rod
这么粗的铁杵 of metal this thick.
我就问她 你磨这个干嘛 I asked, what are you doing?
老太太说 The old woman said
只要功夫深铁杆磨成针 'Effort plus time turns a rod into a needle fine."
然后我就回去读书了 So I went back and studied.
读书本来就艰难 Studying is always hard.
你看我都得用功刻苦 You see, I had to work hard too.
李兄真有其事吗 Brother Li, is that a true story?
我说的当然是真的了 If I tell it of course it's true.
高克还是单身一人吗 Brother Gao, are you still single?
家贫如此 Poor as I am
功名又渺渺无望 and with no hope of an official position,
哪家的女子会看得上我高适 what family would give me their daughter's hand?
我要娶妻了 I'm getting married.
恭喜恭喜是谁家的小姐 Congratulations! What family is she from?
安陆许家 The Xus of Anlu.
是曾经拜相的许家 Retired Chancellor Xu?
正是 That's right.
这真是要恭喜啊李兄 I really must congratulate you!
这就是名动天下的三百里梁园 These are the celebrated Liang Gardens?
千年过去 A thousand years have passed.
梁园只剩了这一道残墙 Now all that's left is this collapsed wall
几处废台 and a few ruined pavilions.
世间的繁华如梦 Worldly prosperity is an illusion.
恰似昙花一现 Ephemeral as a flower's bloom.
扬州数年 All those years in Yangzhou
不过大梦一场 passed as though in a dream.
那日你和我分别之后 That day when we said goodbye
剑南家中便传来了噩耗 I received terrible news from home.
我父亲忽然一病不起 My father suffered a sudden illness
壮年而逝 and passed away in his prime.
我父亲是天地之间 Of all the people in the world
第一爱我之人 he loved me best.
我回家之后我的两位哥哥已经分好了家 Before I got home, my brothers split the estate.
说我这些年早已耗尽了我的那一份家产 They said I'd already frittered away my share.
分文不剩 I didn't get a cent.
夜之间 Overnight
我竟然成了 I found myself
遭人嫌弃的落魄潦倒之人 an outcast, persona non grata.
我 I...
我全然不知此事 I had no idea.
我被赶出了住处 Thrown out of home
落脚在一个小客栈里 I set myself up in a little inn
忽然之间我就大病一场 where I fell suddenly and terribly ill
几乎死去 and nearly died.
那一夜 That night..
床前明月光 Moonlight at the foot of my bed
疑是地上霜 Appears to me like frost.
举头望明月 Lifting my head, I behold the moon
低头 Lowering it,
思故乡 I think of home.
我知道你这首诗 I know that poem of yours
刚才说到 What I was saying
我要告别浪荡生活 is that I'm done with my prodigal ways.
我要娶妻了 I'm getting married!
一个月后我就要去安陆 In a month, I'll go to Anlu
拜见许家 and pay my respects to the Xus.
许家有个院子我可以住 They have a courtyard where I can live.
我要生儿育女 I want to have children.
虽然我的儿子不能姓李 Though my sons won't bear my surname
可是这许家 the surname Xu
毕竟也是大姓世家 is that of a great and respected family.
你要入赘许家 You're joining your bride's family?
他说许家是大家 He said the Xus were a powerful family.
成为许家的赘婿 By joining them as a son-in-law
他就可以从此一改身份 he could change his status.
他李白是个商人之子下民之后 He was the son of a lowly merchant.
他的后代子孙改姓许 For his children to be surnamed Xu
是好事 was a good thing.
我坚决反对此事 But I was totally opposed to it.
赘婿 Taking her family name?
赘婿在我大唐是最被人小看的 Society disdained men who did that.
将来他有何脸面去面对 In the future how could he face
李家的列祖列宗 his own ancestors?
离襄阳不远了 你看 It's not far from Xiangyang. Look!
他请我陪他一起去襄阳 He asked me to go with him to Xiangyang
把这事问一下 to get some advice.
他最尊重信任的一位朋友 If his most respected and trusted friend
如果他也反对 was also against it
入赘之事就作罢 then he'd give up the plan.
孟浩然他家是人间仙境 Meng Haoran lives in a wonderland.
高克你一定会喜欢孟浩然 Brother Gao, you'll adore Meng Haoran!
孟浩然 Meng Haoran.
我当然听说过他的名字 Of course I knew his name.
春眠不觉晓 Deep sleeps of spring
处处闻啼鸟 all around me birds sing.
夜来风雨声 A loud stormy night
花落知多少 countless petals fall.
主人不在家他前日出门了 Master Meng isn't home. He left two days ago.
出门了 He left?
主人交代 My Master said
友人来访就说他去了江夏 to tell friends he'd gone to Jiangxia,
要坐船转去扬州 where he'd change boats for Yangzhou.
我得去追他 I have to catch up with him.
李兄 Brother Li!
快 我们追去江夏 Hurry, we'll race to Jiangxia
开船之前赶上孟先生 and catch him before his boat leaves.
入赘许家之事 This business with the Xus -
我之前给孟先生写过一封信 I wrote to him about it.
他一定是去扬州找我了 I'm sure he's going to Yangzhou to see me!
我们又到了江夏 And so we returned to Jiangxia
黄鹤楼 and Yellow Crane Tower.
去扬州的船是哪条 Which is the boat for Yangzhou?
扬州的船 The boat to Yangzhou
刚刚起帆走了 just set sail.
李兄 Brother Li!
孟先生 Mr Meng!
我请教你之事 The advice I asked for.
当行不当行啊 should I do it or not?
江风太大声音传不过来呀 The sound of the wind muffled his answer.
孟先生 Mr Meng!
高克借你双臂之力一用 Brother Gao, I need your strength!
小二 Waiter!
给我拿笔墨来 Give me brush and ink.
我要题诗 I want to write a poem!
好客官松手 Okay, sir, let me go.
孤帆远影碧空尽 The lone boat slowly vanishes against the sky
惟见长江天际流 I see only the Yangtze flowing to the edge of the world.
小二 Waiter -
我这几句绝句 these excellent lines of mine.
写得比崔颢的怎么样 How do they compare with Cui Hao's?
好诗好诗 Very fine, very fine.
就是呢客人写的少了点 It's just that, it's a bit short.
才四句 Only four lines.
崔公子人家那是八句 Master Cui's poem is eight lines.
诗的好坏与句子多少有关系吗 What's length have to do with quality?
高兄 Brother Gao -
我方才突然诗兴大发 I was just overcome with inspiration.
那日一别之后 After parting that day
转眼又是数年 more years fled past.
我决定去投军 I decided to join the army.
我是个笨拙的人 I'm awkward in company.
没有李白的洒脱 I didn't have Li Bai's ease
更不像李白王维他们才气纵横 or his and Wang Wei's immense talent.
我高家本就是军人出身 We Gaos have always been military men.
出生入死博得一名 It's in braving danger we make our name.
是我们高家的命数 That's the Gao family's destiny.
高君素有文名 You're known for your literary talent.
为何不留在我幕府做一个参军记室呢 Why not stay and be a military secretary
而要去领一支小小的马队 instead of leaving to lead a tiny cavalry?
将军 General -
安东诸郡 The districts of Andong
是我祖父三十年前征战之地 were where my grandfather fought 30 years ago.
子孙不肖不敢愧对先祖 Not to follow his example would bring dishonor.
必得披坚执锐上阵搏杀 I must put on my armor and do battle.
来来来 Come.
他领了一支前锋马队 This man leads a frontline cavalry.
你赢了他我就给你一支马队 If you win, I'll give you your own cavalry.
比什么 What are we competing in?
相扑 Wrestling.
相扑好啊 Good choice!
咱们的敌手契丹 Our opponents are Khitans.
它也是以相扑闻名的 They're renowned wrestlers.
好相扑 Fine. Let's wrestle.
好好 Bravo!
好 Well done!
不愧是高家后人 You're a worthy heir to the Gaos.
高队正 Captain Gao!
我在州一年 That whole year in Jizhou
没有写一首诗 I didn't write a single poem.
契丹发兵了 The Khitan army is on the move!
我奉命去侦查契丹兵 I was ordered to locate the Khitans.
但数月之间 For months
我们都找不到契丹主力的踪迹 we found no trace of them.
那边在那边呢 There! Over there!
契丹放火烧原了 The Khitans are burning the plains!
快退 Retreat!
将军有令 Orders from the General:
右军斥候骑兵一旅 A cavalry platoon of the Right Army
西北十二里外 twelve li to the northwest
小河南岸被围 has been ambushed by a river.
全队急发解围 We need to relieve the siege now!
全队急发 All soldiers mobilize!
自始至终 From start to finish
我们都没有找到契丹主力 we never found the Khitans'main forces.
我得到的下一个将令 The next order I received
就是全军退回守地 was to retreat and hold our position.
退军比起进军 A retreat is far more dangerous
凶险多了 than an advance.
好 Beautiful!
高三十五 Gao Thirty-five -
蓟州军 The Jizhou army
不是你该久留的地方 isn't a place for you.
回乡吧 Go home.
那是发去陇西的兵 Those soldiers are off to Longxi.
头发比我都白了 Their hair is whiter than mine
还不能卸了盔甲 and they still can't shed their armor.
那是这驿站的诗板亭 Is that the inn's poetry pavilion?
南来北往爱写诗的 Wherever they're from, poets
都要在那里留点东西 like to leave a little something here.
你也要写 Want to write a poem?
墙边有木炭 There's charcoal by the wall.
我啊 I...
又写诗了 wrote poetry again.
汉家烟尘在东北 O'er the northeast rises the smoke and dust of battle
汉将辞家破残贼 The Han fight the fierce enemy far from home
男儿本自重横行 The men vanquish all before them.
高适 Gao Shi.
喂 Hey.
高适 Gao Shi.
高三十五 Gao Thirty-five.
高适 Gao Shi.
哪位 Who's there?
我 Me!
李兄 Brother Li?
李兄你怎么在这里 Brother Li! What are you doing here?
高兄啊高兄 Brother Gao, ah, Brother Gao
没想到在这里又相见了 I never imagined meeting you here.
我刚刚在那亭子的诗板上 I just saw on that poetry board -
无意看见你刚留下的诗 quite by accident - the poem you wrote.
一问你果然在 I asked and it's true, you're here!
李兄啊你 Brother Li, you...
你怎么这个打扮 why are you dressed like that?
我在逃命 I'm fleeing for my life.
那首新诗 That new poem of yours -
高适 Gao Shi -
是你写的最好的一首 it's the best one you've ever written.
恭喜 Congratulations!
战士军前半死生 While in cruel battle soldiers die
美人帐下犹歌舞 In the general's tent, beauties dance
少妇城南欲断肠 Young wives down south weep, comfortless
征人蓟北空回首 The men marching north gaze back at emptiness
高三十五 Gao Thirty-five -
这都是会流传千古的好句呀 these lines will live forever!
李兄不敢当 Brother Li, you're too kind.
李兄啊你因何逃命 Brother Li, why are you on the run?
说来话长 It's a long story.
几年前黄鹤楼一别 Years ago, after we parted at Yellow Crane Tower
我便去了安陆 I went to Anlu.
后来我的岳父去世了 Later my father-in-law died.
他有个领养的远房侄子 He'd raised a younger relative
继承了家业 as his heir.
处处为难我 He pushed me aside.
当初你不是也劝我 Didn't you warn me
不要入赘许家吗 not to join my wife's family?
有一日丹丘生来访 One day Master Danqiu came by.
他是修道之人 He'd entered a Taoist order.
我的蜀郡旧识 He's an old friend from home.
你听说过他的名字吗 Have you heard of him?
当然 Of course.
大鹏不为燕雀之居 A Great Eagle can't fit in a finch's nest!
我便离开了安陆 So I left Anlu
与丹丘生周游天下 and travelled with Master Danqiu
寻仙问道 seeking the Way to immortality.
时也没有什么结果 It's not something that comes quickly.
正巧有一位朋友在州军队内 A friend in the Youzhou Army
邀请我去 invited me to visit.
我就想 Maybe
也许我能在边塞建功报国 I could serve the Tang on the frontier.
结果 As a result,
你知道我发现了什么 guess what I discovered?
安禄山 An Lushan
有造反之心 was planning a rebellion.
安禄山身兼三镇节度使 Governor An Lushan
是朝廷最倚重的边关大将 is the Tang's most trusted general on the borders.
这是杀头的事 That's a capital crime!
李兄可有证据 Do you have proof?
我知道 Yes.
那天我去一个裁缝店 That day I went to a tailor
取我修补的袍子 to pick up my robe.
呐 就是这件 This one.
裁缝搞错了 The tailor made a mistake.
将别的袍子给了我 He gave me the wrong robe -
是一件官服 an official one.
却不是我朝的官服 But not one of the Tang!
我当时也觉得没有什么大不了的 I didn't think much about it at the time.
就把那件官服送回去了 I returned the robe.
可结果 But as it turned out -
那日午后我出门游玩 I went for a stroll that afternoon
可来经过裁缝店 and passing the tailor's on my way back
就见那裁缝店 saw that his shop
已经被烧成了一片平地 was in flames. Nothing was left.
我正在疑惑之际 I was deciding what to do
我那朋友匆匆来找我 when my friend rushed over
上我不要再回住处 and warned me not to go home
即刻逃走 but to flee immediately.
裁缝和学徒 The tailor and his apprentices
全被节度使府内的亲兵拿走 were arrested by the governor's personal guards
已经斩了 and executed.
我一出城城门就关了 As I left the city, the gates shut.
而且一路而来 and the whole way here
我察觉 I noticed
身后有一股追兵 soldiers on my tail.
我要报知朝廷 I need to report to the court.
我想 I'm sure
那件官服 that official robe
一定是安禄山 was part of the rebel An Lushan's plans
为造反准备的 was part of the rebel An Lushan's plans
封官之用 to form his own court!
这是天下第一等大事 This is a very grave matter.
朝廷不会听 But the court won't believe
一个布衣百姓的一面之词 the words of a commoner.
我必须要找一个有官职之人 I have to find an official
替我上书朝廷 who'll speak to the Court for me,
报告此事 and report the situation.
报告一个处死一个 Everyone who tries, dies.
有个屁用 It's damn useless.
谁 Who's there?
安禄山之心 An Lushan's ambitions
边关尽人皆知 are well known in the borderlands.
但是季林甫要安禄山史思明 But Li Lin fu needs An Lushan and Shi Siming
这些蕃将做臂膀 as allies in court.
圣上呢 As for the emperor -
年纪大了 he's getting old
不想多生事端 and doesn't like trouble.
报了还不如不报呢 So what's the point of reporting?
足下是何人 Please, who are you?
你们二位 You -
李白高适 Li Bai, Gao Shi -
我听说过你们的名字 I've heard of you both.
你们是诗人 You're poets.
你听过我的名字 You've heard of me?
快伏下 Quick, down!
追我的来了 They found me!
既然是人尽皆知的事情 But if everyone knows about it
他们为什么还要追杀我 why do they still want to kill me?
那件官服 That official robe -
也许他们眼下 may be they're not ready
还不想让人知道吧 for people to find out.
李白你自己出来吧 Li Bai, come out.
你不出来 If you don't
我可要放火烧屋了 we'll burn the place down.
李白你写的诗 Li Bai, those poems of yours -
我喜欢 I like them.
外面的 You out there -
安禄山的弟兄们 An Lushan's men, right?
足下何人 Who are you?
在下郭子仪 I'm Guo Ziyi.
陇右节度使 Serving general under Geshu Han,
哥舒翰帐下一员偏将 Governor of Longyou.
郭子仪 Guo Ziyi?
你居然在这里 Surprised to see you here.
陇右要管我们平卢的事吗 You're meddling in the Pinglu Army's affairs now?
要管 Yes.
我这一屋子的弟兄们 I have a houseful of men here
被你们吵得 who thanks to your noise
个好觉都睡不着 can't get a good night's sleep.
都想管这事 So it's all of our business.
久仰郭子仪的大名好身手 Guo Ziyi, your great reputation precedes you. Great skills.
既然你要管这事 Since you want to deal with this
我们只好给陇右再记上一笔 the Longyou army will owe us one.
将来总要你们一并奉还 You'll pay for this one day.
走 Let's go.
今日日落之前 So, before the sun sets
就要在驿站处斩示众 they're going to execute you at the inn?
天下有事 The empire is in trouble.
国家要的正是郭兄这样 The country needs men like you -
有勇有谋的人才 brave and strategic.
怎么能因为 How can it be that
行军途中军营失火 a fire breaks out in a military camp
就连坐主将加以处斩 and you get blamed - and beheaded!
军规本来就严苛 Military discipline is harsh.
从前我斩过人 I've executed others in the past
今日我被斩 today it's my turn.
天命 Heaven decrees it.
这不对 But it's wrong!
天生我等之才 Heaven gave us these gifts -
必然有我等的用处 surely our day will come!
昨日我来 When I arrived yesterday
就听闻哥舒大夫率军西行 I heard Geshu Han was leading his army west.
离此有半日路程 They're half a day's march away.
哥舒大夫与我家有旧谊 Sir Geshu is an old friend of my family.
我去求他 I'll go plead with him.
李兄你无论如何守护好郭兄 Do all you can to protect Brother Guo.
落日之前我一定回来 I'll be back before sunset!
速去速回 Hurry.
让开 Move!
刀下留人 Stop the execution!
所以你们二人 So the two of you
一起救了郭子仪一命 together saved Guo Ziyi's life.
那么一个才能之士 Such a talented man
不该那么无名冤死 shouldn't die a wrongful death.
谁能想到郭令公将来 Who could've guessed
要平定安史之乱 that later, he'd suppress An Lushan's rebellion
光复唐室呢 and restore the Tang?
是没人知道 No one could've known.
高兄 Brother Gao,
你怎么说服哥舒翰的 How'd you persuade Geshu Han?
没什么 It wasn't too hard.
蒙哥舒大夫青眼有加 He wanted me to work for him.
我答应有朝一日 I said that in the future
无论他要出征何方 wherever he led his troops into battle
我都会听他召唤 he just had to call for me
入他的幕府 and I'd serve him as secretary.
你不是不想入幕府 But you never wanted
当个记室文人吗 a desk job, right?
我不想 I still don't.
我给了自己十年时间 I give myself ten years.
十年 Ten years.
高适我们第一次遇到 Gao Shi, the first time we met
是十年之前了吧 was ten years ago, yes?
是 Yes.
十年 Ten years.
好 Right.
我也给我自己十年时间 I'll also give myself ten years.
且看我们十年之后 Let's see if in ten years
是否能身登龙门 we can make it into the court.
就此别过 I take my leave
高适 Gao Shi -
行路难行路难 Hard is the journey, hard is the journey
多歧路今安在 So many forks in the road, which is the true one?
长风破浪会有时 One day the wind and waves will favor me
直挂云帆济沧海 I'll raise white sails and head to sea.
高三十五 Gao Thirty-Five -
你回来啦 you're back!
你还要我读书给你听吗 Still want me to read to you?
你有长进吗 Have you made progress?
没长进还得要 Not really, I still need you!
好 Great!
梁园依旧只是更残破了 Liang Gardens were even more of a ruins.
没想到我在驿站上 I never imagined that the poem I wrote at Pujinyi Inn
一时愤懑写下的诗 in a rush of indignation
广为流传 would spread wide and far.
从此人人都知道 From then on everyone knew
我高适是一个诗人 that I, Gao Shi, was a poet.
而且刻苦多年 What's more, after years of effort
我终于能自己读书了 I could finally study on my own.
但是诗有了名 But, the poem's fame
却让诗里的那位 made the general I spoke of -
美人帐下犹歌舞的将军愤怒 the one with the dancing girls - furious.
也让满朝的权贵们 And caused all the high officials
对我唯恐避之不及 to avoid me like the plague.
他们想要的 What they wanted
是溜须拍马之徒 were people to flatter them.
而不是一个可能 Not a literary man
会让他们声名狼籍的文人 who could ruin their reputation.
一个文人 A literary man.
在商丘老家 Back home in Shangqiu,
我一住就是 ten years slipped past.
高三十五君 Gao Thirty-Five -
足下近安 I hope you've been well.
李白来信 Li Bai wrote to me.
他说十年间他寻仙问道 In ten years searching for immortality and the Tao
仙道没寻得 he found neither.
他的名声却更大了 His fame, however, had grown.
他意外地得到圣上的宣召 Out of the blue came an imperial summons
被召入长安 and he was called to Chang'an.
他现在入了翰林院 As a member of the Hanlin Academy
很得圣上的赏识 he won the emperor's admiration.
先皇崇信道法 His Majesty Xuan zong believed in the Tao.
李白说 Li Bai said
荐举他的人 the one who recommended him to the court
是玉真公主 was Princess Yuzhen.
哦 Oh?
谁能想到 Who'd imagine
玉真公主荐举了李白 Princess Yuzhen would recommend Li Bai!
玉真公主那时已经入了道门 By then she had converted to Taoism.
喜爱有道之士世外之人 She adored Taoists, unworldly people.
世外之人 Unworldly people
他啊 He -
终于走通了终南捷径 finally found the shortcut to the court.
他邀请我去长安 He invited me to Chang'an.
也说长安他结识了很多朋友 He said he had many friends there.
朝内朝外人人都喜欢他 In court and beyond, everyone loved him.
他要帮我谋功名成功业 He wanted to help me make my mark.
速来长安速速速 Hurry, come to Chang'an, don't delay!
这位兄台借问 Excuse me, sir -
去延寿坊怎么走 how can I get to Longevity Hall?
太白先生可谓天才放逸呀 Mr Li is truly an unbridled genius.
仰天大笑出门去我辈岂是蓬蒿人 I toss back my head, laugh at the sky, we will not stay down for long.
文词真是卓尔不群无敌于世啊 Beautiful line. Peerless!
要我说 How about.
紫阳之真人 邀我吹玉笙 Ziyang the Immortal, asks me to play my jade flute
那才是意气飘然 Such a free spirit!
李白是否住在此处 is this Li Bai's home?
对对对李学士就住这儿 Yes, he lives here.
你也喜欢他的诗 Are you a fan, too?
每天总有人来找他 Every day, his fans come
都聚在门外 to gather here.
狂热得很 It's quite a scene.
高三十五君 Gao Thirty-Five?
好久不见好久不见啊 It's been ages, ages!
尊台是 And you, my good man, are...?
二十年前岐王府 Twenty years ago, at Prince Qi's residence
我们一起躲在狮头里面 we hid together inside a lion.
我是杜甫啊 I'm Du Fu!
原来是你 So it's you!
真是太好了 This is wonderful.
这些年我一直读到你的诗 I've been reading your poems in recent years.
大家都喜欢你的边塞诗 Everyone loves your border poem
但我最喜欢你那句 But my favourite is your line
清风几万里 江上一归人 Fresh breezes blow for thousands of miles, a traveler sails home on the river.
洒脱极了 So free and elegant!
杜兄过奖 You're too kind.
会当凌绝顶 一览众山小 One must ascend the highest peak
会当凌绝顶 一览众山小 to see how small the mountains are
才是胸怀雄阔呀 expresses such lofty ideals.
你也来找李白 Are you here to see Li Bai too?
是啊敲门不应 Yes. I knocked but no one answered.
我前日都没见到季学士回来 He hasn't been home for days.
他可真能喝 He's quite a drinker!
他呀一定又流连在曲江那个胡姬酒肆 He'll be at the Qujiang wine shop where exotic beauties
新歌新舞 perform new songs and dances.
来走 Come, let's go.
我们一起去寻他 We'll look for him together.
曲江池 Qujiang Pool!
今年的曲江宴刚办过 The year's scholar parties are over
不过酒楼酒肆的生意 but the wine shops
还是兴隆之极 still do a roaring trade.
杜兄也在准备应试吧 Brother Du, are you preparing for the exams?
我考了两次 I've tested twice
还没考中 but didn't make it.
我的曲江宴 My own Qujiang party
还得等等 will have to wait.
就是这里 Here we are.
那呢 Over there!
贺监 Inspector He!
贺监他没事 Inspector He is fine.
你们看贺监在池子里睡看了 See? Sound asleep in the pool!
快快快太白兄就在上面 Hurry, Li Bai is up there now!
贺监刚才那句是什么 What was Inspector He's line?
莫言春度芳菲尽 Don't mourn spring's fallen petals
芳菲尽 spring's fallen petals -
好句好句 Great line!
不好连不好连 Not an easy one to follow!
快连快连要连不好 C'mon, if you don't do well
不能走下这块板 you have to stay on the plank!
明朝却待入华园 Tomorrow we enter a glorious garden!
如何 How's that?
也罢也罢让你下来 It'll do. You can get down.
你得补一幅字来啊 You need to do some calligraphy.
使得使得 No problem.
杜子美 Du Fu?
新朋友 A new friend?
轮到崔宗之了 It's Cui Zongzhi's turn.
我就算了吧 Can't I pass?
不不 宗之 上 No!
我怕高 I'm afraid of heights!
贺监年长宗之年轻 You're younger than Inspector He -
这板啊应该长一点儿 you need a longer plank!
宗之别怕 Don't be afraid.
来给宗之一个琵琶 Here's a lute.
弹着就不怕啦 Play and you'll be fine!
李白 Li Bai.
没中要罚两杯 You missed! You're fined two cups!
高适高三十五 Gao Shi, Gao Thirty-Five!
来来来这位啊 Come, come. This is -
高适 Gao Shi -
大家都听说过吧 you've all heard of him, right?
我们二十多年的好朋友了 We've been good friends for over 20 years.
来来来介绍一下 Come, let me introduce you.
汝阳王 Prince of Ruyang!
睿宗皇帝长孙 Emperor Ruizong's eldest grandson!
我们诗酒平交不论王侯 We're all equals here, even the imperial clan!
久仰久仰 It's an honor.
还有这位 And this here
李邕 李太守 is Li Yong, Prefect Li -
行书冠绝当下 best "running script" calligrapher of our day.
幸会幸会 A pleasure!
久仰久仰 I'm honored.
这两位 And these two gentlemen
这两位王昌龄岑参 are Wang Changling and Cen Shen!
你一定听说过 You've heard of them, of course.
秦时明月汉时关 The bright moon of Qin, the passes of Han
万里长征人未还 The soldiers on the march have yet to return.
见笑见笑 Just a minor poem.
忽如一夜春风来 As if brought by a spring breeze
千树万树梨花开 Snow blooms on trees like pear blossoms
久仰久仰 An honor.
你们都是边塞诗出名 You're all known for your border poems.
久仰久仰久仰 Honored to meet you.
崔宗之少年英俊 Cui Zongzhi - young and gifted!
久仰久仰 I'm honored.
宗之这琵琶 Zongzhi's lute playing
弹出了破阵曲的心惊胆战 expresses the anxiety of the battle march.
王维兄 Brother Wang Wei!
王维兄也在 Brother Wang Wei is here too.
太巧了太巧了 Such serendipity!
王维兄 Brother Wang Wei
你也来一起连两句 join our poetry game?
各位高兴我还有事 Enjoy yourselves, I have to be somewhere.
先退了 Enjoy yourselves, I have to be somewhere.
摩诘居士被你这一下酒嗝熏得 That burp cost Wang Wei
修行少了十几年 ten years of self-cultivation.
到我了 My turn!
我来我来 I'll have a go.
高三十五高三十五 Gao Thirty-five, Gao Thirty-five -
快告诉我 quickly, tell me -
你怎么就突然来了长安了 what brings you here to Chang'an?
你怎么不事先知会我一声 Why didn't you drop me a line first?
我 I...
我收到李兄的一封急信 I received your urgent letter.
我的急信 My urgent letter?
昌龄兄你是不是连不出来啊 Brother Changling, are you having trouble?
昌龄兄 Brother Changling -
你要是连不了的话 if you can't continue the poem
就得认罚啊 you'll have to pay the penalty.
我来我来我来 Here I come!
琵琶来 Give me the lute.
李白他不是凡尘中人 Li Bai is no ordinary mortal.
他是天上谪仙 He's a celestial being!
那我该当何时回天上去啊 So when can I get back to the heavens?
胡姬胡姬舞得再快些 Exotic Beauty - dance faster!
来 Here we go!
琴奏龙门之绿桐 A zither from Dragon Gate's parasol tree
玉壶美酒清若空 A jade cup with wine of perfect clarity
好 Bravo!
李白是商人之子又有胡人血脉 Li Bai - a merchant's son with exotic bloodlines.
却是天下知名 And yet so famous.
我大唐真是海纳百川啊 The Tang really embraces all kinds.
催弦拂柱与君饮 I tune the strings and drink with thee
胡姬貌如花 Lovely as flowers, Exotic Beauty
当笑春风 Selling wine, smiling at spring breezes
笑春风舞罗衣 Smiling at spring breezes, dancing robes aflutter
这不是连句 You didn't follow the last verse -
你这是新句 you wrote a new poem.
连句式都变了 It's not even the same form.
要罚 Penalty!
好 罚什么你们说 Sure, what's the penalty?
你做出十首诗才能下来 Write ten poems or you can't come down.
十首算什么 Ten poems is nothing.
我做百首给你 I'll write one hundred for you!
胡姬胡姬来再舞得急些 Beauty - dance faster still!
高兄 Brother Gao!
连我的马都心急地要归家了 Even my horse is keen to go home.
杜兄 Brother Du -
就此别过 I take my leave.
请回吧 No need to see me off.
高兄刚到长安 You only just got to Chang'an
就这么匆忙离去 and now you're rushing off?
何不多留几日 Why not stay a few more days?
李白 Li Bai -
李白兄酒醒 when Brother Li Bai sobers up
定然要赶来挽留高兄的 he'll definitely want to keep you here.
他这一醉 This endless drinking -
几时能醒啊 when will he ever sober up?
大鹏逍遥云端 The Great Eagle soars amongst the clouds
他本就不羁人间小节 He has no time for mundanities.
我不怪他 I don't blame him.
杜兄 Brother Du -
道别之前 before I leave
能陪我去一个地方吗 would you go somewhere with me?
杜兄 Brother Du -
你知道吗 did you know
我的祖父 that when my grandfather
十岁为骁骑郎将 was 20, as a cavalry officer
生擒突厥车鼻可汗 he captured the Turks' Chebi Khan.
三十岁随李勣攻灭高句丽 At 30, he helped Li Ji annihilate the Goguryeo Kingdom.
四十岁大破新罗 At 40, he smashed the Silla.
四十二岁 At 42
他就去世了 he passed away.
我今年已经四十三了 I'm 43 this year.
杜兄 Brother Du -
愿你来年一举得登龙门 I hope you pass the exam and are admitted to court.
早有所成 Here's to your early success.
别过 Farewell!
保重 Take care.
我呀 As for me
又回了商丘梁园 I returned home once more.
好箭法 Good shot.
为何不射啊 Why didn't you shoot?
一只孤雁 A solitary goose
南归 flying back south -
让它去吧 let it go.
高兄如此慈悲心肠 Brother Gao, such compassion -
是有一日要入佛门吗 are you planning to become a Buddhist?
杜甫兄 Brother Du Fu!
高兄 Brother Gao!
久别无差 Have you been well?
高三十五 Gao Thirty-five.
李白 Li Bai -
你 you..
你为何一身道装啊 why are you wearing Taoist robes?
李白兄在长安这几年 These last few years in Chang'an
李林甫对季白兄 Li Linfu became increasingly
越加忌恨 jealous and ill-willed towards Li Bai.
贵妃也恨我 The emperor's Precious Consort hates me.
我还以为我写诗 I thought I'd written a poem
是赞美贵妃的美貌 in praise of her beauty.
没想到 I never imagined
贵妃觉得我是在取笑她 she'd think I was mocking her.
所以杨国忠也恨上了李白兄 so her cousin, Chancellor Yang Guozhong, hates him too.
长安 Chang'an
成了个凶险之极的地方 has become a treacherous place.
圣上 His Majesty...
攀龙不成 I didn't win the Emperor's favor
忽然堕下天来 and fell rudely from grace.
定能摧眉折腰事权贵 To bow and scrape before the high-born
使我不得开心颜 Steals all the joy from my heart.
那接下来你有什么打算 So... what do you plan to do?
我要的依道门 I will enter a Taoist order.
皈依道门 A Taoist order?
高适 Gao Shi -
我不是戏言 I'm not joking.
真的 Really.
你看这梁园 Behold these ruins
当日的梁王 once King Liang's garden palace.
今又安在呢 Where is he now?
这高台之上 This terrace -
又曾有多少歌声舞影 once rang with song and dance.
你我年少相逢 When we met in our youth
都有凌云之志 we both had such ambition.
但是转眼之间 But in the blink of an eye
我们都已经年近半百 here we are, nearly fifty.
我的夫人 My wife
也新近去世 passed away recently
人间之道 The ways of this world
我走不下去了 are no longer for me.
高适 Gao Shi -
余生已短 Life is short.
我要走出世之道 I want to become a Taoist hermit.
北海的高天师 Master Gao of Beihai
已在济南搭好了一个道坛 has prepared a Taoist altar in Jinan.
要将道篆授予太白兄 He'll officially ordain Brother Li there.
高兄你可能不知 Brother Gao, you may not know
领受道篆是件艰难之事 but ordination is an arduous undertaking.
李白兄需得登上道坛 Brother Li must ascend that altar
诵经唱咒 and chant scripture and spells
日以继夜 day and night.
所以我想请你们二位去 So I want to ask the two of you
为我护持 to support me.
高适 Gao Shi -
你是我最好的朋友 you're my best friend.
你了解我 You understand me.
以我的脾气 With my character
我一个人去 if I go alone
根本坚持不下来 I'll never make it.
这只大鹏 This Great Eagle
飞不动了 can no longer fly
也不想飞了 and doesn't want to either.
他说 He said
我是他最好的朋友 I was his best friend.
我是吗 Was I?
无论如何 In any case
我答应了他 I agreed.
新晋道士 Newly ordained Taoists,
李兄 Brother Li
仪式已成 the rituals have concluded
虚无为师 Nothingness will be your teacher
自然为友 and nature your friend.
炼尔冰雪之容 Refine your snowy countenance
延尔金石之寿 and extend your golden life.
高兄 Brother Gao -
我看到了漫天仙人 I saw the immortals of heaven
邀我回天上去 inviting me to return there
我要回天上去了 I want to return to heaven
大家一起祝贺李白兄 Let's congratulate Brother Li Bai
从此入了道门 on his admission to the Taoist orders.
李兄 Brother Li
你这一入道门 you're a Taoist now.
成了圣人 You're a holy man.
你往后还这么喝吗 Are you still going to drink like this?
喝 Yes!
这酒就是我用来修行的 Wine is part of my spiritual practice.
琼浆玉液 It's the nectar of immortality.
高适 Gao Shi -
我们结识二十多年 in the 20 years of our acquaintance
这是我第一次看你 this is the first time I've seen you
这么痛快地喝酒 drink with such gusto!
来来来 Come! Come!
好好喝 Drink up!
喝 Bottoms up!
我不能喝了 I can't drink anymore.
不行不行 That won't do.
我也不能喝了 I'm done too.
不行 No way.
岑夫子 Master Cen
丹丘生 Master Danqiu
你们得继续喝 You have to keep drinking!
大家都得喝 Everyone has to drink.
不能停 No one stop!
我有了一首诗 I have a poem!
我要给大家以诗助兴 I'll revive your spirits with poetry.
君不见 Can you see
黄河之水天上来 the Yellow River decanting from the sky
奔流到海不复回 And racing to the sea never to return?
君不见高堂明镜悲白发 Can you see the grief of white hair in the mirrors
朝如青丝暮成雪 As dawn's black silk turns to evening snow?
人生得意须尽欢 When life goes well, be joyous
莫使金樽空对月 Never show the moon an empty cup
天生我材必有用 Heaven gave me talent for a reason
千金散尽还复来 Spend now, riches return in season
烹羊宰牛且为乐 Stew the lamb, prepare the ox, let us feast
会须一饮三百杯 Tonight we'll drink three hundred cups at least
岑夫子丹丘生 Master Cen, Master Danqiu
将进酒 杯莫停 drink and don't put down your cups
与君歌一曲 I'll sing for you -
请君为我倾耳听 Please lend your ears
钟鼓玉不足贵 Bells and jades are not so precious
但愿长醉不复醒 As eternal inebriation
古来圣贤皆寂寞 Ancient sages leave no name
唯有饮者留其名 It's great drinkers who enjoy great fame
陈王昔时宴平乐 At the table of Prince Chen of old
斗酒十千恣欢谑 Wine flowed like water
主人何为言少钱 Hosts shouldn't fret over costs -
径须沽取对君酌 Buy more wine and fill those cups
五花马 千金裘 Fine horses, expensive robes -
呼儿将出换美酒 Tell the servant to sell these for wine
与尔同销万古愁 We'll banish sorrow from this world
与尔同销 We'll banish
万古愁 sorrow from this world.
李白 Li Bai -
我走了 I have to go.
走了 You're going?
走了 Yes.
今日一别 After this goodbye
不知何日再相见 who knows when we'll meet again?
也许从此再无相见之日啊 Perhaps we won't see each other again.
今日不见 If we don't -
天上见 see you in the celestial realms.
你是谪仙人要回天上 You're a celestial being, returning home.
我 As for me -
我是世间人 I'm of this world.
我在世间盘桓 I'll linger here.
李白 Li Bai -
我要出塞去投哥舒翰的帐下了 I'm off to the frontier to serve under Geshu Han.
赴我十年之约 I'll keep my ten year vow.
什么什么约 What... what vow?
你诗里说的对 Your poem said it all.
黄河之水奔流到海不复回 The Yellow River racing to the sea, never to return.
余生虽短 Though I'm running out of time
有朝一日我面对列祖列宗 when I face my ancestors
我能告诉他们 I'll be able to tell them
虽然不能像他们一样 although I couldn't be like them -
一刀一枪拼杀沙场 blooded heroes on the battlefield
我只成了个 and I was only able to become
小小的文人记室 a very minor clerk
却也曾一笔一画 yet with each stroke of my brush
一样的驰骋疆场 I too galloped across battlefields.
驰骋 Galloped...
好气概 Such lofty spirit!
好好 Bravo, bravo!
不过高适 But, Gao Shi -
你一把年纪了去边关 If you're going to the frontier at your age
我来试试你的体魄如何 let me test how strong you are!
来 Come
我们来比试比试 let's wrestle.
来 Sure!
高适 Gao Shi -
你赢了我了 you won.
你去吧 Go then.
去吧 Go then.
别过 Farewell.
赵客缦胡缨 Warriors of Zhao with tassels flying
吴钩霜雪明 Curved swords bright as shining snow
银鞍照白马 Silver saddles on white steeds
飒沓如流星 Galloping past like shooting stars
这首诗我二十年前 I wrote this poem 20 years ago
就是照看你的模样写的高适 it was my impression of you, Gao Shi!
生者为过客 The living are but passers-by
死者为归人 The dead have gone back home
天地一逆旅 The world is an inn that welcomes and farewells
同悲万古尘 The ancient dust is soaked with tears.
初到陇右 When I first got to Longyou
就是围攻石堡城 we laid siege to Stone Fort.
石堡城易守难攻 It's easy to defend, hard to attack.
三万唐军围攻了半年之久 For six months, 30,000 Tang soldiers laid siege.
死伤惨重 Casualties were heavy.
最后吐蕃守军粮绝投降 Starved of supplies, the Tubos finally surrendered
我们才知 That's when we learned
这石堡城只有六百守军 only 600 men had defended the fort.
六百守军 A mere 600 defenders
让我们在城下彷徨了半年呐 kept us pacing outside its walls half a year.
云山城 Yunshan Fort
正是又一个石堡城啊 is another Stone Fort.
报 Reporting!
拂晓 Dawn.
石堡城暂且与我无关 I'm not here about Stone Fort.
说回李白 Return to the topic of Li Bai.
虽然人在边关 Although I was at the frontier
我时常能读到季白的新诗 I often read his new poems.
他游荡在大江南北名山大川 He roamed the great mountains and rivers.
人生有他的诗 He had regrets, but his poetry
却更精彩了 became even more brilliant.
公公 Sir -
人生憾事多吗 Do you have many regrets in life?
憾事 Regrets?
当然 Of course.
就算我有幸能够成就一番功业 Even if I perform meritorious deeds,
后人至多只会在宦官列传里 only in the biographies of eunuchs
看到我的名字 will people ever see my name.
时局一年年却是让人不安 The situation in the country is worrying.
朝政更加乱了 The court is in chaos.
人人自危 Everyone feels in danger.
我相熟的诗人中 Among the poets I know
王昌龄崔宗之被流放 Wang Changling and Cui Zongzhi are in exile.
北海太守李邕 Governor of Beihai, Li Yong.
七十高龄被杖杀 was 70 when they beat him to death.
边关艰苦却简单 Frontier life is hard, but uncomplicated.
转眼已是十年 Ten years flew by.
我的人生将到尽头了 My life was nearing its end.
十年之间仿佛什么都没有发生 These ten years seemed uneventful.
那些年 In all this time
我只见过李白一次 I only saw Li Bai once.
有一回我公务途经宣城 was in Xuan City on official business.
个渡口 It was at the ferry crossing.
那是谁啊 Who's that?
李白大诗人 Li Bai, the great poet -
据说还有道行 and Taoist too!
汪伦县令对他崇拜 Magistrate Wang Lun is a big fan.
那是李白的新夫人 That's Li Bai's new wife.
宗相国的孙女 The granddaughter of Chancellor Zong.
人生如此不亏了 Things have worked out for him.
他是个入赘的 一个赘婿 He joined her family, not the other way round.
这样的人物家世换我也入赘 For such an eminent family, I'd do it too.
换你也一样 And so would you!
李白啊李白 Li Bai, ah, Li Bai -
我以为我们两人的余生 I thought the paths we were on
就是如此了 were fixed.
但有时候突然之间 But sometimes, suddenly,
一日之内 within the space of a day,
却仿佛几百年一起发生了 a few centuries worth of events occur.
安禄山 An Lushan
十几年间将反未反 had been plotting rebellion for over ten years.
谁能想到 Who'd have thought that
李林甫一根朽木 Li Linfu, that rotten old stick
却是大厦将倾的最后一根柱子 would be the last pillar to fall, toppling the house.
李林甫虽然贪婪 Although Li Linfu was avaricious,
却精明强干 he was also brilliant and capable.
把持朝政十九年后 After 19 years of holding the dynasty together
他忽然去世 he died suddenly.
杨国忠接任 Yang Guozhong took his place.
安禄山 An Lushan
反了 rebelled.
报 Reporting!
传我命令 Pass on the order
召集全军 to gather the troops.
Official Appointments: Secretary, Ranks Eight and below
高仙芝 封常清 Gao Xian zhi and Feng Changqing
都被斩了 were both executed.
若大的朝廷竟然无可用之将 The great dynasty has no generals left.
只剩了我这个半身不遂的废人 I'm the last, and I'm half-paralyzed.
如果我抗命不出关决战 If I defy orders to fight this important battle
朝廷自然也会将我处斩 the court will naturally execute me too.
谁会接替我 Who will succeed me?
只怕是监军太监边令诚 I fear it'll be the Eunuch Inspector Bian Lingcheng
如果我年轻几岁 If I were a little younger
该多好 it'd be much better.
北斗七星高 Ursa Major sits high in the sky
哥舒夜带刀 Geshu is armed day and night
至今窥牧马 The Tubos lurk about the herds
不敢过临洮 But dare not cross Lintao
出关吧 Ride out the pass.
快开城门 Open the gates!
全军上下的兄弟们已经商议妥当 The whole army is in agreement.
大唐气运已尽 The Tang's luck has run out.
天下是大燕的天下了 The world belongs to An Lushan's Yan dynasty.
我们要投向安禄山 We're defecting to An Lushan.
哥舒翰 Geshu Han.
大家最后再问你一句 We'll ask you one last time -
你降 will you surrender
还是不降 or not?
扶我上马 Help me onto my horse.
只可惜我练了一辈子我们高家的枪法 Sadly, I spent a life practicing the spear
不曾上阵杀敌 yet never used it on a battlefield
只好在这里多杀几个宵小之辈 But I'll use it against these backstabbers.
高适 Gao Shi -
这些叛兵叛将其志在我 It's me those traitors are after.
如有机会我请君努力破围而出 If you can, I want you to escape the siege
票上皇帝 and tell the emperor
蕃将并非尽是叛臣 that not all northern tribes are traitors!
将军 General!
走高适 Go, Gao Shi!
我哥舒翰 I, Geshu Han,
没有降 won't surrender!
走 Go!
潼关陷落 Tong Pass had fallen.
朝廷逃离了长安 The court had fled from Chang'an.
我向西一路追赶 I chased westwards after them.
杨国忠被杀 They killed the Chancellor
贵妃被赐死 and made the Precious Consort commit suicide.
各处传来的都是官员将领 I heard many officials and soldiers
投降安禄山的消息 had surrendered to An Lushan.
那些没投降的 Among those who hadn't
中有些实力强劲野心庞大的 some powerful and ambitious men
造反了 had mutinied.
天下彻底乱了 The world was in chaos.
Early summer, the 44th year of Emperor Xuanzong's reign.
Emperor Xuan zong fled Chang'an for Sichuan.
Mid-summer, in Ningxia, his son was crowned Emperor Suzong.
Xuanzong was named Emperor Emeritus.
Xuanzong appointed his sons
to the posts of regional governors.
He made Prince Yong Governor of the Four Regions and General of Jiangling
In autumn, Suzong ordered Prince Yong back to Sichuan.
Prince Yong refused.
YANGZHOU. SIX MONTHS AFTER THE FALL OF TONG PASS
新任淮南节度使 The new Southern Region Governor
节制江淮三镇一切军政民务 has control of the Yangtze-Huai area
平定永王之乱 and quelled the prince's rebellion.
GAO SHI, SOUTHERN REGION GOVERNOR
报使君 Reporting, sir.
各地叛军正纷纷聚往江陵 Rebel troops are gathering at Jiangling.
报使君 Sir -
永王已令江淮租税一律解往江陵 Prince Yong orders state revenues sent to Jiangling.
哨马已出江陵 Cavalry scouts have left Jiangling.
报使君 Reporting, sir -
永王全军已出江陵未知去向 Prince Yong's troops have left Jiangling, whereabouts uncertain.
永王发出橄文召聚天下英雄 Prince Yong issued a call to all "heroes".
念 Read it.
盖闻有非常之危 It's said that extraordinary crises
必生非常之人 give rise to extraordinary people
得立非常之功 who achieve extraordinary things. Prince Yong -
是啊非常之危 It was an extraordinary crisis indeed
才让我这个从八品的小小官员 that led me, a lowly official of below 8th Rank
半年间 within six months
骤然成了三镇节度使 to become the Governor of three regions.
使君 永王全军去向已明 Governor, we have news of Prince Yong's army.
讲 Tell me.
沿江而下 They're coming down the Yangtze
正向扬州我军而来 heading for our army in Yangzhou.
三日可到 They'll arrive in three days.
永王真是庸才 谋大而智弱 Prince Yong is a mediocrity, more ambitious than wise.
要争天下 If he wanted to win control
当北向长安以击安史 he'd ride north to retake Chang'an from the rebels
或者东向唯阳解张巡之围 or east to relieve the siege of Suiyang.
虽然艰险 一旦成功 It wouldn't be easy, but if successful,
必然天下震动 it would change the world.
如今向东南来攻我 To ride southeast to attack me
明明是胆祛偏安 is the cowardly act of a weak ruler.
如何能让天下英雄归心 How can he win the loyalty of heroes?
永王声势如何 Does he have much clout?
有什么英雄人物投向永王吗 Have any great men joined in his cause?
永王传機天下 Prince Yong has sent out the call
并没有什么人响应 but no one has answered.
对了有一个诗人 Oh, right, except one poet.
李白 Li Bai.
李白投了永王 Li Bai is on Prince Yong's side?
李白为永王写了整整十一首诗 Li Bai wrote eleven whole poems for him.
十一首 Eleven poems?
永王正月东出师 In spring Prince Yong leads his army east
天子遥分龙虎旗 Flying the Imperial standard
楼船一举风波静 His warships calm the winds and sea
江汉翻为燕鹭池 Turning mighty rivers into gentle ponds
丹阳北固是吴关 Mt Beigu was once a fortress of Wu
画出楼台云水间 The towers reflections shimmered on the water
李夫人 Madam Li -
永王已经伏珠 Prince Yong has been executed.
李白犯下的 Li Bai's crime
是谋逆大罪 is that of treason.
是 I know.
李白 Li Bai -
你本已贩依道门 You'd already taken a Taoist path.
为何又要入世 Why tangle with worldly affairs?
我修道总无进展 I failed to advance my spiritual state.
山海之间究竟何处是仙人 Between mountain and sea, where do immortals dwell?
我与夫人隐居庐山 My wife and I lived a solitary life on Mt Lu.
永王派人几顾茅庐 Prince Yong sent several emissaries
诚邀我下山相助 to invite me to help him.
我一生只求一个机会一展身手 I wanted such a chance my whole life.
虽然壮士暮年怎能推托 Though I'm old, how could I refuse?
你不知道永王是造反吗 You didn't know he was rebelling?
造反 Rebelling?
永王不是天下兵马大元师吗 Wasn't he the Tang's top military officer?
兵马大元帅 Top military officer?
你不知如今这乱世天下 You didn't realise that in such chaos
有多少人要称王称帝吗 all types of men would claim the throne?
这 But...
李白 Li Bai -
你知道你现下身处何地吗 do you know where you are now?
江夏 Jiangxia.
黄鹤楼 Yellow Crane Tower.
对了高适高节度使 Right. Gao Shi, Governor Gao -
我们年少相识就在此地 we got to know each other here.
江夏黄鹤楼 Jiangxia... Yellow Crane Tower...
高三十五定能救我 Gao Thirty-Five will save me.
你 You...
节度使与你旧情越深 The depth of your old friendship
盾私包底的嫌疑越大 means they suspect a cover up!
你真不明白吗 Don't you see?
不和你多说了 I won't say any more.
你先看看这个 Just come and see this!
节度使令我与你说 The governor said to tell you
请你好好看看 to take a good look.
今日大唐天下 The world of the Tang
割据叛乱满目疮庚 is in turmoil, devastation as far as the eye can see.
处处都是江夏 Everywhere is like Jiangxia.
处处都是这样的黄鹤楼 Everywhere is in ruins like Yellow Crane Tower.
李夫人 Madam Li -
使君不用为我担心 Please don't worry about me.
不像我的夫君 I'm not like my husband.
我 I...
心灰意冷 am so disheartened.
是从此就在庐山深居了却余生 I'll spend my remaining years in seclusion on Mt Lu.
保重 Take care.
夫人 Wife!
天人 Wife!
夫人 Wife!
等我回庐山 I'll return to Mt Lu!
等我回庐山 Wait for me!
你没有救李白 You didn't save Li Bai.
朝堂之上如履薄冰 Court politics were like skating on thin ice.
一步之错万丈深渊 You were always one step from the abyss.
郭子仪向皇帝求情 Guo Ziyi interceded with the emperor
救了他 and saved him.
免死流放夜郎 Instead of execution, exile in the southwest.
如今的大唐精兵两支 Today the Tang has two elite armies.
一支在郭子仪郭令公摩下 One is under Guo Ziyi.
另一支 The other
就在高中丞您的号令之下 is under your command.
是 Yes.
吐蕃围困长安城已有三月 The Tubos have besieged Chang'an for three months.
高中丞按兵不动 You haven't mobilized your troops.
是怕重蹈哥舒翰东出潼关 Are you afraid of repeating Geshu Han's mistake
全军覆没的覆嫩吗 when his army was annihilated outside Tong Pass?
我也怕重蹈李白的覆敏 I'm also afraid of repeating Li Bai's mistake.
人生暮年急中出错 In old age, haste leads to error.
但是朝野传言 But the gossip in court has it
郭令公和高中丞 that you and Guo Ziyi
因为救还是不救李百而心生仇怨 fell out over whether to save Li Bai
中丞是因为和郭令公不和 That it's because of this discord
而有意贴误军机 that you won't mobilize your army.
圣上遣我西来 The emperor sent me here
正是为了查明此事 to get to the bottom of all this!
吐蕃人也都听说了这个传言 The Tubos have also heard this rumor.
报 Reporting!
报中丞 Reporting, Governor
吐蕃大军已到峡谷中段 Tubo troops are halfway through the valley.
离此地一个半时辰 They're three hours away from here.
那白长安胡姬酒肆的那些人 Of the men at the Qujiang wine shop that day
贺知章王昌龄崔宗之都去世了 He Zhizhang, Wang Changling, Cui Zongzhi are dead.
活着的 Though still alive
杜甫流离四方 Du Fu wanders homeless,
王维 先被叛贼俘虏 and Wang Wei, imprisoned by the traitors,
苟延性命余生廖落 lingers on in desolation.
这根蜡烛 This candle
无论如何 whatever happens,
也是要灭了 will be extinguished.
这币上的血迹 The drops of blood on this bandage
只是半杯葡萄残酒 are just red wine dregs.
高中丞为何戏弄我 Why are you toying with me?
公公怨罪 I apologise, sir.
我们该去拿回云山城了 But it's time to take back Yunshan Fort.
拿我的枪来 Hand me my spear!
这是一条久已被人遗忘的旧道 This is a long-forgotten old road.
道路险峻大军不能通行 The steep path can't accommodate a large army.
却是条捷径 But it's a shortcut.
一个时辰 In two hours
我们就能直抵云山城下 we'll reach the walls of Yunshan.
我明白了 I understand.
高中丞今日在剑南 Today, here,
和哥舒翰当年在潼关 you face the same predicament
是一模一样的困境 as Geshu Han did at Tong Pass.
出或守都是败局 Whether you stay or go, you lose.
高中丞不出也不守 So you're doing neither.
反而退后一步 Instead, you're taking a step back
将吐蕃军诱入峡谷 to lure the Tubos into the narrow gorge -
再夺回云山城断了他们的后路 recovering Yunshan while cutting off their retreat.
方才那七万吐蕃军 Now those 70,000 Tubo soldiers
不得其路而出 have no escape route.
成了瓮中之鳖 They're like a turtle in an urn.
围困长安的那支吐蕃军 The Tubos besieging Chang'an
就该解围 will abandon the siege
掉头来救这只警了 to save this turtle.
高明 Brilliant.
可是高中永泸水关虽险 But Governor Gao, Lushui Pass may be risky.
毕竟只有区区六于守军 It's only held by 6,000 soldiers.
万一不能坚守 What if they can't defend it?
吐蕃大军 The Tubo Army -
吐蕃大军来了 The Tubo Army is coming!
公公考虑的是 You're right.
严武 But Yan Wu
现在应该已经到了泸水关 should be at Lushui Pass by now.
早前帐内来的是他的信使 The man who came here was his messenger.
严武还有他的两万精兵 Yan Wu and his 20,000 elite troops
我们约定的不是后日到 weren't really coming in two days
援军到了 The reinforcements are here!
而是 but
今日排晓 today at dawn.
佩服 My respect.
以严谨耿直闻名的高中永 Your Excellency is famous for being straightforward
却施展出了这么出神入化的诈术 and yet you pulled off this masterful ruse.
长安有救了 Chang'an will be saved.
程公公既然是高公公的门下高足 As Inspector Gao's top disciple
不必说定然武艺高强 you're of course a great martial artist too.
当年先天之变 That year of the rebellion
高公公一骑独破承天门的气概 Inspector Gao took on the enemy single-handed.
也一定传给了程公公 And you are his worthy successor!
高中丞 Governor Gao -
这激将法也太一目了然了吧 wouldn't such a provocation be too obvious?
城内有情况 There's trouble!
集合快集合 Assemble! Hurry!
来为了长安 This is for Chang'an!
长安 Chang'an!
列阵快列阵 Fall into formation!
高适你知道怎么才能骗过对手吗 Gao Shi - Do you know how to trick your opponent?
那得做好各种铺垫细节逼真 Create a detailed scenario so plausible
左看右看上看下看 that no matter how you view it
怎么看都是真的 it looks real.
连你自己都以为是真的 So real you even fool yourself.
公公严武年轻勇猛 Yan Wu is young, vigorous and brave.
这七万吐蕃军 These 70,000 Tubos
饥寒难当指目可破 are hungry, cold and will be easily beaten.
高中丞当然知道 Governor Gao knows of course
如此一来 that this plan
击破吐蕃将全是严武的功劳 means Yan Wu will get all credit for the victory.
就此别过 I take my leave.
高中永此次经过成都 Governor Gao, when I passed by Chengdu
我见到了杜甫 I saw Du Fu.
哦他一切都好 Oh, how is he?
很好 Very good.
他说 He said
多谢中丞在成都时的照看 to thank Your Excellency for looking after him there.
杜甫还说 Du Fu also said
当初郭子仪之所以出面救季白 that when Guo Ziyi acted to save Li Bai
其实是高中丞写信 it was because Your Excellency had written
向郭子仪悬请 to plead with him.
高中丞要救李白 You wanted to save Li Bai
却要转托郭子仪 but wanted Guo Ziyi to do it
是以免你和李白的旧情授人以柄 to prevent talk that you did it out of friendship -
反而害了李白 which would hurt Li Bai.
高中丞我猜的不错吧 Your Excellency, I guessed right, yes?
我还有李白的消息 I also have news of Li Bai.
什么 What?
年前先皇帝天叔天下 Before the New Year, the emperor announced an amnesty.
李白已获叔免了 Li Bai has been pardoned!
他遇叔后写的一首新诗 He wrote a new poem after his pardon.
我背下来了 I've memorized it.
朝辞白帝彩云间 Out from Baidi amongst the colored clouds
千里江陵一日还 A thousand miles to Jiangling in a day
两岸猿声啼不住 The monkeys chitter on the banks
轻舟已过万重山 My little boat passes by ten thousand peaks.
两岸猿声啼不住 The monkeys chitter on the banks
轻舟已过万重山 My little boat passes by ten thousand peaks.
高中丞从诗中可知 Your Excellency, you can tell from the poem
他心情不错 that he's in good spirits.
看来还不到夜郎 He hadn't reached his place of exile
刚到了白帝城他就遇救了 when, in Baidi, he got news of his pardon.
中丞准备好了我们就出发吧 Sir, we're ready to depart.
好 Okay.
这本集子里 In this collection,
你喜欢谁的诗啊 whose poems do you like?
那当然是中丞您的 Of course, yours.
少拍马屁 Cut the sweet talk.
还有谁 Who else?
崔景孟浩然王昌龄都好 Cui Hao, Meng Haoran, Wang Changling are all great!
岑参的也好 Cen Shen too.
王维王维的 Wang Wei - his poems
我读不太懂 are too hard for me to understand.
以后会读懂的 You'll understand them one day.
当然 Of course.
中永您不要见怪 Sir, don't think badly of me
我最喜欢的还是李白 but I like Li Bai's poems best.
长安一片月万户搞衣声 Chang'an in a flood of moonlight, ten thousand homely sounds
多好 So great.
对了中丞 By the way, sir -
杜甫的诗 why weren't Du Fu's poems
为什么没有收在这集子里呀 included in this collection?
杜甫的诗不好吗 Aren't they good enough?
好来别的集子里会收的 They'll appear in other anthologies.
有眼无珠 No taste!
不过您提到的这几篇黄鹤楼的诗 But all the Yellow Crane Tower poems
倒是都收进去了 are in the collection.
喉可惜 Such a pity -
黄鹤楼烧了没了 the tower was burnt and is no more.
不妨 It's okay.
只要那些黄鹤楼的诗在 So long as the Yellow Crane Tower poems exist
黄鹤楼就会在 Yellow Crane Tower is still with us.
去时三十万独自还长安 Of the three hundred thousand, only I returned to Chang'an.
谁的 Who's is that?
王昌龄 Wang Changling.
长安少年游侠客 A young soldier of Chang'an
夜上成楼看太白 mounts the ramparts to regard the Warrior Star
王维 Wang Wei!
二十解书剑西游长安城 At twenty, master of book and sword. I go to Chang'an
小鬼头这是我写的 Little devil, I wrote that!
遥望长安日不见长安人 Gazing from afar toward Chang'an; how I miss its people
李白 李太白 Li Bai! Li Taibai!
长安如梦里 何日是归期 Chang'an is like a dream; when might I return?
还是李白 That's Li Bai too!
长安呐 Chang'an -
只要诗在 so long as poetry exists
书在 and books exist,
长安就会在 Chang'an will still be with us.
在下李白 Li Bai, at your service.
在下高适 Gao Shi, at yours.
In winter, Li Bai passed away
In the second year of Emperor Daizong's reign,
Yan Wu defeated the 70,000 Tubo soldiers trapped in the gorge.
Guo Ziyi recovered Chang'an.
Gao Shi returned to Chang'an and was demoted.
But he was soon promoted to Imperial Advisor and made Marquis of Bohai.
Of all the Tang poets, he had the most distinguished record of service.
Two years later, Gao Shi died.
30,000 Miles From Chang'an
长安回望绣成堆 Gazing from Chang'an at brocaded peaks
山顶千门次第开 Doors fling open at the mountaintop retreat. (Du Mu)
浮生只合尊前老 Life is short, drink till you're old
雪满长安道 and snow blankets the streets of Chang'an. (Shu Dan)
花莓楼前雨露新 Before Calyx Hall the dew is fresh
长安城里太平人 The people of Chang'an are at peace. (Zhang Yue)
自古朱颜不再来 Time loosens beauty's hold
君不见外州客 Have you not seen our visitor
长安道一回来 回老 Each time he's here, he grows old. (Bai Juyi)
长安一片月 Chang'an in a flood of moonlight
万户捣衣声 Ten thousand homely sounds (Li Bai)
长安少年游侠客 A young soldier of Chang'an
夜上成楼看太白 mounts the ramparts to regard the Warrior Star (Wang Wei)
一为迁客去长沙 I was banished to far-off Changsha
西望长安不见家 My gaze strains westward towards Chang'an and home
黄鹤楼中吹玉笛 I play my melancholy flute in the Yellow Crane tower
江城五月落梅花 In spring plum blossoms rain down on River Town (Li Bai)