Chinese Poetry 五言絕句 - 春曉 Spring Dawn

詩名: 春曉
shī míng: Chūn xiǎo
作者: 孟浩然
zuò zhě: mèng hào rán

 
春眠不覺曉
chūn mián bù jué xiǎo,
處處聞啼鳥
chù chù wén tíniǎo
夜來風雨聲
yè lái fēng yǔ shēng
花落知多少
huā luò zhī duō shǎo
 
Sleeping not knowing it’s morning
Birds are chirping everywhere
Sounds of rain and wind from last night
I wonder how many fallen flowers are there.
 
春曉：春天的早晨。
chūn xiǎo: Spring dawn
聞：聽見
wén: hear
啼鳥：鳥的啼叫聲。
tíniǎo: birds'chirping
知多少：不知有多少。
zhī duō shǎo: I dont know how much
 
You can tell from the first line that writer was sleeping in and didn’t know it was already in the morning. He was up because of birds singing here and there. Otherwise he probably was still in bed. He remembered the sounds of rain and wind from last night and then he wondered how much flowers was falling down on the ground. 

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