Transcript Seven Pace Song

Seven Pace Song
By Ellie Braun
Seven Pace Song
煮豆燃豆萁
豆在釜中泣
本是同根生
相剪何太急
Written by Cao Zhi
Cao Zhi
Lived from 192-232
Was a prince of the state
of Cao Wei
His poetry revered during
the Jin Dynasty
His poetry was known as
the Jian’an style
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Character Translation
著-the
豆-beans
燃-burn
其-its
在-in at on
釜-kettle
中-china
泣-weep
本-this
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是-is
同-with
跟-root
生-student
相-phase
剪-scissors
何-what
太-too
急-urgent
History Setting of Poem
• Poem was popular during Jin Dynasty
• Brief period of unity of China during Jin
Dynasty
• Jin later suffered from civil war- War of Eight
Princes
• Capital and emperor captured
Background Story of Poem
Cao Zhi was a prince who hated seeing his
people fight each other in the civil war. To
express his anger, he wrote this poem to let
the people know that they all come from the
same place. He wanted to tell them they
shouldn’t be fighting and should find peace with
each other.
English Translation
Boil bean burn bean stalk
Bean in pan in cry
Actually from same root grow
Mutual boil why so fast Boiling beans burns the
beanstalk,
Beans inside the pan cry:
We're both grown from one root,
Why so fast to boil each other?
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Sources
Images:
Google Images
Information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cao_Zhi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_Dynasty_(265420)