Ming poet Chen ZiLong 陈子龙 横云山石壁铭

Ming poet Chen ZiLong 陈子龙 横云山石壁铭

ISBN#978-7-5458-0126-2 Old Shanghai Travel Book with Poems and Newspaper Drawings

An Very Cute Old Book
ISBN#978-7-5458-0126-2 Old Shanghai Travel Book with Poems and Newspaper Drawings

There's a Chinese bookstore on Elizabeth St. in Chinatown NY. I often go dig up some good books there. On Sat I discovered a book written by a Qing Dynasty author, Old Shanghai Travel Guide Booklet (1st published 1876),  contain a poem and a newspaper drawing on each page, total 356 drawings, two Chinese poems depict Qing Opium dudes truly funny, load them up here for some laugh:)

Old Age

Old Age

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Mirror reflects presence and recalls our past

old age with grey hair is but a wrinkled coat

Am I this? Were I that? Our prime, a hologram

Gold satin has faded, becomes ashy bandage

Strip off the heavy shell and the dead skin

Life must embrace sunlight and Mother Earth

Nightbloom Cereus

Nightbloom Cereus

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Those years of mild sun rays and lucid dews

your seasons of tranquility among the blooms

last night, under the golden moonlight

your fragrant heart suddenly bloomed-

For whom? -and quickly faded into memory.