Chinese poem illustration: 汉江临泛/汉江临眺 Cruise on Han River by Wang Wei

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A Chinese style painting is a hard job, to represent a video clip by a poem is a mission impossible.

Yet Wang Wei did it and make this poem a masterpiece with his typical signature: You read out pictures from the sentences, you see the poems from his paintings(诗中有画, 画中有诗). With this poem, Wang Wei made it to the utmost level, you feel like watching a video from a poem.

汉江临泛 / 汉江临眺
王维

楚塞三湘接,荆门九派通。
江流天地外,山色有无中。


郡邑浮前浦,波澜动远空。
襄阳好风日,留醉与山翁。

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