One Thought, a Mortal Life · Stubborn and Foolish by Nature · 04 / 102
· A Knot to Retie in the Next Life
Tracing every regret, I let none escape; I rack my mind over the Biluo Stele. Another season begins — early on the road, east and west. In the end, returned to the , tempered clean and white by ice and fire.
Those who cheat the world fear the gifted; the gifted fear the world's cheating. Left alone again — crows cry over the Yi River. Six years searching the wide , I still cannot see through the stolen new clothes.
Glossary—
The Biluo Stele: in Longxing Temple within the town of Xinjiang County, Shanxi. It writes oracle-bone script, bronze-vessel script and stone-drum script with the brushwork of small seal script; later generations find it hard to read, and it is a treasure in the history of Chinese calligraphy;
The Yi River: the name of a river. When Jing Ke went into Qin to assassinate the King of Qin, Crown Prince Dan of Yan held his farewell feast here.
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