Fir-Flower Tablets

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Excerpt from Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the ChineseOur plan of procedure was as follows: Mrs. Ayscough would first write out the poem in Chinese. Not in the Chinese characters, of course, but in transliteration. Op posits every word She put the various meanings of it which accorded with its place in the text, since I could not use a Chinese dictionary. She also gave the analyses of whatever Characters seemed to her to require it. The lines were carej fully indicated, and to these lines I have, as a rule adhered, the lines Of the translations usually corresponding, therefore, with the lines of the originals. In the few poems in which the ordering Of the lines has been Changed this has been done solely in the interest of.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.