{"id":2719,"date":"2011-01-03T22:14:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T22:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2011-01-03T22:14:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T22:14:29","slug":"poem-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/poem-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shi Tao (c. 1642-1707) was an artist, poet and scholar born into a high aristocratic family during the last days of the Ming Dynasty.\u00a0 After the overthrow of the Ming in 1644 and the establishment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Shi Tao was raised and lived initially as a Buddhist monk. This poem is #4 from an illustrated album of 12 poems and paintings, 6 landscapes and 6 flowers, called <em>Returning Home<\/em>, published in 1695.\u00a0 The brush styles of the calligraphy and the paintings match the mood of the respective poems in a superb fusion of text, image and idea.\u00a0 Orchids are associated with &#8220;virtuous gentlemen&#8221; in Chinese literature, and with the friendship between them.\u00a0 The last lines of the poem allude to the difficult political times in which the poem was written.\u00a0 Clicking on the image will reveal the brambles Shi Tao has placed amidst the orchids.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ShiTao-ReturningHome-Leaf-4-Orchids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2720\" title=\"ShiTao-ReturningHome-Leaf-4-Orchids\" src=\"https:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ShiTao-ReturningHome-Leaf-4-Orchids-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Orchids<br \/>\nWords from a sympathetic heart<br \/>\nAre as fragrant as orchids;<br \/>\nLike orchids in feeling,<br \/>\nThey are agreeable and always joyous;<br \/>\nYou should wear these orchids<br \/>\nTo protect yourself from the spring chill;<br \/>\nWhen the spring winds are cold,<br \/>\nWho can say you are safe?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Reference:<\/em><br \/>\nWen Fong [1976]:<em> Returning Home.  Tao-Chi&#8217;s Album of Landscapes and Flowers<\/em>.  New York, NY, USA: George Braziller.\u00a0 The translation is due to Wen Fong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shi Tao (c. 1642-1707) was an artist, poet and scholar born into a high aristocratic family during the last days of the Ming Dynasty.\u00a0 After the overthrow of the Ming in 1644 and the establishment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Shi Tao was raised and lived initially as a Buddhist monk. This poem is #4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-poetry","p1","y2011","m01","d03","h22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}