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[2] Scene from the Chang Hen Ge, depicting Emperor Xuanzong (center) and his concubines. Japanese painting by Kanō Sansetsu (1590–1651). Painter Li Yishi (李毅士, 1886–1942) illustrated the poem with a series of thirty paintings. [3] In classical music the poem has been set as a cantata by Huang Zi (1933) and as an orchestral song by Mo ...
Chang hen ge may refer to: Chang hen ge (poem), an 809 Chinese poem by Bai Juyi about the love and death of Yang Yuhuan; The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, a 1995 Chinese novel by Wang Anyi, about a Shanghai woman's life in the 20th century Everlasting Regret, a 2005 Hong Kong film based on Wang's novel
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One of the earliest references to qualities later associated with the canonical Four Great Beauties appears in the Zhuangzi.In one chapter, the women Mao Qiang and Lady Li are described as "great beauties" who "when fish see them they dart into the depths, when birds see them they soar into the skies, when deer see them they bolt away without looking back".
Kukai makes the acquaintance of Bai Letian the poet whose major work is "Chang hen ge" - Song of Everlasting Sorrow (長恨歌)- the story about the life of the Emperor's favorite concubine Yang Guifei. The commander's wife has lapsed into a coma. When Kukai and Bai Letian investigate they see an visage of Chunqin on the roof reciting a poem.
Jiān/biyiniao (鶼/比翼鸟): a mythical bird with two heads, one male, one female. They have only one pair of wings, and they are inseparable. In the poem Chang Hen Ge(长恨歌), the emperor mourns for his dead lover, and states that he would be a biyiniao and stay with her forever. Jiguang (吉光; jíguāng)
Bai Juyi (also Bo Juyi or Po Chü-i; Chinese: 白居易; 772–846), courtesy name Letian (樂天), was a Chinese musician, poet, and politician during the Tang dynasty.Many of his poems concern his career or observations made about everyday life, including as governor of three different provinces.
Chang hen ge zhuan tells the love story between the Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei and their respective ends—when they flee from the rebellion, the emperor is forced to sentence Yang to death at Mawei Courier Station; after the rebellion is suppressed, the emperor is also forced to abdicate. In the end of the story the emperor meets Yang ...