Mei Yaochen Index


Mei Yaochen is best known for writing of ordinary life, and using correspondingly ordinary, "unliterary", language. He also wrote several poems mourning the deaths of his wife and children.
Each poem indexed below appears in characters, pinyin, and literal and literary English translation; alternatively, the English translations are collected on one page here.
A Rural Home
Mourning Loss
Sacrifice to the Cat that Scared all the Rats
Sad Remembrance
Staying Overnight with Xie Shihou in the Xu Family Library and Being Bothered By Hearing Rats
Writing of My Sorrow

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