Chinese Poetry for My Daughter 给女儿的古诗课

Poetry Lessons for My Daughter | 给女儿的古诗课EP04: The Moon over the West River: Walking the Yellow Sand Road at Night | 第四课：西江月·夜行黄沙道中—Where Do We Turn When the World Wears Us Down? A bright moon. Startled magpies. The scent of rice blossoms, and a chorus of frogs speaking of a bountiful year. On a summer night eight centuries ago, a general who longed all his life to reclaim his l...

Poetry Lessons for My Daughter | 给女儿的古诗课EP03: Qingping Melody I | 第三课：清平调·其一—How Do Great Poets Describe Beauty? Clouds conjure her robes. Blossoms conjure her face. No eyes. No brows. Not a single feature described. And yet, a woman remembered as the greatest beauty of the Tang dynasty has lived in readers' imaginations for more than thirteen centuries. In this episode, we rea...

Poetry Lessons for My Daughter | 给女儿的古诗课EP02: Inscribed on the Farmhouse South of the City | 第二课：题都城南庄—A locked door. A peach tree still in bloom. And four lines that carried a stranger's memory for more than a thousand years. What if the most unforgettable love story is not the one that happened — but the one that almost did? In this episode, we read Cui Hu's 《题都城南庄》— perha...

Poetry Lessons for My Daughter | 给女儿的古诗课EP01: Mooring at Guazhou | 第一课：泊船瓜洲—It started with an ugly willow tree by the Seine. One glimpse, and a line came back to me — a poem I'd learned as a child, a thousand years old, suddenly alive again. I called my mum. She said: let's start there. In our first episode, we sit with Wang Anshi and 《泊船瓜洲》— a poem about leaving, loo...

A Chinese literature teacher and her Paris-based daughter return to classical Chinese poetry. Across distance and time, we turn to these lines—still speaking, still alive, one poem at a time. This is where we begin.— 《给女儿的古诗课》一位语文老师母亲和她身在海外的女儿，一起重新读古诗词。我是五月马 (May Ma)，成长辗转在不同语言与文化之间 🇨🇳🇯🇵🇺🇸🇫🇷，现居巴黎。离开母语二十年后，现在通过视频对话，跟着...