咏鹅 💧 Ode to Goose

[kirchara]

鹅，鹅，鹅，
é ，é ，é ，
曲项向天歌。
qǔ xiàng xiàng tiān gē 。
白毛浮绿水，
bái máo fú lǜ shuǐ ，
红掌拨清波。
hóng zhǎng bō qīng bō 。


（唐）骆宾王
(Táng) Luò Bīn wáng

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Did you know that Luo Binwang (640-684, Tang poet) wrote "Ode to Goose" when he was seven years old?

This is poem #1 in our 300 Tang Poems for Children book. 静夜思 (床前明月光 etc.) is poem #76.

Written in Tonally Orthographic Pinyin here on Instagram.

Comments

[kirchara]

This poem is still too advanced for my kids, since they haven't even learned 天 (sky) and 毛 (feathers, hair, fur) yet.

This reminds me that I should read English poems with Brooks. At six years old, River memorized several English poems, including: Christina Rosetti's "Caterpillar," R. L. Stevenson's "Whole Duty of Children," and Dennis Lee's "Skyscraper." Of course unlike Brooks, River was not taking piano and Mandarin lessons in kindergarten/first grade.