sòng líng chè (by Liu Changqing)
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| 送 | sòng | to deliver; to carry; to give (as a present); to present (with); to see off; to send |
| 靈 or 灵 | líng | alert; departed soul; efficacious; quick; effective; intelligence |
| 澈 | chè | clear (water); thorough |
| 蒼 or 苍 | cāng | dark blue; fly; musca; deep green |
| 蒼 or 苍 | cāng | dark blue; fly; musca; deep green |
| 竹 | zhú | bamboo |
| 林 | lín | woods; forest |
| 寺 | sì | Buddhist temple |
| 杳 | yǎo | dark and quiet; disappear |
| 杳 | yǎo | dark and quiet; disappear |
| 鐘 or 钟 | zhōng | clock; time as measured in hours and minutes; bell |
| 聲 or 声 | shēng | sound; voice; (a measure word, used for sounds); tone; noise |
| 晚 | wǎn | evening; night; late |
| 荷 | hé, hè | lotus; peppermint; to carry burden |
| 笠 | lì | bamboo rain hat |
| 帶 or 带 | dài | band; belt; girdle; ribbon; area; zone; region; wear; carry; lead; bring; consists of; show; and |
| 斜 | xié | slanting |
| 陽 or 阳 | yáng | positive (electric.); sun |
| 青 | qīng | 9th of month (tele.); blue-green |
| 山 | shān | mountain; hill |
| 獨 or 独 | dú | alone; independent; single; sole; only |
| 歸 or 归 | guī | to go back; to return |
| 遠 or 远 | yuǎn | far; distant; remote |
A soul seeks
the buddhist temple in a bamboo forest of darkest green.
Sounds of the dark night disappear,
as the lotus, like a bamboo rain-hat, protects the remote and solitary blue-green hill
from the slanting rays of the setting sun.
IW
Airborne blue contact! Radar at angels 10.
Dive! Dive! It's night time.
MAW
To carry quickly through the clear water
Under the deepest darkest blue, to the temple in the shade of the bamboo forest, where
Dark and quiet, time as measured in hours and minutes disappears into the sounds of the night,
With bamboo rain-hat to cover the lotus and girdle 'round the slanting rays of the sun;
The unripe mountain is alone, but too remote for him to return.
TDG
The conscientious message
Past a temple in the dark dark bamboo forest
dark and quiet until the bells chime midnight
Carrying his parcel, his hat slung on his belt
he returns alone to the distant green mountains.
LJW
The clear sound of the bell
From the dark depths of a bamboo grove
The temple's evening bell rings clear
A monk's bamboo hat catches the last rays of the sun
As he heads back to his green mountain home
DJW