"Ascending Stork Tower" Classical Chinese Poem | Learn Chinese Now

[@yihengxiao7545]

You have made a mistake while interpreting the third sentence "欲窮千里目". Here, the poet used a rhetorical device called "inverted sentence" to make it conform to rhythmics. Actually, the sentence in normal order should be "欲目窮千里", which means "desire to see as far as one can". Here, the character "目" is a verb means "to see", you cannot interpret it as a noun "eyes". Thanks for your enthusiasm to promote the Chinese culture.

[@douglasguarneri3635]

Hi Ben. I'am Doug, teaching Chinese calligraphy here in Paris,
please Ben, make more videos about Poetry. I'm recommending all your videos for
my students.
Congratulations Ben for your explanations, it is very clear. Very, very nice !
It is really Great ! And I love your pronunciation. Thank you very much indeed !

[@tonyromo5859]

I really love Chinese poems!
Not only they have excellent meaning, but also they sound quite beautiful.
I'd appreciate it if you would make more videos about Chinese poems, like this!

[@L.Spencer]

It amazes me that Chinese people still greatly value poems and cultural aspects from so long ago, so it's important to learn about these things. I still know very little about China but little by little I am learning more.

[@ArtesActes]

I'd very much like to see more Chinese poems, please! :-)

[@clay806]

The sun along the mountain bows;
The Yellow River seawards flows.
You will enjoy a grander sight
If you climb to a greater height.

[@ittehgapsytterb]

Excellent tutorial, very informative! Love all the trivia about the river changing course, the fire that burned down the original tower, the building of the new tower, etc. Thank you for posting!

[@alexmr1030]

Awesome! You don't know how much I impress friends with these little poems! Keep them coming.

[@Sim2500]

Excellent video, you should do more poetry, there isn't enough on youtube.
Your explanation, history and grasp of classical chinese is pretty good.

[@faridhamka8653]

Wo ai ni, Ben! Do more poetry please! Or a Chinese song like Deng Zhe Ni Hui Lai

[@mzmoon]

Definitely would like more! If you know the original pronunciation (or know some who does), it would be very cool to hear how the poem flows in its original as well. Thanks for the great content!

[@taichilo6331]

In life many solutions to a problem are usually very simple

[@phamdewestriver3623]

I still remember the poem from my primary school. It s beautiful...

[@mandarinandbeyond]

Thank you so much for the diligent and excellent work! Love it! Please share more! Always enjoy your program.

[@EllyTaliesinBingle]

I really love the way they place this poem in the world of Prey (2017.) Deeply symbolic and telling of what it's really about.

[@gracepassion77]

more of these please!

[@professorrshaldjianmorriso1474]

ditto! very helpful to students of classical poetry!

[@user-tf4eq3cj2b]

This is one of the best of Chinese poems!

[@knv9090]

Such a beautiful video. I think an interpretation of the poem as a whole, or a bit more about the poet, would be good. Unless, of course, the reader or listener is supposed to make up his own interpretation. I liked your comments about the drunken general who composed the poem about the frost-like moonlight.

[@zigzaggaming3955]

i got a lot of help from ur vedio in my chinese project

[@yzhang2008]

Great video! Very rare to find.

[@bittermelonisgoodfor]

Yes more please, both 詩 and 詞。 Thank you.

[@user-oc6wz3bq3l]

The first 2 sentence of the poem is S O/Adv V. Is is not the same as the Chinese S V O.
However, it does not mean that ancient Chinese is SOV, one of the reason of using SOV in the poem is to meet the tones of the poem. As you know, the poem in ancient China need to follow the tones.
The Chinese written in ancient is not completely the same｛Not the shape, but the meaning of the word｝, so even a Chinese can't understand all the ancient Chinese without translate to the Chinese using nowadays. So if you study Chinese, you usually have lessons for the ancient Chinese also.
This poem is written in Tong Dynasty, using ancient Chinese. Therefore, you still need to translate it into nowadays Chinese before reading.
This is just the additional information about the poem.
Actually it is incorrect to use the term Ancient Chinese, but better as Chinese in the form of writing using in ancient. The purpose is to use the least words to express the most meaning. So somehow a word have many different meaning in different usage, it is too difficult to learn so it was translated into the Chinese use nowadays. A 100words ancient Chinese is translated into Chinese nowadays with 800~1000 words, so you can think how difficult with ancient Chinese.
Chinese suck in ancient Chinese.
My advice is that you need to master Chinese before you go deep into poems.
Sorry for poor English.

[@mohitachaudhary4966]

Nyc poem and you explain this poem so beautifully😍

[@NiaRankin]

Thank you for this reading and explanation. It helped me immensely.

[@pawaniganga9073]

Thank you bro , really helpful ❤

[@pauleh1000]

Great video. Thank you. Please post more poems.

[@friendlybanjoatheist5464]

This is fantastic. thank you for posting these. More Tang stuff, please.

[@tramquangpho]

really like your poems videos, help me a lot, hope can see more videos about poems like this ..

[@indiachinaacademy]

佩服你大哥
我已经跟的我学生分享了这个视频。

[@MihaiKrieger]

登鸛雀樓
白日依山盡
黃河入海流
欲窮千里目
更上一層樓

[@jamesyu1093]

+Mihai Krieger PLAGIARISM!
Sorry, just joking lol

[@benhedgesvlogs]

+FierceDeity YuJam (James) Haha, great thing about ancient Chinese poetry: No copyright

[@Tsukuyomi28]

@@benhedgesvlogs copyright law is pretty new in Asia. They didn't seem to care much about who's work it was.

[@hannarosyda]

wonderful! Thank you

[@ginoskotheon3]

yes, more poems.

[@505douglasfahrenholz7]

All Tang Dynasty poetry was originally written in Hokkien, the language of modern day Min province in China and Taiwan (ROC).

[@nadeeshadilrukshi8129]

Thank you so much and this is realy helpfull...

[@Trisherboops]

awesome. more please

[@Peripatetic45]

Definitely more poetry, please.

[@sebasargent]

More poems please!

[@layalharb2472]

Yes more poems plz

[@squigoo]

id love to see you look at a poem by li qingzhao!! shes my favorate classical chinese poet. i really like her poem 小院閑窗春已深，重簾未捲影沈沈，倚樓無語理瑤琴，遠岫出山催薄暮，細風吹雨弄輕陰，梨花欲謝恐難禁

[@paarismann]

way cool - thank you - zai jian

[@xiao2zi349]

really enjoyed this. i would love to see more of it :)

[@peterbartley9777]

Well presented.

[@abduillahbajammal7435]

Definitely like more

[@alihosseini1177]

Hi Ben, A quick question!!! How did you practice Chinese characters and how many character you were learning each day? Thanks alot!

[@jiachengkang611]

Great video!

[@vincentzhang57]

I love your hairstyle,lol

[@mastervovan]

Thanks for this video, please more poetry ^^

[@Danetto]

More like this

[@michelleyeoh1599]

Could you do a similar translation for 登乐游园? Thanks!

[@svetlanajanardan6535]

Namaskaram!! Poem by Wen Tingyun late 812 AD. Tang Dynasty
Could you please read
Words from Chinese historical dorama
Zhan duan zing si Xin you Luan
gian thou wan Xu reng jiu Chan
..... So on
Thank you.

[@dounakesra7907]

Pliz bro , I 'd like more Chinese poem

[@xiaoyu3644]

YESS WE WANT MORE!!! THANKS XD

[@xtamaok4x]

Shifu master is that you?

[@TheDrakon]

More modern stuff please.

[@hemkusum554]

Could you please share the tonal rules of ping and ze as practiced in Chinese tang dynsty poems. Thanks.

[@jamesyu1093]

Ben is your camera capable of recording at sixty frames per second?

[@learnchinesenow]

+FierceDeity YuJam (James) We use the Sony EX 1 for the studio stuff. I record on 1080 p 29.97. That camera records 60p, but only at 720 resolution. Also there if no need to use 60 fps for just talking to a camera. All the other footage we use is stock footage

[@jamesyu1093]

+Learn Chinese Now the choice of music in this video is very good and reflects the calm tone and theme of the poem

[@lucasodum2185]

I noticed how the third character on the first line is also the word for you in shanghainese in simplified characters but it is pronounced yī instead of nóng, why so?

[@xuhan1981v]

+Lucas Odum 依 (人 + 衣) =\= 侬 （人 + 农）

[@alisonliu6929]

Sounds more rhythmic in Cantonese

[@kylethechild3942]

Isn't lóu the actual name for a story or floor, not céng?

[@taurantnguyen1664]

登鸛雀樓 Đăng quán tước lâu
Bạch nhật y san tận
Hoàng hà nhập hải lưu
Dục cùng thiên lí mục
Canh thượng nhất tằng lâu

[@icydragon68]

Can you speak it in Hakka? That's actually the most closely to old Chinese.

[@garfield267]

what's the word for poem?

[@susansu2791]

Ben = Your hair .............

[@sorg3ns]

Donald Trump? 😂😂😂

[@wareflorida]

reminds me of the infamous "Something About Mary" scene... maybe he was feeling nervous before tapping this video and took the same advice (j/k). Love your videos.

[@benhedgesvlogs]

+Ware Florida ah the hair gel scene. actually my hair ends up like this because I sleep on my front

[@finlaystead3334]

I thought that mu with the descending accent meant wood.

[@learnchinesenow]

+the way coolguy It does, but that is this character 木. Chinese has a lot of different characters, with the exact same pronunciation, but they have different meanings, the context lets you know which one it is.

[@paarismann]

maybe the lower level is where he understands what he sees, best; the higher level could be over his head - and not comprehensively viewable. Just a thought.

[@cr1us909]

i think u are an English person but ur voice looks really like a chinese

[@gracegrace3267]

is this mandarin or cantonese??

[@stefaniaogun9268]

Kez Grace i think it's Mandarin

[@chiuchiu48]

Mandarin

[@RoboFuryMan]

I wonder how thick that uni brow is after all this time lol

[@fleeks675]

영어와 중국어 2개를 동시에..공부하는건지 그냥 듣는건지..ㅋㅋ

[@ScarletDor]

一是多音字，你下面的注释不对

[@wonderfulmockingbird4660]

Chinese poem is so childish if not stupid. How could you see the farther by descending one layer?

[@benhedgesvlogs]

ascending not descending

[@originalideas9617]

+Ben Hedges The poem is neither view from specific perspective, nor reflex writer's creative inspiration. Basically, it repeat a fact even child know. "ascending one layer, see the farther". It's classic 流水账 and far from literature art.

[@learnchinesenow]

+五色兰德 What have you got against this poem? This is generally one of the poems taught in the beginning of a University level Classical Chinese course. There is a lot in it, including parallelism between characters in the two lines, examples of the use of 盡 and 窮 which is important to learn, you could write a couple of pages of analysis about this one poem. Could you perhaps tell us the title of a poem you think is better?

[@_cherly5097]

I'm positive Chinese poem is the most sophisticated poem on earth.

[@friendlybanjoatheist5464]

It actually says 'ascend one more floor", not "descend." You need to read more carefully before you post critical comments, ok?