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Cui Hu 崔護

poet · Tang China · 8th–9th century

A Tang official and poet. Six of his poems survive, and he is remembered for this one.

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Last year, on this day, inside this gate, a face and the peach blossoms shone red upon each other. Where that face has gone I do not know. The peach blossoms smile in the spring wind as before.

去年今日此門中,人面桃花相映紅。 人面不知何處在,桃花依舊笑春風。

"Written at a Village South of the Capital"

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