Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠
playwright · Yuan China · 1250?–1321?
A playwright of the Yuan, most widely remembered for this short song of twenty-eight characters.
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late 13th century
A withered vine, an old tree, crows at dusk. A small bridge, flowing water, a house. An ancient road, the west wind, a lean horse. The evening sun goes down in the west, and a heartbroken man is at the end of the world.
枯藤老樹昏鴉，小橋流水人家，古道西風瘦馬。
夕陽西下，斷腸人在天涯。To the tune "Sky-Clear Sand": autumn thoughts
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