周邦彦西河·大石金陵英译
ZHOU Bangyan – Lyrics to the Melody of the West River (In remembrance of bygone eras at Jinling)In this prosperous region, who remembers the South's grand eras?Mountains and fields of the countryside and the winding YangtzeSurround and build up away from the city.Raging billows like loneliness towards a solitary castle heave,On the distant horizon navigate sails and masts of ships.Off the precipice rugged trees overhang still,Who still comes here to secure the boat of a gent who never worried?All that remains on a historic site is sentimentality.And fog has come to one half of a castle conceal.Deep in the night, over the parapet the moon shines,In grief I look towards the east where pass the waters of River Huai.What a flourishing city full of wine vendors' pennants and operatic drumming!Faint is the memory of the Wangs, the Xies and their neighbourhoods,Swallows have come and gone for generations that all have lost count of.There are now ordinary people along the same streets and alleyways,Telling tales of the rise and fall of former times in the setting sun.周邦彦简介
周邦彦（1056─1121）字美成，自号清真居士，钱塘（今浙江杭州）人。周早年「疏隽少检，不为州里推重，而博涉百家之书」。元丰初，「游太学，有俊声」。神宗时擢为试太学正。元四年（1089）出为庐州（今安徽合肥）教授。绍圣四年（1097）还朝，任国子主簿。徽宗即位，改除校书郎，历考功员外郎，卫尉宗正少卿兼议礼局检讨。政和二年（1112），出知隆德府（今山西长治）。六年，自明州（今浙江宁波）任入秘书监，进徽猷阁待制，提举大晟府。宣和二年（1120）移知处州（今浙江丽水），值方腊起义，道梗不赴。未几罢官，提举南京鸿庆宫，辗转避居于钱塘、扬州、睦州（今浙江建德）。卒年六十六。《宋史》、《东都事略》与《咸淳临安志》均有传。《宋史·艺文志》著录其《清真居士集》十一卷，已佚。清人厉鹗《宋诗纪事》辑得其佚诗六首，今人罗忼烈又辑得古近体诗三十四首。周邦彦「负一代词名」（张炎《词源》卷下），其词「浑厚和雅」（《词源》），「缜密典丽」（刘肃《陈元龙集注〈片玉集〉序》，对后世影响较大。