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自誇詡龜鷺罹災唱道情韓湘動眾

自夸诩龟鹭罹灾唱道情韩湘动众

Chapter Ten · The Story of Han Xiangzi

Boasting of themselves, a tortoise and an egret come to grief;Singing Daoist songs, Han Xiang stirs up the crowd

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a market street, a laughing ragged Daoist with a drum under his arm and clappers in his hand sings and dances, while a bearded man holds out a cup of wine, an old woman offers a plate of cakes, a porter claps, and a small boy eats a cake at his feet.

得逍遙處且逍遙,不學人間兩路跑。

得逍遥处且逍遥,不学人间两路跑。

Where you can be free and easy, be free and easy;don’t be like the world, chasing down two roads at once.

趕得東時西已失,未曾南向北先拋。

赶得东时西已失,未曾南向北先抛。

Run after the east, and the west is already lost;before you have even turned south, you have thrown the north away.

莊生曳尾輕人爵,列子乘風重草茅。

庄生曳尾轻人爵,列子乘风重草茅。

Master Zhuang, trailing his tail in the mud, made light of the ranks men give;Liezi, riding the wind, set store by grass and thatch.

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