Yet another expressive phrase ... majestic mountains, lofty peaks; trees and bamboos in their stupendous growth ... all these in the likes of an awesome arcadia. Where can one find such tranquility?

Could this be part of a couplet? If so, what is the antithetical distich?

Going by the rules as Guru Glotynn has mentioned previously, the phrase seems to be the second part of a couplet (if it is the compose of a couplet at all), as the ending word 竹is in the first phonetic tone.

Over to our pool of experts.

(FYI)
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Preface_to_the_Poems_Composed_at_the_Orchid_Pavilion

Hi Futari

Thanks for the link. Indeed an excellent poetry.

Hi, Chinese-lover Geoette,

Here are more 蘭亭名聯 for your perusal. : )

http://big5.chinabroadcast.cn/gate/big5/gb.cri.cn/3601/2005/08/29/[email protected]

Hello Futari.

Thanks again ... very thoughtful of you.

Cheers!

Beautiful poem by Wang Xizhi, a sagacious calligrapher of his era.

The phrase ”崇山峻嶺茂林脩竹”, drawn on the poem’s first stanza is an expression of mother’s nature.

While waiting for a response from a friend’s friend who is a professor in Chinese language, lecturing at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, I would like to give it a crack, and provide the ‘opposing’ phrase with relevance to my family’s business. Here it is:-

園地清溪綠葉香茗

I look forward to constructive opinions.

TO: Futari >>>> The links you posted were helpful.

TO: Glotynn >>> Your valuable and learned comments will be greatly
appreciated.

Thank you!

i am trying it blindly.

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Hi openH2O ...

Got it! It's from part of the poem ...

此地有崇山峻領，茂林修竹，又有清流激湍，映帶左右。

引以為流觴曲水，列坐其次；雖無絲竹管弦之盛，一觴一詠，

亦足以暢敘幽情。

Thanks!

不好意思。
i just copy it cause i cant create any sentences to echo the first one. Unlikes u. u r marvelous.

Hello All Enthusiasts

Here it comes!

The following ‘match’ is provided by a friend’s friend; an associate professor of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Division of Chinese Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

崇山峻嶺茂林脩竹 晨煙暮霭春照秋陰

The lecturer says that his match was thought out on the basis of balancing the descriptive scene of the ‘high mountains and lofty peaks garbed with exuberant growth of trees and bamboos’.

He also says that his isn’t a perfect match in accordance with the rules of couplets (echoing Glotynn’s standpoint on tones etc.), but merely trying to harmonize the phrase by ‘touching-up’ mother’s nature with joie de vivre at dawn and sunset, and the ambience of spring and autumn.

He adds that Wang Xizhi was a master of poetry of all times; and that Wang’s works are consequential to the many idioms we use today.

It is no wonder that the philosophy of one century is the common knowledge of the next!