Du lao zi 讀老子

by Bai Juyi 白居易 (772–846)

Dynasty: Tang 唐 (618–907)

Year of creation: 834

Notes: See also: Zhu Jincheng 朱金城, Bai Juyi ji jian jiao 白居易集箋校 ( Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2008), 32.2172.

Included in: Peng Dingqiu 彭定求 (ed.). Quan Tang shi 全唐詩 (Complete Tang Poems) Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1985. 455.5150.

Translations

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言者不如知者默,此語吾聞於老君。 若道老君是知者,緣何自著五千文。