SteleForest: bilingual Chinese texts

Welcome to Stele Forest! Here you will find some classical chinese texts, displayed in a pretty bilingual Chinese-English format. You can even add your own texts!

Here is a small selection of texts (you can see all texts here).

• A Cicada - Li Shangyin Read

  本以高難飽，
  徒勞恨費聲 ...

  Pure of heart and therefore hungry,
  All night long you have sung in ...

• Toward the Temple of Heaped Fragrance - Wang Wei Read

  不知香積寺，
  數里入雲峰 ...

  Not knowing the way to the Temple of Heaped Fragrance,
  Under miles of ...

• On a Moonlight Night - Du Fu Read

  今夜鄜州月，
  閨中只獨看 ...

  Far off in Fuzhou she is watching the moonlight,
  Watching it alone from ...

• Drinking Alone with the Moon - Li Bai Read

  花間一壺酒，
  獨酌無相親 ...

  From a pot of wine among the flowers
  I drank alone. There was ...

• A Spring Morning - Meng Haoran Read

  春眠不覺曉，
  處處聞啼鳥 ...

  I awake light-hearted this morning of spring,
  Everywhere round me the singing of ...

• Drinking Wine - Tao Yuanming Read

  结庐在人境，
  而无车马喧 ...

  I made my home amidst this human bustle,
  Yet I hear no clamour ...

• The Yellow Crane Terrace - Cui Hao Read

  昔人已乘黃鶴去，
  此地空餘黃鶴樓 ...

  Where long ago a yellow crane bore a sage to heaven,
  Nothing is ...