(傳)趙伯駒《江山秋色圖》(畫心全段) 南宋 絹本青綠設色 55.6 × 323.2 cm 北京故宮博物院藏Attributed to Zhao Boju (c. 1120–c. 1170), Autumn Colours over Rivers and Mountains, painted portion entire. Southern Song. Handscroll, ink and colour on silk, 55.6 × 323.2 cm. The Palace Museum, Beijing.Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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作品The Book
本頁介紹已出版的中文詩文集;英文選譯可在作品選讀中閱讀。This page presents the Chinese-language collection. Selected English translations are available in the reading section.
The first book by the Chinese-Canadian poet and writer Wén Rèn — the distilled work of his richest years. It gathers two poetry collections, Beyond a Thousand Mountains and Airs of the States Within, and the prose collection Journey South: the author sensing and singing his way through his Chinese homeland and life in Europe and America, refining a life into verse. Part one tastes “the song of the benevolent”; part two recalls a thousand years of scholarly integrity; part three reads as an “enlightenment” for the young. In plain, sincere, unadorned prose, he carries a deep inner world — and finds a wide echo.
展開 · 全書目次(臺灣中華書局版)Full table of contents (Zhonghua, Taipei)
Hsu Chih-yuan — former member of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China, and a juror in classical poetry and calligraphy for the Ministry of Education’s national literary awards — wrote the preface to Beyond a Thousand Mountains and brushed the title on its cover, and came to the Toronto launch in August 2024 in his ninetieth year. In the summer of 2025 he composed a quatrain for the author and brushed it himself. This is a classic expression of the traditional Chinese scholar-intellectual: cultivated ingenuity joined to a deeply felt act of trust.
塵世苦辛未許違,扶輪策杖掩重扉。 河山所歷無情水,只有劉郎識路歸。
The bitterness of this world does not permit escape. / Leaning on a wheelchair, propped on a cane, I have closed the double doors. / Of all the rivers and mountains you have passed, the water was without feeling — and only Liu knows the road home.
The first line establishes the poem’s ethical ground: the suffering of the human world is not a reason to withdraw from it. “Does not permit escape” means that hardship does not release one from obligation. The second line is about himself: leaning on a wheelchair, propped on a cane, he has closed the double doors — a man of ninety saying he no longer goes out, and not one of the seven characters pities itself. The third turns outward to the one who receives the poem: of all the rivers and mountains you have crossed, the water was without feeling. The last line borrows Liu Yuxi’s “Liu of former days returns again” — and the recipient is himself surnamed Liu, allusion and surname laid one upon the other. He closes the doors, but the road does not end; the three characters 識路歸—“to know the road home”—become a spiritual charge entrusted to those who follow.
贈詩手迹 乙巳夏 鈐印三方The poem in the poet’s own hand, summer 2025; three seals.先生與作者 於多倫多寓所With the author at his home in Toronto.先生與作者 談笑之際A moment of laughter.一九五八年 蔣經國(左三)於救國團「歲寒三友」開幕致詞,先生(左二)任紀錄1958: Chiang Ching-kuo (third from left) at a China Youth Corps opening; Hsu Chih-yuan (second from left) kept the record.
二〇二四年八月二十五日,《千山獨行》新書發布會暨「掌心詩詞藝術文化沙龍」原創作品展,在多倫多 North York Central 禮堂隆重舉行。九十高齡的許之遠先生作序並題寫書名;現場朗誦《廬山謠》、訪談對話,掌心同仁的詩、書、畫與新詩刊《螢火》一併展出,群賢畢至。紅楓影視全程錄製。
On August 25, 2024, the launch of Beyond a Thousand Mountains — with the Palm Poetry Society Salon’s exhibition of original work — was held at the North York Central Auditorium in Toronto. Mr. Xu Zhiyuan, then ninety, wrote the preface and brushed the title; poems were recited, interviews held, and the members’ work and the journal Fireflies shown. Red Maple Movies filmed the event.
2024年8月25日 13:00–16:00 · 多倫多 North York Central Auditorium
Aug 25, 2024, 1:00–4:00 pm · North York Central Auditorium, Toronto