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The Xin’an Officer · Three Officers Narrative

新安吏 · 三吏叙事版

2026-09-14 · 6:12

A muster, a door at night and a pass bring the separation in old poems close to the present.

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From Xin’an to Tong Pass, remember the people.

Mandarin classical-poem narrative direction · baritone, erhu and guqin

Although titled The Xin’an Officer, this public source places sections of Du Fu’s Xin’an Officer, Shihao Officer and Tong Pass Officer in sequence, with new travelling passages. Mothers seeing sons off, a solitary traveller and an infant bring war back to particular lives; this is not a standalone setting of only one poem.

The 62 BPM Chinese cinematic-narrative brief proposes warm baritone, erhu, guqin, low strings and sparse distant drum. The public prompt retains pronunciation cues and textual variants; it is not presented as a critically edited classical text or a word-for-word recording transcript. Arrangement cues are not listening findings.

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[Intro - A road through wartime] 一条路从新安到潼关 尘土里都是离散人间 诗人把所见写成三篇 千年之后仍听见哭喊 [Original I - 新安吏完整连续] 客行新安道,喧呼闻点兵 借问新安吏,县小 gèng 无丁 府帖昨夜下,次选中男 xíng 中男绝短小,何以守王城 肥男有母送,瘦男独 líng pīng 白水暮东流,青山犹哭声 莫自使眼枯,收汝泪纵横 眼枯即见骨,天地终无情 我军取 xiāng 州,日夕望其平 岂意贼难料,归军星散营 就粮近故 lěi ,练卒依旧京 掘 háo 不到水,牧马役亦轻 况 nǎi 王师顺,抚养甚分明 送行勿泣血, pú yè 如父兄 [Interlude - Toward Shihau village] 暮色落下石壕村 夜里脚步叩开门 [Original II - 石壕吏完整连续] 暮投石 háo 村,有吏夜捉人 老翁 yú 墙走,老妇出门看 吏呼一何怒,妇啼一何苦 听妇前致词:三男 yè 城 shù 一男附书至,二男新战死 存者且偷生,死者长已矣 室中 gèng 无人,惟有乳下孙 有孙母未去,出入无完裙 老 yù 力虽衰,请从吏夜归 急应河阳役,犹得备晨炊 夜久语声绝,如闻泣幽 yè 天明登前途,独与老翁别 [Interlude - Toward Tong Pass] 天明又向潼关去 城墙横在战云间 [Original III - 潼关吏完整连续] 士卒何草草,筑城潼关道 大城铁不如,小城万丈余 借问潼关吏:修关 海 备胡 要我下马行, wèi 我指山 yú 连云列战格,飞鸟不能 yú 胡来但自守,岂复忧西都 丈人视要处,窄狭容单车 艰难奋长 jǐ ,万古用一夫 哀哉桃林战,百万化 wéi 鱼 请 zhǔ 防关将,慎勿学哥舒 [Outro - Remember the people] 三篇诗不是旧梦 人间苦难不可忘

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