七步诗 – SEVEN STEPS VERSE

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豆燃豆萁,

Lighting the bean stalk to boil the beans,

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豆在釜中泣。

and of this the beans thus wailed:

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本自同根生,

“Borne are we of the same root;

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相煎何太急

should you now burn me with such disregard?” 

Written by 曹植 (Cáozhí) 

Created during the Three Kingdoms period (220 – 280 AD)

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