051 李頎 聽安萬善吹觱篥歌 translation: Listening to An Wanshan Play a Bamboo Pipe Song, by Lǐ Qí

This is a translation and annotation of the poem 聽安萬善吹觱篥歌 (Tīng Ān Wànshàn Chuī Bìlì Gē), “Listening to An Wanshan Play a Bamboo Pipe Song”, by the Tang dynasty poet 李頎 (Lǐ Qí). The poem is #051 in the collection 300 Tang Poems. 歌 in the title probably refers to the music that 安萬善 is playing, but it could instead refer to the poem itself. Many other poems in the collection use 歌 as a label for the…