[ intro for the SONG OF ENDLESS SORROW ] 長恨歌之前

Before i start the illustration posts for "Song Of Endless Sorrow",i thought i might introduce the background of it a little bit. The poem "Song Of Endless Sorrow" was written by the great Chinese poet Ju-Yi Bai (i found a picture of him from google!) in the year 806 ( it was also the Tang Dynasty of China ). Bai once visited a temple with his friends and was inspired by the local tale of the tragic love story between the emperor and the princess ( which was a total real event!) so he wrote this famous masterpiece. ( this story in China is so famous that it can rank with Mulan for sure.)

For this poem is written in extremely beautiful Chinese, i have no intention to translate it into English for sure,(besides it really is behind my ability to do that!) so i decide to rewrite the story based on the poem.(but i will try to keep the original spirit of the story.) so the English story you read here is done by me based on the poem. i think it will be more like a picture book story,for i am not a great English writer. ( as you can tell by now from reading this,i don't even speak perfect English!) but if this series of work inspires you to look for the real original poem,or gives you the interests to learn more about the story or anything,then it will be my pleasure. besides i just started so i have no idea how this will turn out. but for sure i hope i can finish it and i hope you will like it :)

so far i will post about this series in this blog,so be sure to come back and check it out ,it will all be under the tag for "Sorrowsong長恨歌",so if you click it you can see all of them together,because of the blog form,the latest one will be the first post so you have to read it backward if you want to read it from the start. but in the future i might put them in order in another blog or space. enjoy it :)

今天起這裡所刊載的故事並不是來自白居易長恨歌的直接翻譯，而是我根據這首詩寫下的圖畫故事，不過如果能激發你的興趣去多瞭解這首美麗的傑作也會是件很棒的事！目前我先把這個作品發表在這個地方，所以如果想要看到目前的全部，需要點選Sorrowsong長恨歌這個標籤，而順序將會從最新到一開始，我希望以後可以有一個專門的網頁或是另一個空間來放這個作品。對於我們華人來說，楊貴妃的故事耳熟能詳，想把這個故事畫出來已經在我心裡頭醞釀很久，雖然我覺得我自己不見得已經準備好了，但是還是希望可以給自己一個目標試試看。我自己都覺得很期待呢。現在新裡面一直想著要怎麼畫安祿山呢？一定會變得很搞笑吧+_+。