往事越千年，
魏武挥鞭，
东临碣石有遗篇。
萧瑟秋风今又是，
换了人间。
Peitaiho
By Mao Tse-Tunq
DECEMBER 1959 ISSUE
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Peitaiho is a well-known summer resort south of the island Chinwangtao in Po Hai.
A rainstorm falls on this northern land,
White breakers leap to the sky.
Of the fishing boats from Chinwangtao
There is not one to be seen on all the ocean.
Where have they gone?
More than a thousand years in the past
The Emperor Wu of Wei, wielding his whip,
“ Eastwards journeyed” hither; his poem remains.
“The sad autumn wind is sighing” still today —
The world has changed !