Beidaihe

A rainstorm sweeps down on the northern land,

White breakers leap to the sky.

No fishing boats off Qinhuangdao

Are seen on the boundless ocean.

Where are they gone?

Nearly two thousand years ago

Wielding his whip, the Emperor Weiwu

Rode eastward to Jieshi; his poem survives.

Today the autumn wind still sighs,

But the world has changed!