Poetry
Yang wrote poems to express her loneliness and her longing for Mao. One of them, "偶感" ("Occasional Feeling"), was written in October 1928, two years before her death, and discovered when her former residence was being repaired about 50 years later:
Original Chinese | Pinyin | English Translation |
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天阴起溯风,浓寒入肌骨。 |
Tiān yīn qǐ sù fēng, nóng hán rù jī gǔ. |
It is cloudy and very windy; the severe coldness invades my body. |
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