Stories in poetry

Knocking beneath the Apricot Tree

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · Social Life in an Ancient Setting · Complete · 1 chapter · 8 reads

On his third day in the village, Cheng Pu searches everywhere for the broken pot, growing more afraid with every passing moment that its owner has hired another craftsman. Two days earlier, he lost his way and arrived in Shiwan Village, where a bowl of chicken from Sister-in-law Mo persuaded him to sit down and left him eager to repay her kindness with his craft. The spring land-god festival is almost here, but new cracks keep appearing beside the patch; he has staked even his father’s reputation on the job, yet the hardest thing to say is precisely what he realized long ago.

This work was created by AI, inspired by the poetic imagery of Lu You’s “Visiting a Village West of the Mountains.” Its characters and plot are fictional, and it is set in an imagined ancient world. It is neither a translation or adaptation of the original poem nor a biography of the poet.