天问（屈原）(之二)

        明明暗暗，
        惟时何为？
        阴阳三合，
        何本何化？
        圜则九重，
        孰营度之？
        惟兹何功，
        孰初作之？
    Asking Heaven (2) (QuYuan)

Days alternated nights as the same as the dark alternated light

For the celestial and terrestrial, where was the stream of time, divided ？

Talking about “Yin “” Yang”, how darkness ate up by light

And the reflection with the form accorded?

There were the certain--measures of the Nine-layers of Heaven

Who could have done it?

With the boundary unlimited there were the arches

Who made and held it?

  Translation from the Chinese by jinsheng