Jeen Ded Dokmai (; ), originally titled Inspiration from Reading Meng Haoran's Poem (), it is a Thai poem divided into four sections. It was written by Princess Sirindhorn in 1990 and translated into Chinese by Pei Xiaorui (), a Thai language professor at Peking University, in 1996.
Jeen Ded Dokmai was first included in translated by Princess Sirindhorn. The first paragraph is a translation of Meng Haoran's poem A Spring Morning (), and the last three paragraphs are poems written by the princess herself based on the style of the original. The last sentence is a blessing poem praising the friendship between China and Thailand, among which "The brotherhood between China and Thailand will last for thousands of years" (; ) is widely circulated.
Background Princess Sirindhorn wrote in a letter to a friend on July 26, 1987, that she saw the poem A Spring Morning on the wall when she visited a collection room of Chinese cultural relics in a museum in Australia but she didn't remember the city, and then translated the poem into Thai. Later, when the conductor of the Phatyarat Orchestra () asked Princess Sirindhorn to give her the Chinese-style Thai classical music Jeen Ded Dokmai, A Spring Morning became the first verse of Jeen Ded Dokmai.
Princess Sirindhorn then added three more lyrics after A Spring Morning to match the style of the lyrics of Jeen Ded Dokmai. She wrote, "All good flowers are good tools to express the soul, and the purpose of picking flowers is to give them to each other and enhance the friendship between China and Thailand." In early May 1990, Princess Sirindhorn completed the lyrics of Jeen Ded Dokmai. In 1996, Pei Xiaorui translated the last three verses of Jeen Ded Dokmai into Chinese.
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External links 泰语诗歌欣赏：採桃花 จีนเด็ดดอกไม้ (๒๕๓๐) - จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย Thai manuscript of Jeen Ded Dokmai handwritten by Sirindhorn Jeen Ded Dokmai from Yok Sai Ray Kham (page 11) Singing version Jeen Ded Dokmai Chinese version (Taiwanese Lukang tune) Jeen Ded Dokmai Thai version (Taiwanese Lukang tune)