A separate letter welcoming his journey at Chuzhou, the second迎楚州行李別紙
Gyewon Pilgyeongjip (A Plowing of the Brush in the Cassia Garden) 桂苑筆耕集 · Choe Chiwon · 886 (Tang, 6th year of the Zhonghe era · Silla, 12th year of King Heongang) · 1 passages · 160 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 min
Gyewon Pilgyeongjip (A Plowing of the Brush in the Cassia Garden) Book 19 — Reports and Enclosures A collection Choe Chiwon made by choosing out of the writings of his four years in the headquarters of Gao Pian, military commissioner of Huainan under the Tang, binding them into twenty volumes and presenting them to King Heongang of Silla in 886. It holds 366 pieces — memorials and reports sent up to the emperor, the proclamation denouncing Huang Chao, letters to the several military commissioners, orders and dispatches issued to those under him, Daoist and Buddhist texts for services, funeral offerings, records written for the outer wall of Chengdu and for a painting of Annam, and the reports and poems he sent up to Gao Pian. Here is the first report, which begins "I am a man of Silla," and the proclamation against Huang Chao with its line, "Not only do all the men of the world think to kill you openly; the ghosts under the earth have already discussed cutting you down in secret." The last volume holds the poems he made on the voyage home to the country he had left at twelve. It is the oldest collection by a Korean that survives, and when Hong Seokju and Seo Yugu printed it with movable type in 1834 they called it "the root and the beginning of the writing of our Eastern Country." Their two prefaces are translated with it.
1Waiting to meet the crane carriage and call at the dragon pavilion
I submit this. On a certain day of this month your special messenger arrived. I received your gracious kindness, and you sent down your honored instruction. Kneeling to read it, my humble heart could not bear its gladness and its clapping. I learn that you, Minister, are going far to the court of Heaven and will follow the water road. You set the orchid oar in order and think of Guo Tai. You point toward the Cassia Garden and call on Liu An. When they see an immortal, all Chu is startled in its customs. When they hear the Odes and the Hymns, the scholars of Lu congratulate one another. How much more for me, whose stuff is truly put to shame by the arrowwood shaft, though my traces were once ranged on Penglai. Leaning on your gate of virtue, I have been able to lodge at the marquis's office. Now I wait to meet the crane carriage, and soon I shall call at the dragon pavilion. Knowing already that this meeting is the good fortune of Heaven, I feel only my leaping grow deeper by the day. Zengxi set out his wish to bathe in the Yi, but it showed no more than empty talk. Zhongyou was glad at the word about floating on the sea, but in the end it was no real matter. So with a look through a tube and a stroke with a straw stalk, I truly make the past low and the present glorious. The feeling of one low cannot bear his longing, his glad clapping, and his fear, and it reaches its height, and so on.