I have been away from my hometown for many years, and I have been half-baked recently.
Only in front of Jinghu Lake, the spring breeze does not change the waves of the past.
Translation:
I left my hometown for a long time, and I didn't feel the personnel changes in my hometown until I got home. Only the clear water of Jinghu Lake in front of the door ripples in circles under the spring breeze, just like it did more than 50 years ago.
Extended data
Creation background
Tang Xuanzong Tianbao three years (744), He resigned and retired to Yongxing, Yuezhou. At this time, he was 86 years old, and he had left his hometown for more than 50 years in middle age. Life is easy to get old, but things change. He wrote this group of poems because of his infinite feelings in his heart.
Poetry appreciation
The second song can be regarded as a sequel to the first one. After the poet got home, he learned about the personnel changes in his hometown through conversations with relatives and friends. While sighing for a long time, he could not help sighing about the impermanence of personnel.
"Leaving my hometown for many years" is equivalent to the last song "Leaving home to be the boss when I was young". The poet never tires of repeating the same meaning, just because all feelings are caused by decades of exile. So the next sentence is to dig out the discussion about personnel. The phrase "personnel have been exhausted recently" contains many specific contents that deeply touch the poet's feelings.
After three or four sentences, the poet's eyes shifted from personnel changes to the description of natural scenery. Jinghu Lake is located at the northern foot of Huiji Mountain in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, more than 300 miles from Fiona Fang. He's former residence is next to Jinghu Lake. Although it has been decades since I left Jinghu Lake, the water waves in Jinghu Lake are still rippling in the surrounding spring scenery.
By the independent mirror lake, a feeling of "things are different from people" naturally came to my mind, so I wrote a poem "Only the mirror lake in front of the door, the spring breeze will not change the old waves". Emphasize that except for the lake wave, almost all things in the past have changed.