"Remembering Shandong Brothers on September 9th" Wang Wei
I am a stranger in a foreign land, and I miss my family even more during the festive season. ?
I know from afar that my brothers have climbed to a high place, and there is one less person planting dogwood trees everywhere.
This was written in Chang'an when the poet was seventeen years old. It was the work of a young man who was able to avoid superficial carvings and point directly to true feelings. He indeed knew the secret of writing poetry. The poet's hometown of Puzhou (now Yongji, Shanxi) is east of Huashan, so it is titled "Remembering Shandong Brothers". The ancients regarded nine as the Yang number, and September 9th was the Double Ninth Festival. When writing festival poems, the most important thing is to avoid falling into clichés. The cleverness of this poem lies in avoiding clichés and grasping the true temperament. The first sentence uses two words "different", which seems to blurt out, but it uniquely exaggerates the unfamiliar and uncomfortable loneliness of being a guest in a foreign land.
Judging from the word "every time", the double loneliness is not unique to this festival, but has happened in many previous festivals. It is precisely the loneliness that has been suppressed for a long time, especially under today's circumstances, that the poet expresses the feeling of missing family members during the festive season that is condensed deep in his heart.