The Tang poem "Cicada" hints at the poet's clean character and interests.
"Cicada"
Yu Shinan, Tang Dynasty
Original text:
Cui Sui drank the clear dew, and the flowing sound came out of the sparse tung trees.
It is not just to take advantage of the autumn wind to speak loudly and stay far away.
Translation:
On the sparse sycamore trees, cicadas drank the clear dew, and their sound was clear and loud, echoing in the woods. Standing on a high branch, you can stand out from the crowd of insects. You don't need to rely on the autumn wind, and the sound is still far away.
Extended information:
"Cicada" is an ancient five-character poem written by Yu Shinan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. It is a poem with a metaphorical meaning. The author uses the metaphor of the object in the first and second sentences to use the cicada's perch high up to drink dew and the sound of the cicada to spread far away, which is a metaphor for people's clear, handsome and elegant charm; "The word "positive and negative", full of tension, expresses passionate praise and high confidence in people's inner character. The whole poem is concise and expressive, with clever metaphors. It describes Qiuchichan's noble and proud character, which is thought-provoking.
About the author of "Cicada":
Yu Shinan, a poet and calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty. The courtesy name is Bo Shi, a native of Yuyao. One of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion. His father Yuli, his brother Yu Shiji, and his uncle Yu Ji were all famous for a while. Yu Ji had no children, so Shi Nan adopted him, so he was named Bo Shi.
In the reign of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, he served as a secretary supervisor and a bachelor of Hongwen Hall. Yu Shui is prosperous." Dazong of the Tang Dynasty once said that he had the five qualities of virtue, loyalty, erudition, diction, and calligraphy, and he was praised as "a famous contemporary minister with accurate human ethics." Posthumous title Wenyi.
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