Excerpts from the original poem are as follows:
Release Baidicheng in advance?
Author: Li Bai
Early in the morning, I bid farewell to Jiangling city, which is high into the sky, thousands of miles away, and the boat is only one day away.
The cries of apes on both sides of the strait are still unconsciously crowing in their ears, and the canoe has passed the heavy green hills.
First Coming to Baidicheng is a four-line poem written by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, when he returned from exile in 759. This is one of Li Bai's most widely circulated poems. This poem describes the Yangtze River from Bai Di to Jiangling, with fast-flowing water and ships flying. The first sentence is about the height of Baidicheng; The second sentence is written in Jiangling Road, and the ship is fast; Three sentences fly into the boat, accompanied by the sound of mountain shadows; Four sentences write that the boat is as light as nothing, pointing out that the water is like diarrhea. The whole poem combines the poet's happy mood after forgiveness with the grandeur of the countryside and the smooth and light sailing along the river. With exaggeration and whimsy, the writing is graceful and elegant, shocking the world, unpretentious, arbitrary and natural. Yang Shenzan, a Ming scholar, praised him: "You were scared to cry by the wind and rain!"
Vernacular translation
In the morning, I bid farewell to the towering Patty City. Jiangling, thousands of miles away, is only a day's boat ride.
Apes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are still singing in their ears, and before they know it, the canoe has passed the Thousand Peaks.
Creation background
This poem was written in March 759, the second year of Tang Suzong Gan Yuan. In the spring of that year, Li Bai was exiled to Yelang because of the Li Lin case in Wang Yong, and went to a relegated place via Sichuan. When I went to Baidi City, I suddenly received the news of pardon, and I was pleasantly surprised. Then I went to Jiangling by boat. This poem was written when the ship returned to Jiangling, so the title of the poem is "Bai Di goes to Jiangling".
Predecessors once thought that this poem was written by Li Bai when he went out to Shu in his youth. However, according to the poem "Jiangling is a thousand miles away, and Li Bai once traveled from Jiangling to the Three Gorges, this poem should have been written when he came back.