Original poem:
"Two Hometown Couplets, Part I" Tang Dynasty: He
Young people leave home, old people return, and the local accent has not changed.
When children meet strangers, they will smile and ask where the guests are from.
Explanation:
I left my hometown when I was young and didn't come back until my twilight years. Although my local accent hasn't changed, my hair on my sideburns has become sparse. None of the children knew me when they saw me. They asked with a smile, where did this guest come from?
Introduction:
He, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a group of poems when he resigned from his post and returned to his hometown in his later years. The first poem expresses the author's sadness after a long separation from other places, and also writes the intimacy of returning home after a long separation; The second poem captures the contrast between the change and invariability of hometown, and reveals the author's feelings and helplessness about the change of life, the vicissitudes of time and the fact that things have changed. These two poems are unpretentious in language, natural and vivid in feelings and full of life interest.
He (659 ~ 744) was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Ji Zhen was born in Yongxing, Yuezhou (now Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province). Wu Zetian was a scholar in the year of Shengyuan (695), awarded four doctors in Guo Zi and moved to Dr. Taichang. Later, he served as assistant minister of rites, secretary supervisor and prince guest.
Extended data:
In 744 AD (the third year of Tianbao), He resigned from the imperial palace and retired to his hometown of Yongxing, Yuezhou (now Xiaoshan, Zhejiang). At that time, he was eighty-six years old, and he had left his hometown for more than fifty years in middle age. Life is easy to get old, the world is vicissitudes, and my heart is filled with emotion.
The dramatic scene of children laughing and asking questions. "Laugh and ask where the guest comes from", which is just a faint question among children, so stop here; On the poet, it became a heavy blow, which triggered his infinite feelings. In his later years, the sadness of the opposition between subject and object was included in this seemingly dull question. This is the place where the whole poem ends quietly, but the meaning is like an empty valley, full of sadness and boundless.
As far as the whole poem is concerned, one or two sentences are mediocre, while three or four sentences are like twists and turns, with no boundary. The beauty of the last two sentences lies in the powder on the back, which is seamless: although mourning is written, it is expressed in a happy scene; Although I wrote about myself, it was turned out from the side of the child. The scene where children ask questions is full of life interest. Even if the reader is not infected by the poet's long-term feelings of hurting the elderly, he can't help but be moved by this interesting life scene.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Couplets of Two Hometowns