I. Original text
March for nine days, thinking about Chang' an home.
Author: (Tang)
On the ninth festival of the ninth day of September, I reluctantly climbed to the heights to look out, but no one could deliver wine in the marching war.
I look at my hometown Chang 'an with a heavy heart. The chrysanthemums around this battlefield are scattered.
Second, translation.
Reluctantly want to climb the mountain to drink according to the custom, but unfortunately no one brought wine to Hong.
Poor chrysanthemums in Chang 'an's hometown in the distance should bloom alone beside the battlefield at this moment.
Appreciate:
There are many good poems about climbing on the Double Ninth Festival in Tang Dynasty, and each poem has its own characteristics. Cen Can's "Five Wonders" are not ordinary holiday homesickness, but concern for the state affairs and people's sufferings in the war. On the surface, it looks straightforward and simple, but the actual idea is exquisite and charming. It is a lyric masterpiece with concise meaning and thought-provoking.
The original note of this poem says: "Chang 'an has not received it yet. "In the 14th year of Tang Tianbao (755), An Lushan rebelled and Chang 'an fell the following year. In the second year of Zhide (757), Su Zong marched into Fengxiang from Pengyuan, accompanied by Cen Can. Tang Jun recovered Chang 'an in September, and the poem was probably written in Fengxiang on the Double Ninth Festival. Cen Can is from Nanyang, but he has lived in Chang 'an for a long time, so he called Chang 'an "hometown".
The ancients had the custom of climbing to drink chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival on September 9, and the word "climbing" in the first sentence is closely related to the "nine days" in the title. The word "Qiang" truly shows the poet's tragic situation in the war. The second sentence uses the allusions of Tao Yuanming.
According to "Biography of Southern History and Seclusion", Tao Yuanming once celebrated the Double Ninth Festival, sitting alone among the chrysanthemums next to his house and not drinking for a long time.
Later, it happened that Wang Hong brought wine, and then he went home drunk. This in turn means that although I reluctantly want to climb the mountain and drink according to the custom, no one sent me wine to entertain me during the war.
This sentence inherits the previous sentence, which is naturally connected and clearly written, making people feel that it is an allusion, which meets the highest requirement of "using things" put forward by predecessors: "Using things does not make people feel, but if you speak from your chest." It is precisely because of the clever use of allusions here that people can arouse all kinds of associations and guesses, which implies the specific environment of "marching" in the title.
The word "Yao" at the beginning of the third sentence is to exaggerate the distance between himself and his hometown Chang 'an and see more homesickness. When the author writes about homesickness, he doesn't talk in general terms, but especially emphasizes his thoughts and pity for chrysanthemum in Chang 'an's hometown.
In this way, not only the individual represents the general, but also the "hometown chrysanthemum" represents the whole hometown of Chang' an, which is vivid and concrete.