Farewell to Meng Haoran on the way to Yangzhou from Yellow Crane Tower.
Author Li Bai? the Tang Dynasty
Old friends frequently waved to me, bid farewell to the Yellow Crane Tower, and traveled to Yangzhou in this beautiful spring filled with catkins and flowers.
My friend's sail shadow faded away and disappeared at the end of the blue sky, only seeing the first line of the Yangtze River and heading for the distant horizon.
Translation:
Old friends frequently waved to me, bid farewell to the Yellow Crane Tower, and traveled to Yangzhou on this catkin-like, flowery March spring day.
The lonely sail shadow of my friend faded away and disappeared at the end of the blue sky, only seeing a line of the Yangtze River, heading for the distant sky.
Content explanation:
The Yellow Crane Tower Farewell to Meng Haoran in Yangzhou is a farewell poem by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. In March of the 18th year of Kaiyuan (AD 730), Li Bai learned that Meng Haoran was going to Guangling (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu), so he sent a letter to meet Meng Haoran in Jiangxia (now Wuchang District, Wuhan). A few days later, Meng Haoran took a boat to the east, and Li Bai personally sent it to the river. When I was leaving, I wrote this song "Farewell to Meng Haoran on the way to Yangzhou by the Yellow Crane Tower".
Li Bai was neither sad nor unhappy about this parting. On the contrary, he thinks Meng Haoran's trip is very happy. He yearns for Yangzhou and Meng Haoran, so when he says goodbye, his heart flies with him, and there is endless poetry in his chest. Although this poem is a farewell work, it is elegant and smart, affectionate but not stagnant, meaningful but not sad, beautiful but not floating, and far-reaching rhyme.