Qiu Si Tianjinsha 1
Author: Ma Zhiyuan
Dynasty: Yuan Dynasty
Full text: Dead vines and old trees faint, small bridges and flowing water, old roads and thin horses. When the sun sets, heartbroken people are at the end of the world.
Vernacular translation:
At dusk, a group of crows landed on an old tree with withered vines and made a piercing cry. Under the small bridge, the running water jingles, and the farmhouse next to the small bridge raises smoke. On the ancient road, a thin horse struggled against the west wind. The sunset gradually lost its luster and set from the west. On a cold night, only lonely travelers wander in the distance.
2. "quatrains"
Author: Du Fu
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty
Full text: Two orioles sing green willows and a row of egrets go up to the sky. My window framed the snow-covered western hills. My door often says "goodbye" to ships sailing eastward.
Vernacular translation:
Two orioles sang tactfully among the green willows, and a group of neat egrets went straight into the blue sky. Sitting by the window, you can see the snow accumulated all the year round on Xiling Mountain, and ships from Dongwu, thousands of miles away, are parked in front of the door.
3. "birdsong flow"
Author: Wang Wei
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty
Full text: people are idle, and the night is quiet and the mountains are empty. When the moon comes out, the birds are startled, and the sound enters the spring stream.
Vernacular translation:
People's activities are very few, only osmanthus flowers fall silently, and the valley in silent spring is silent and empty at night. The bright moon rose and shone brightly, which alarmed the birds living in the mountains. From time to time, they flew high and sang in the spring stream.
4. Two quatrains, the first part
Author: Du Fu
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty
Full text: Spring breeze and late sunrise, beautiful scenery, fragrant flowers and plants. Swallows are busy nesting in wet mud and sleeping in pairs on the warm beach.
Vernacular translation:
The mountains and rivers are bathed in spring, so beautiful, and the spring breeze brings the fragrance of flowers and plants. Swallows are busy building nests with wet mud in their mouths, and couples of mandarin ducks are sleeping on the warm beach.
Extended data:
Creative background:
Ma Zhiyuan was keen on becoming famous when he was young. However, due to the high-handed policy of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, he never succeeded. He lived a wandering life almost all his life, and was depressed and embarrassed because of it. So on the journey of wandering alone, he wrote this song "Tianjingsha Qiu Si".
Wang Wei's "Bird Sound Stream" is based on the stable and unified prosperous Tang society when Kaiyuan (713-741) traveled to the south of the Yangtze River. This poem is the first of a series of poems entitled Five Topics of Huangfuyue Yunxi written by Wang Wei's good friend Huangfuyue, who lives in Yunxi Mountain Villa. It is the work of a poet who lives in Wuxi (Ruoshuixi) in the southeast of Shaoxing County.
According to "Biography of Wang Wei in the New Tang Dynasty", Wang Wei was a scholar at the beginning of Kaiyuan, and was later named Tai Lecheng. He was demoted to join the army in the same warehouse in Jeju because he was a performer who jumped the yellow lion. It was not until Zhang Jiuling came to power in the 23rd year of Kaiyuan (735) that he returned to Beijing as the right prime minister.
Wang Wei wandered around Ruoye, feeling the scene in front of him, and thinking of the famous sentences that predecessors described Ruoye River. He wants to compete with the ancients to win the blue, and he wins the blue, so he has a wonderful poem "When the moon rises, the birds are surprised, and when the spring comes, it is in the stream". From the analysis of the style and artistic conception embodied in the poem Bird Sound Stream, this poem should be written in the period of "Kaiyuan Prosperity" of Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, and it is the work of Wang Wei in his youth.
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