Luocheng Poems

"Luo City" Qing Dynasty - Deng Yi's poem: The embankment and river flow eastward, and the willows and hibiscus are reflected in the painting building. Looking back at Luocheng several times, the most pity-like mountains look like Yangzhou.

1. The embankment and the river flow eastward, and the Yangliu and Furong Film and Television Building.

Translation: The river water of the embankment rolls eastward, and the blooming hibiscus and green willows set off the picturesque terraces.

2. Looking back at Luocheng several times, the most pity-like mountains look like Yangzhou.

Translation: Looking back at Luoyang City for the first few times, the scenery of water and mountains is most like the pleasant scenery of Yangzhou.

About the author

Deng Yi (1831-1900), lived in Wugang Prefecture (now Wugang City), Hunan Province in the Qing Dynasty. He studied at Changsha Chengnan Academy in 1848; he studied in Wugang during the Xianfeng period He led the village to bravely resist the siege of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In the third year of Tongzhi, he was hired by Zuo Zongtang as an aide to the governor's office and appointed as an alternate magistrate of Zhejiang. In the fifth year of Tongzhi, he returned to his hometown to mourn. In the fourth year of Guangxu, he went to Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Jiangxi provinces to inspect current affairs.

From the eighth to the seventeenth year of Guangxu's reign, he successively gave lectures at Changsha School Classics Hall, Henan Zhiyong Academy, Wuchang Lianghu Academy, etc.; in the eighteenth year of Guangxu's reign, at the invitation of Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he gave lectures on Guangdong Helin In the 19th year of Guangxu's reign, he still lived in his hometown. In the 26th year of Guangxu's reign (1900), he died of illness at his former residence in Dadian Bay at the age of 69. He is the author of "Collected Works of Zaochuantang", "Miscellaneous Notes on the March", and "Yue Yan" , "Sincerity", etc.

Poems related to Luocheng:

1. "Autumn Anvil in Luocheng" Tang Dynasty - Xu Ning

Autumn anvil is growing on the water of Sanchuan River, in front of Wufeng Tower The bright moon is new. On a bright moonlit night in Qiuzhen, people in Luoyang city are even more worried.

2. "A Reward to Shuda of the Song Dynasty for seeing him in Luo City" - Sima Guang of the Song Dynasty

Forty-one spring breezes, even if we meet again, it is like a dream. Fortunately, we are neighbors, but we regret that each other is a loser.

3. "Viewing the Flowers in Luocheng Presented to Mr. Yaofu" by Zhang Min of the Song Dynasty

I have been a flower lover all my life, and I look for flowers everywhere but never find the true ones. I just say that there is no righteousness in the world, and now we see spring in Luoyang for the first time.