Bai Juyi [Tang Dynasty]
The long grass is so lush that the withered grass will thicken the color of the grass every autumn and winter.
Wildfire can't burn it out, but the spring breeze can revive it.
Weeds and wild flowers are all over the ancient road, and the end of the grass in the sun is your journey.
I once again sent my bosom friend, and the thick grass represented my deep affection.
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The Yuan Ye is covered with lush grass, which turns yellow in autumn and winter every year and thickens in spring.
Wildfire can't burn all the weeds on the ground. When the spring breeze blows, the earth turns green.
The fragrant weeds in the distance are covered with ancient roads, and Greentown is even deserted under the sunshine.
Today, I have come to bid farewell to my old friend. Even the lush grass is full of feelings of parting.
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Ford: Write poems with ancient poems or idiom propositions. There is usually the word "fu" in front of a poem. This is a way for ancient people to learn to write poems, or to write poems on different topics at literati gatherings, or to write poems on topics in imperial examinations, which is called "Fu Yi".
Separation: the appearance of lush grass.
As each season comes and goes: wither, wither. Rong, lush. Weeds flourish and wither once a year.
Honey, they are sweet on the road: Fang refers to the rich aroma of weeds. Fiona Fang: The fragrance of grass spreads everywhere. Invasion, occupation, full. The fragrant weeds in the distance have grown all the way to the ancient post road.
Green: the grassland is bright green.
Wang Sun: This refers to the descendants of nobles, and this refers to friends far away.
Lush: describes the appearance of lush vegetation.
Creation background
Farewell to Fude Guyuan Grass was written in the third year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong (AD 788), when the author was only sixteen years old. This poem is an exam-oriented exercise. According to the rules of scientific research, the word "Fu" must be added to any limited poem topic at present, which is similar to chanting things.
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This poem is a trial poem, and the proposition is "Farewell to the ancient grass". Feelings such as grass seem to start from the famous sentence "Wang Sun wanders away, spring grass grows and warblers fly" ("Chu Ci Recruits Hermits"), which was written by ancient poets. This poem describes the characteristics of "ancient grassland" and the meaning of farewell, and also writes new ideas.
The first sentence is the word "ancient grass". The rambling grass across the plain captures the vitality of "spring grass" and can be said to be detached from "spring grass growth and growth" without trace, which opens up a good idea for the following. As far as Ancient Grass is concerned, it can also be called Qiu Lai Deep Path (the original Autumn Grass was written by Gu Huai, a monk), and the whole story will be another kind of weather. Weeds are annual plants, which flourish in spring and wither in autumn. "Come and go with each season" seems to be nothing more than that. However, writing "withered-glorious" is very different from writing "glorious-withered". If the latter is autumn grass, you can't make three or four good sentences. The word "one" overlaps together, forming a sigh, showing an endless feeling first, and three or four sentences will follow.
"Wildfire never completely devoured them, and they grew taller in the spring breeze." This is the development of the word "withered glory", which changed from a concept to an image. The ancient grass is characterized by tenacious vitality. You can't cut or hoe. As long as a few roots are left, the next year will be greener and longer, and will soon spread to Yuanye. Grasping this feature, the author does not say "endless chopping and hoeing", but writes "wildfire never consumes them completely", creating a heroic artistic conception. Wildfires start a prairie fire, and the flames are terrible. In an instant, a large area of hay was burned to the ground. Emphasizing the power of destruction and the pain of destruction means emphasizing the power of regeneration and the joy of regeneration. Fire can "burn out" all weeds, even stems and leaves, but the author says it is "inexhaustible" and is of great significance. Because no matter how fierce the fire is, there is no way to help the roots buried deep underground. Once the spring breeze melts into rain, the life of weeds will revive and cover the earth again with rapid growth in response to the abuse of fire. "The endless grassland" is like a green flag of victory. The language of "they have grown taller in the spring breeze" is concise and powerful, and the word "rebirth" has three points and ten meanings. Song Dynasty and Notes on Remnant Gaizhai said that these two sentences were "not as concise as Liu Changqing's poem Burning Green in Spring", but they were not really seen. These two sentences not only write the character of "grass on the original", but also write a typical ideal of rebirth from the fire. One sentence is dry, the other is glory, "Burning Endless" and "Blowing Again" sing sigh, and the confrontation is also logical, so it is outstanding throughout the ages. Although Liu's sentences are similar in meaning, they lack charm and are far less than white sentences.
Brief introduction of the author
Bai Juyi (772-846), a native of Xinzheng, Henan Province, was born in Taiyuan, Lotte, Xiangshan, and drunk. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu". Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, various forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.