Guiyan
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty
Author: Du Fu
Original text:
Spring has come, when can I go home from my hometown?
What makes me sad is that even the river geese can fly north freely, but I can't move.
translate
Spring has come. When can I go home? Who is far away? What saddens me most is that even the geese in Jiangcheng can fly freely to the north, but I can't move a step.
"East to Wan Li, how many years?" Pointed out the time and place of residence, and expressed his desire to return to his hometown. After the Anshi Rebellion, in eight years, Du Fu left his hometown with his family and moved from Chang 'an, Luoyang and Qin Zhou to Chengdu, Sichuan. The word "East" is also called "Spring". In the early spring of this year, when he was wandering in Langzhou, northern Sichuan, he was ready to go down to Yuzhou gorge by water in order to return to his hometown in Henan. But because his old friend Yanwu came to Chengdu for the second time and invited Du Fu to Chengdu, he gave up the idea of going out of the gorge and moved his family back to live in Chengdu Caotang. The word "Wan Li guest" is full of sadness and deep homesickness after years of running around.