The Original Text and Detailed Explanation of Li Bai's "Smelling the Flute in Los Angeles on a Spring Night"

Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote "Smelling Xiao in Los Angeles on a Spring Night" as follows:

Yu Di's dark flying sound scattered into the spring breeze in Los Angeles.

In this nocturne, the willow is broken, and no one can afford to be homesick.

Interpretation of vernacular Chinese: Whose exquisite flute secretly makes melodious sound? As the spring breeze flutters, it spreads all over Luoyang. In tonight's song, who will not miss home when they hear the "broken willow" in their hometown?

Los Angeles: Luoyang, Henan Province today. Flute: the laudatory name of the flute. Dark flying sound: The sound came from nowhere. Sound: sound.

Spring breeze: refers to the spring wind, which is a metaphor for an elegant and harmonious atmosphere. Smell: listen; I heard you.

Folding willow: that is, the flute sound of "Folding willow" and Yuefu's "Blowing across the Drum Horn" are the topics, and the content is mostly parting feelings. This song expresses the sadness of parting.

Hometown: refers to hometown, hometown.

Extended data

Smelling flute in Los Angeles on a Spring Night is a seven-character quatrain written by Li Bai when he visited Los Angeles (Luoyang) in the 23rd year of Xuanzong in Tang Dynasty (735). In the Tang Dynasty, Luoyang was a very prosperous city, known as the East Capital. On a night immersed in the spring breeze, Luoyang City, which had been bustling all day, calmed down. Li Bai accidentally heard the flute and caused homesickness, probably in an inn. He wrote this poem.

Li Bai's hometown was in Sichuan, and he left home in his twenties to travel east, and then lived in Hubei and Shandong for a long time. It is natural that he heard the flute "Broken Willow" on a spring night, which caused deep homesickness. Therefore, it is sincere and exciting, which has aroused strong voices in the hearts of travelers for thousands of years.