The White Emperor arrived in the morning and arrived in Jiangling in the evening. From this, we can think of the words in Li Bai's "Early Departure from Baidi City" that "Baidu's speeches are among the colorful clouds, and thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are returned in one day."
Early Departure from Baidi City
It is a poem by Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty. This poem was written in the second year of Qianyuan (759) when the poet was pardoned and returned from exile. Its purpose is to describe the rapid flow of the Yangtze River from Baidi to Jiangling and the speed of the boat. The first sentence describes the height of Baidi City; the second sentence describes the distance to Jiangling and the speed of the boat; the third sentence uses the shadow of the mountains to set off the rapid progress of the boat.
The four sentences describe the boat as light as nothing, indicating that the water is flowing like water. The whole poem combines the poet's happy mood after being pardoned with the magnificence of the mountains and rivers, and the smoothness and briskness of boating along the current. It uses exaggeration and fantasy to write it in a fluent and elegant way, shocking the world, without artificiality, and is arbitrary and natural. Yang Shen, a man of the Ming Dynasty, praised: "The ghosts and gods wept in the storm."
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Baidi City: Gongsun Shu came out of the Eastern Han Dynasty to conquer Shu and proclaimed himself emperor. It was white in color, so it got its name. The former site is on Baidi Mountain in Fengjie, Chongqing today. Yang Qixian's note: "Baidi City was built by Gongsun Shu. In the early days, when Gongsun Shu came to Yufu, a white dragon came out of the well. He inherited the fate of the Han Dynasty, so it was called Baidi City. It was changed from Yufu to Baidi City." Wang Qi Note: "Baidi City is located in Fengjie County, Kuizhou, close to Wushan. The so-called colorful clouds refer to the clouds in Wushan."
Chao: Morning. Words: Farewell. Baidi: Baidi City. Caiyunjian: Because Baidi City is located on Baidi Mountain, the terrain is high and steep. Looking up from the river below the mountain, it seems to tower into the clouds.
This poem was written in March of the second year of Qianyuan (759) by Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty. In the first year of Qianyuan (758), Li Bai was exiled to Yelang because of the case of Yongwang Li Lin. In the spring of the following year, when he was traveling to Baidi City, he suddenly received the news of the pardon. The poet was overjoyed and immediately took a boat east to Jiangling. This poem was written when the poet left Baidi City and took a boat down the river to Jiangling after being pardoned. Therefore, the poem is titled "White Emperor Goes Down to Jiangling".
Thousands of miles to Jiangling: It is about 1,200 miles from Baidi City to Jiangling (now Jingzhou, Hubei), including the Three Gorges of 700 miles. One-day return: You can arrive in one day. Return, return; return. "Shui Jing Zhu·Jiang Shui": "From the Three Gorges for seven hundred miles, there are mountains on both sides, and there is no gap. ... Sometimes I will go to Baidi in the morning, and I will arrive in Jiangling at dusk. During this period of one thousand two hundred miles, I can ride on the wind to control the wind, but I can't use it." Disease.
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