It is said that the scenery along the Chunjiang River is Yan Fang, and the third spring is coming. How can it not be sad?
Crazy catkins dance with the wind, and fine peach blossoms chase water.
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It is said that the riverside scenery is beautiful, and spring is coming to an end. How can I not be sad? Walking on crutches at the head of the river, standing on the Zhou Fang, I only saw catkins jumping wildly, dancing unscrupulously with the wind, and thin, self-respecting peach blossoms chasing the running water.
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Catkin flying in the wind, falling flowers floating in the water, this is a unique scenery in late spring, but it evokes infinite sadness. In the poet's pen, catkins and peach blossoms are personified, like a group of snobs. They are completely indifferent to the passage of spring, only know to ride the wind and drift with the flow. This is the cause of the poet's pain. Here, the poet is deeply dissatisfied with the dark reality and depressed that his political ideal cannot be realized. Later, peach catkins became synonymous with general snobs.
Nine poems were written in the second year of Du Fu's residence in Chengdu Caotang, that is, the second year of Emperor Taizong (76 1). Du Fu Caotang is located on the Shehua River outside the west gate of Chengdu, with beautiful scenery. Poets should have cultivated themselves in this stable environment. Poets who suffer from separation are concerned about the country and the people and take the world as their responsibility. Although there are many flowers in front of me, my worries about my home country still haunt me. This is the first of them, expressing the poet's deep dissatisfaction with the social reality at that time and the anguish that his political ambition could not be realized.
"The heartbroken spring river is exhausted, and the stick is placed in the week." It is said that the riverside scenery is beautiful and the late spring is about to pass. How can it not make people sad? Walking along the river with crutches, standing on the Zhou Fang and looking around.
"Crazy catkins dance with the wind, and fine peach blossoms chase the water." I only saw catkins dancing wildly in the spring breeze, thin peach blossoms, chasing the flowing water of the Chunjiang River and floating away happily.