The quatrains are the works of Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty.
Original text:
"Two orioles sing green willows, and egrets cover the sky."
My window framed the snow-covered western hills. My door often says "goodbye" to ships sailing eastward.
Translation:
Two orioles sang tactfully among the green willows, and a group of neat egrets went straight into the blue sky.
Sitting by the window, you can see the snow accumulated all the year round on Xiling Mountain, and ships from Dongwu, thousands of miles away, are parked in front of the door.
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Creative background:
In 762 AD, at the height of the Tang Dynasty, Chengdu Yin entered Korea. At that time, due to the "Anshi Rebellion", Du Fu once avoided Zizhou. In the second year, the rebellion was put down and Yanwu returned to Chengdu.
Du Fu also returned to Chengdu Caotang. At that time, he was in a good mood Faced with the vitality of this school, he couldn't help writing this poem.
Appreciate:
"Two orioles sing green willows, and a line of egrets fly into the sky." Two orioles are singing, and there is a sound. "A line of egrets goes up to the sky" has an act and an action. One horizontal and one vertical, "two" and "one" are opposites.
Horizontal and vertical, it opens a very beautiful natural landscape. The word "Ming" is the most vivid in this poem, which describes the oriole more vividly by anthropomorphic means. Then Du Fu talked about "the window of Xiling contains snow".
Outside my window, there are thousands of years of snow in Minshan, and in the west, there is a thousand years of snow in Minshan. "Soochow Wan Li Ship" There is a long Wan Li ship parked in front of my house. This forms a welcome and send.
Meet this snowy mountain and come into your sight. Take this boat downstream. So this "Wan Li Ship" can pass, which also shows that this "Anshi Rebellion" has come to an end and is close to being pacified. At this time, the ship can also pass.
Businessmen can come and go on this river. Then such a poem is beautiful in itself, with four sentences in pairs. There have been quatrains since the Six Dynasties, which became a very mature art after the Tang Dynasty.
Many of our famous poems use quatrains. A quatrain is four sentences, which often don't match, or the first two sentences of the four sentences match the scenery and the last two sentences match the lyric, or the first two sentences match the last two sentences without matching.
So now his four-sentence antithesis can be said to be a poem written very neatly and with great care. Du Fu once wrote a poem that made people "swear, not surprisingly, never stop", so he put it into practice.