This poem comes from a folk song and was later published in "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty". The author is unknown.
The main idea of ??the full text is: There is a road called Huangquan Road, a river called Wangchuan River, and a bridge called Naihe Bridge. After passing Naihe Bridge, there is an earth platform called Wangxiang Terrace, and there is a platform beside Wangxiang Terrace. The old woman was selling Meng Po soup. There was a piece of bluestone beside the bridge called the Sansheng Stone. The Sansheng Stone recorded everyone's past and present lives. The body of the stone was as red as blood, with four words "Get to the other side early" engraved on it.
This is a eulogy in memory of his deceased wife. It is inspired by his own unfortunate experience. The upper part is realistic and the lower part is fictitious. Every sentence is pathos and passionate, and the language is simple, but readers can deeply feel it. The author's longing for his wife is combined with the helpless melancholy. The sentence "Ten years of life and death" tells that the dead know nothing about the living, and the living have changed after ten years, which makes the readers I cried after reading it.
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The flower of the other shore, the tenderness of the devil. In folklore, a flower that voluntarily threw itself into hell was sent back by the demons, but still lingered on the road to hell. The demons couldn't bear it, so they agreed to let her bloom on this road to provide guidance and comfort to the innocent souls who left the human world. The snow-white and blood-red Hibiscus flowers both represent death.
It is said that mandala flowers bloom on the road to heaven, and mandala flowers bloom on the road to hell. Both represent death, one prefers another interpretation of death: rebirth; the other prefers the hesitation and wandering of pain and regret: degeneration. So there is only a thin line between hell and heaven. The so-called difference between angels and demons is just the meaning of color and burden.
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