Source: From Liu Yuxi's "The First Meeting in Yangzhou" in the Tang Dynasty.
Original text:
The mountains were desolate and silent for twenty-three years. People come back. Like people in Michelle, I can only play the flute, and I am disappointed.
On one side of the boat, Qian Fan races; At the head of the sick tree, every year is a spring shower. Today, listen to you sing a song, drink a glass of wine and cheer up.
He was banished to these desolate areas of Bashan and Chushui and spent 23 years in poverty. The old days of remembering old friends and reciting Xiao Fu in vain no longer exist. There are still thousands of sailboats from Qian Qian passing by the capsized ships; There are thousands of trees thriving in front of the dead trees. After listening to the poem you recited to me today, I will cheer up with this glass of wine for the time being.
Creative background:
This poem was written in the second year of Emperor Jingzong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 826). Liu Yuxi went on strike and returned to Luoyang, and Bai Juyi returned to Luoyang from Suzhou. When they first met in Yangzhou, Bai Juyi gave Liu Yuxi a poem at a banquet, and Liu Yuxi wrote this poem to answer.
Liu Yuxi likes playing Go since he was a child. He has a good relationship with the chess player Wang, who teaches the prince to play chess. When the prince became emperor, his teacher Wang formed a cabinet and promoted his chess friend Liu Yuxi as the suggestion. Later, after the failure of Wang Group's political reform, Liu Yuxi was demoted to other places to be an official, and was recalled to Beijing in the second year (AD 826). Passing through Yangzhou in winter, I met Bai Juyi who was also demoted. Bai Juyi wrote a song "Drunk to the Twenty-eight Ambassadors of Liu" at the banquet as a greeting: "Bring me a glass of wine and sing a song with you. Although your poetry is first-class and can be called a national champion, it is doomed that you can't get it. Dou Rong's eyes are decent, but you stay lonely for a long time. Full officials have their own satisfactory positions, but you are empty. I also know that the name of the joint is folded, and it has been folded too much in 23 years. " Bai Juyi expressed his sympathy and grievance for Liu Yuxi's relegation in his poems. So Liu Yuxi wrote this song, "The First Meeting in Yangzhou Will Enjoy Lotte", and gave it back to Bai Juyi.
Appreciate:
In this poem, Liu Yuxi adopted a step-by-step approach. The first couplet, the first layer of the poem, first describes the experience of innocent being demoted, which sets the tone of anger for the whole poem. The second couplet of this poem, through mourning for the victims and the scene that he returned to his hometown as if isolated from the world, deepened his anger. The third layer of poetry, pushing one step further, compared his fall with the rise of the nouveau riche, and the poet's self-motivation reached its peak.
Couplets, the fourth level of poetry, take a sharp turn for the worse, indicating that they are not negative and discouraged. Be energetic, enterprising, re-engage in life and end up with self-encouragement. Layers of depth, concise and profound. Anger is not shallow, affection is not deep, melancholy is not decadent, which can be called Liu Yuxi's masterpiece. Liu Yuxi's indomitable perseverance in this poem has given great inspiration and encouragement to future generations, so it has been passed down from ancient times to the present and is praised by people.