Full text:
Offer flowers to the youth
Author du fu? the Tang Dynasty
The city music under the overpass is soft and melodious, half of it goes with the river wind and the other half floats into the clouds.
This kind of music should only be in heaven, where can I hear it several times?
Translation:
Jinguancheng's music is soft and melodious, half of it floats with the river wind and the other half floats into the clouds. This kind of music should only be found in the sky. How many times can you hear it on the earth?
This four-line poem is literally as clear as words, but there have been many objections to its theme. Some people think that it is just a hymn without any implication; Some people think that it is ostensibly praising music, but in fact it contains irony and exhortation.
Ironically, the author did not explicitly criticize Hua Qing, but adopted a clever pun. Literally, this is an excellent musical compliment.
"Chengdu has more silk management days", which means Chengdu; Silk tubes refer to stringed and wind instruments; Succession, originally meant that things are numerous and chaotic, is usually used to describe concrete things that can be seen and touched, but here it is used to describe abstract music that can't be seen and touched, which is extremely accurate from the perspective of human auditory and visual synaesthesia.
About the author:
Du Fu (7 12-770), with beautiful words, is as famous as Du Gongbu and Du Shaoling. He was a great realistic poet in Gongxian, Henan (gongyi city, Zhengzhou, Henan) in the Tang Dynasty. Du Fu is regarded as a "poet saint" by the world, and his poems are called "the history of poetry". Du Fu and Li Bai are collectively called "Du Li". Du Fu was concerned about the country and the people, and his personality was noble. There are about 1400 poems preserved, and the collection is Du Gongbu, whose poetic skills are exquisite and highly respected in Chinese classical poetry, with far-reaching influence.