Remembering Shandong Brothers on September 9
Author Wang Wei? Dynasty Tang Dynasty
I am a stranger in a foreign land, and I miss my family even more during the festive season.
I know from afar that my brothers have climbed to a high place, and there is one less person planting dogwood trees everywhere.
Translation:
Being far away from home alone is inevitably a bit desolate. Every Double Ninth Festival, I miss my relatives far away even more. When I think of my brothers wearing dogwoods and climbing to high places, I feel regretful because I am missing.
Wang Wei's poem "Remembering the Brothers in Shandong on September 9th" is published in Volume 128 of "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty". The following is the appreciation of this poem by Mr. Liu Xuekai, the executive director of the Tang Dynasty Literature Research Association.
Wang Wei is a precocious writer who wrote many excellent poems in his youth. This poem was written when he was seventeen years old. Different from his later landscape poems that were rich in painting and very particular in composition and color, this lyrical poem was written very simply.
But for thousands of years, people have strongly felt its power when reading this poem while visiting a foreign country. This power comes first from its simplicity, depth and high level of generalization.