Gift to Wang Lun
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty
Author: Li Bai
Original text:
Li Bai took a boat to the general As I was about to walk, I suddenly heard the sound of people stepping on the shore and singing.
The water in Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, not as deep as Wang Lun’s love for me.
Translation and Notes
Translation Li Bai got on the boat and was about to leave when he suddenly heard farewell singing from the shore. Even if the water of Peach Blossom Pond is as deep as a thousand feet, it cannot be as deep as Wang Lun's farewell to me. Notes ① Ta Ge: A folk form of singing. While singing, you tap your feet on the ground to make time. You can sing while walking. ②Peach Blossom Pond: One hundred miles southwest of present-day Jingxian County, Anhui Province. "Yi Tong Zhi" calls it unfathomable. ③A thousand feet deep: The poet used the metaphor of a pond a thousand feet deep to describe Wang Lun...
Creative background
Wang Lun was a native of Jingzhou (now Jingxian County, Anhui Province) in the Tang Dynasty. He had a forthright nature. , likes to make friends with famous people, often spend money freely, give generously, and spend a lot of money without hesitation. At that time, Li Bai was well-known in the poetry world. Wang Lun admired him very much and hoped to have a chance to see the poetic elegance. However, Jingzhou is unknown, and he is also an unknown person. How can he invite the great poet Li Bai? Later, Wang Lun got the news that Li Bai was going to travel to Anhui. This...
Appreciation of "The water in Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, not as deep as Wang Lun's gift to me"
Using Bixing techniques, Expressed his deep gratitude to Wang Lun for his affection. The metaphor of a "thousand-foot-deep" pool is a vivid and vivid metaphor for farewell, and the addition of the word "less than" enhances the moving power of the poem. This poem with obvious folk song flavor is natural, simple, fresh and smooth. The poet used the ordinary scenery in front of him as a metaphor to express his sincere affection with his friends. ...
Appreciation 2
Li Bai’s hundreds of poems about drinking wine, he will enjoy traveling to famous mountains in his life. According to Yuan Mei's "Supplement to Suiyuan Poems": Wang Lun, a stranger he had never met, wrote to Li Bai, inviting him to travel to Jingxian County (today's Anhui Province in southern Anhui). The letter wrote enthusiastically: "How do you like to travel, sir?" There are ten miles of peach blossoms here. Do you like to drink, sir? There are thousands of hotels here." Li Bai went there happily. I saw that Wang Lun was a powerful man from Jingchuan. He was hospitable and suave...
Brief analysis
When Li Bai visited Taohuatan in Jing County, he often visited the villager Wang Lun's house. Before leaving, Wang Lun came to see him off, so Li Bai wrote this poem to say goodbye. The poem expresses Li Bai's deep affection for Wang Lun, an ordinary villager. The first two sentences of the narrative: "Li Bai was about to leave in a boat, and suddenly he heard singing on the shore." Li Bai was about to leave in a boat, and Wang Lun came with a group of villagers to see him off. They held hands and sang as they walked. "Desire" and "suddenly heard" correspond to each other, and he wrote...
Appreciation 1
In 755 AD (the fourteenth year of Tianbao by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty), Li Bai came from Qiupu (now Guichi, Anhui) went to Jing County (now part of Anhui) to visit Peach Blossom Pond. The local Wang Lun often made fine wine to entertain him. Before leaving, Wang Lun came to see him off again, and Li Bai wrote this poem to say goodbye. The first half of the poem is a narrative: it first writes about the person who is leaving, and then the person who sees them off, showing a picture of parting. The beginning of the sentence "take a boat" indicates that the person is following the waterway; the phrase "willing to travel" indicates that the boat is about to set off.
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