The title means "since the Henan war, the grain transportation in Guanzhong area has been blocked, leading to famine, and our brothers have been displaced and separated, all in one place." Because I saw the moon, I wrote a poem to record my feelings, and gave it to the eldest brother on the floating beam, the seventh brother on the dive and the fifteenth brother on the Wujiang River, as well as to the brothers and sisters of Liv and Xiayi.
The original poem is:
The family business is in a year of disaster, and the brothers are scattered.
After the war, the countryside was deserted and the flesh and blood fled to a foreign land.
The injured shadow is like a lonely wild goose, wandering like a broken-rooted autumn canopy.
* * * Looking at the bright moon and crying, it is a red heart, five places, all sick and willing.
It means:
The world is difficult, the war is chaotic, and the family business is empty;
Brothers wander in different places, each in the west and each in the east.
After the war, it was deserted everywhere, and the countryside was deserted;
The flesh and blood are separated and wandering, and the two places are separated.
Lonely geese are thousands of miles apart and inseparable;
Brothers with the same roots go with the wind, just like the canopy in autumn.
The ends of the earth * * * see the bright moon, all tears;
Homesickness tonight, you and I are United, and the five places are the same.
The background is:
Written in the autumn of 800 AD (the 16th year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong). At that time, the poet went to Fuli (Suzhou City, Anhui Province), and there was a poem "After the chaos, Liugou Temple" in Fuli. The "brothers and sisters" mentioned in the title may be separated from the poet himself, so there are five places altogether. In the spring of 799 AD (the 15th year of Zhenyuan), the time of Xuanwu made Dong Jin's men rebel after his death, and then Wu Shaocheng rebelled in China, Guangxi and Cai. The Tang court sent sixteen military forces to attack, and the war took place in Henan. At that time, the southern water transport mainly passed through Henan Pass. Because of the "chaos in Henan", the "hunger in Guanzhong" was achieved. Full of poetry, I miss your brothers and sisters after writing the mess.