Wang Wei: Reminiscing about Shandong brothers on September 9
duzaiyixiangweiyike, meifengjiajiebeisiqin
I am a stranger in a foreign land, and I miss my relatives more than ever during the holidays.
yaozhixiongdidenggaochu, bianchazhuyushaoyiren
Brother Yaozhi climbed to a high place and planted dogwood trees everywhere.
Wang Wei (701-761), courtesy name Mojie, was a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. He was an official and became Minister Youcheng. He was originally from Qi (now Qixian County, Shanxi) and moved to Puzhou (now Yongji, Shanxi). ), believed in Buddhism, lived in Wangchuan Villa in Lantian in his later years, Han nationality. He is good at painting figures, bamboos, and landscapes. People in the Tang Dynasty recorded two types of landscape features: one is similar to that of Li and his son, and the other is painted with broken ink. His famous work "Wangchuan Picture" is the latter. Unfortunately, no authentic work has been handed down to this day. The "Snowy Stream Picture" and "Jinan Fu Sheng Statue" that are said to be his are not authentic. Su Shi commented that "when you taste Mojie's poems, there are paintings within the poems; when you look at Mojie's paintings, there are poems within the paintings." He was a representative of the landscape pastoral school in the Tang Dynasty. Kaiyuan Jinshi. He served as Dalecheng, Youshiyi and other officials. During the Anlushan rebellion, he was forced to take a pseudo-post. His achievements in poetry and painting were very high. Su Dongpo praised him as "there are paintings in poems and poems in paintings", especially his achievements in landscape poetry. Together with Meng Haoran, he was called "Wang Meng". In his later years, he had no intention of official career and devoted himself to Buddhism. Therefore, Later generations called him the "Poetry Buddha". There is a saying in the world that "Li Bai is a genius, Du Fu is a local talent, and Wang Wei is a talented person". Wang Wei is not only recognized as a poet and Buddha, but also a master of Nanshan literati painting (Qian Zhongshu called him "the number one figure in the painting circle of the prosperous Tang Dynasty"), and he is proficient in music. He is a rare all-rounder.
Wang Wei's poems enjoyed great fame both during his lifetime and in later generations. History says that "his reputation flourished among Kaiyuan and Tianbao. Heroes and nobles greeted him from the left, and kings Ning and Xue treated him like mentors and friends" (the original biography of "New Book of Tang"). Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty once praised him as the "Tianwen Zong" ("Reply to Wang Jinjin and Wang Wei's Collection of Imperial Edicts"). Du Fu also called him "the most beautiful line in the world" (eight of the twelve poems in "Relief from Boredom"). Yin Fan said: "Wei's poems are beautiful and elegant, with new and comfortable meanings. They are pearls in the spring and painted on the wall. Every sentence and every word is out of the ordinary." ("Heyue Yingling Collection") Sikong Tu praised it in the late Tang Dynasty. Its "interest is clear, as clear as clear" ("Reviewing Poems and Books with Wang Jia"). In the past, Wang Wei was praised as the "Buddha of Poetry", and was mentioned together with the "Sage of Poetry" Du Fu and the "Immortal of Poetry" Li Bai. In terms of ideological content, Wang Wei's poetry is far from being compared with Li and Du; but in terms of art, Wang Wei does have his unique achievements and contributions. The poems of Liu Changqing of the Tang Dynasty, the Ten Talents of Dali, and even Yao He, Jia Dao and others were all influenced by Wang Wei to varying degrees. Until the Qing Dynasty, Wang Shi □ praised Shen Yun, and actually regarded his poetry as a cult. But this school of poetry often expresses sentimental scenery and lacks social content.
Translation
Being a guest in a foreign country alone, every time when celebrating the festival, I miss my relatives at home even more. I imagined in a distant foreign land that when my brothers climbed high today, everyone was wearing dogwood, but I was the only one missing.
[Edit this paragraph] Definition
1. September 9: Refers to the Double Ninth Festival on the ninth day of September in the lunar calendar. There are folk customs such as climbing high, planting dogwood, and drinking chrysanthemum wine.
2. Memory: missing.
3. Shandong: refers to the east of Huashan (today’s Shanxi). Wang Wei’s hometown is in this area.
4. Foreign land: a foreign land.
5. Double: double, more.
6. Remote knowledge: Thinking from a distance.
7. Climbing high: On the Double Ninth Festival, which falls on September 9th in the lunar calendar, there is a folk custom of climbing high to avoid evil.
8. Dogwood: Also known as Yuejiao, it is a plant with a strong aroma. It is said that wearing a dogwood bag on the Double Ninth Festival, climbing high and drinking chrysanthemum wine can avoid disasters.