original text
Zaofa baidicheng
Early in the morning, I bid farewell to Jiangling city, which is high into the sky, thousands of miles away, and the boat is only one day away.
The cries of apes on both sides of the strait are still unconsciously crowing in their ears, and the canoe has passed the heavy green hills.
translate
In the morning, I bid farewell to the towering Baidicheng; Jiangling is thousands of miles away, just a day's voyage.
Apes on both sides of the strait are still crying in their ears; Unconsciously, the canoe has passed ten thousand mountains.
Writing background
In the spring of the second year of Gan Yuan, Tang Suzong (759), Li Bai was exiled to Yelang because of the Li Lin case in Wang Yong, and went to a relegated place via Sichuan. When I went to Baidi City, I suddenly received the news of pardon, and I was pleasantly surprised. Then I went to Jiangling by boat. This poem was written when the ship returned to Jiangling, so it is called Xiajiangling. Predecessors once thought that this poem was Li Bai's youth work when he left Sichuan. However, according to the poem "A thousand miles in a day in Jiangling", Li Bai went to the Three Gorges from Jiangling, so this poem should have been written when he came back.
Brief introduction of the author
Li Bai (70 1 ~ 762), whose name is Taibai, is a violet layman. He is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. He has the reputation of "poetic immortal" and is also called "Du Li" with Du Fu. His poems are mainly lyrical, showing the arrogant spirit of contempt for powerful people, expressing sympathy for people's sufferings, being good at depicting natural scenery and expressing his love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland. The poetic style is magnificent and bold, the imagination is rich, the language flows naturally, the melody is harmonious and changeable, and it is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature and myths and legends, which constitutes its unique magnificent and gorgeous color and reaches the peak of poetic art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are more than 1000 poems, including 30 volumes of Li Taibai's Collection.
works appreciation
The whole poem gives people a feeling of straightforwardness and ethereal. But we can't fully understand the whole poem only by looking at the bold momentum and elegant brushwork. The whole poem is permeated with a kind of passion produced by hardships, so there is pride and joy in grandeur and swiftness. The pleasure of the clippers left a broad imagination space for readers. In order to express this carefree mood, the poet also deliberately uses the rhymes of "emptiness", "return" and "mountain", which makes the whole poem particularly melodious, light and long.