"Above, he looked for the green void, below, the yellow spring, but in both places, he couldn't find the one he was looking for." From the Song of Eternal Sorrow by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, this sentence means: driving clouds into the air, flying like lightning, ascending to heaven and searching for heaven and hell, all without results.
Poetry information
Song of Eternal Sorrow is a long narrative poem by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The whole poem vividly describes the love tragedy between Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei. With the help of historical figures and legends, poets have created touching stories and reproduced the truth of real life through their own artistic images, which have infected readers for thousands of years. The theme of this poem is "Song of Eternal Sorrow". This poem has had a far-reaching influence on many literary works in later generations.