Farewell to the viceroy and go to Shu for his post.
Author: Wang Bo
Across the wall of Sanqin, across a layer of fog, across a river.
We said goodbye sadly, and our two officials went in opposite directions.
After all, the world is just a small place.
Why are you wandering at the fork in the road? The child is holding a towel.
Vernacular translation:
The majestic Chang 'an guards the land of Sanqin and sees Wujin through the clouds.
When I left you, I had infinite affection in my heart, because we were all floating in the sea of officials.
As long as there is your confidant in the world, even if you are far away, you are like a close neighbor.
Never break up at a fork in the road, like a child, sad and wet with tears.
Sending Du to Shu is the work of a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem is to comfort friends not to be sad when they leave. The first pair of couplets depicts the scene and style of parting places and friends' parting places, implying the feeling of parting and strictly confronting each other; Couplets are words of relief, pointing out the inevitability of parting, inheriting with scattered sounds, turning reality into emptiness, ups and downs of literature and feelings; The sudden peak of the neck joint highly summarizes the scene of "deep friendship, which sublimates friendship to a higher aesthetic realm"; The couplet points out the theme of "seeing off" and continues to encourage and remind friends, which is also an emotional confession. The beginning and end of this poem are depressing, with flowing atmosphere and broad-minded artistic conception. It is an unparalleled classic in farewell poems. The whole poem is only forty words, but it is full of changes, as if on a small picture scroll, it contains countless mountains and valleys, with endless scenery, which has been widely circulated so far.
Wang Bo (about 650-676), Zi An, Han nationality, was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Longmen, Gujiang County (now Hejin, Shanxi Province) was born in a Confucian family, and together with Yang Jiong, Lu and Luo, he was called "four outstanding men in the early Tang Dynasty", thinking that he was the first. Wang Bo was smart and studious since he was a child. According to Old Tang Book, he was able to write articles at the age of six, and he was known as a "child prodigy". At the age of nine, I read Yan Shigu's Notes on Hanshu and wrote ten volumes of Finger Defects to correct my mistakes. At the age of sixteen, he was appointed Saburo at the request of Su You Branch. He was kicked out of Pei Wang Fu for "cockfighting". After that, Wang Bo spent three years traveling in Bashu mountains and rivers and wrote a lot of poems. After returning to Chang 'an, he asked Zhou Guo to join the army. When he joined the army, he was demoted twice for killing government slaves privately. In August of the 3rd year of Shang Dynasty (676), Tang Gaozong returned from visiting his father and drowned across the sea. Wang Bo is good at five laws and five sentences in poetry genre. His masterpiece is "Farewell to the Deputy viceroy to take up his post in Shu", and his main literary achievement is parallel prose, which is the best in quantity and quality. His representative works include Preface to Wang Teng Pavilion.