Xue Daoheng (540-609), also known as Xuanqing. A native of Fenyin, Hedong (now Wanrong County, Shanxi). Sui Dynasty poet.
◆ People miss home every day ◆
Xue Daoheng
It has only been seven days since spring, and it has been two years since I left home.
When people return home after the wild geese, their thoughts are in front of the flowers.
Appreciation
Ren's Day, which is the seventh day of the first lunar month, is a very important festival in ancient customs. As the saying goes, "I miss my family even more during the festive season", Japan should be a day to reunite with family and play with relatives and friends, but now the poet is far away in a foreign land, which naturally triggers a deep longing for his family and hometown.
In the first couplet of the poem, "seven days" and "two years" are used to compare. "Seven days" is the feeling of the current time. Taking Yuan day as the starting point, seven days have just passed. People are in What I feel in these seven days is the joy of the coming of spring and the festive atmosphere; "two years" is the feeling of the past time, starting from the day I left home, and it has been two years now. From the day I left home, I feel that The longing for home began. Compared with the "seven days", the "two years" seemed particularly long. The words "cai" and "has" deepen this contrast and make the feeling of homesickness emerge.
The second couplet of the poem actually contains three contrasts. The first one is the comparison with the wild geese. The wild geese return north every spring, but the poet cannot help himself. He is also in the south and does not know when he can return to his hometown in the north. The second is the contrast with the blooming of flowers. When spring comes, flowers will bloom, but my longing for home has already arisen. The first contrast highlights the lateness of my return home, and the second contrast highlights my eagerness to return home. The two words "after" and "before" contrast the lateness of returning home with the intense feeling of missing home, making the two more distinct and highlighting the main theme of the poem.