The Significance of Li Shangyin's Tanabata Poems

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Tanabata Tang Dynasty: Li Shangyin

The phoenix fan is tilted, and the star bridge flies back across the magpie. ?

Strive to bid farewell to this world forever, in exchange for the arrival of every year.

Looking up at the sky on the evening of July 7, I remembered the beautiful scene where the cowherd and the weaver girl met in the sky: the weaver girl had crossed the river, walked out of the phoenix and met the cowherd through the fan;

After completing the task of filling the river and paving the road, all the black magpies retreated. At this time, I can't help but think of the early death of my beloved wife, and I will never see her again. At this time, I am extremely eager to see my dead wife once a year, just like the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Creative background: On July 7th, Cowherd and Weaver Girl met. This legendary and beautiful love story has been recited by poets of all ages, and lonely people are ecstatic.

About 77 years old (853), on the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the poet looked up at the sky and thought of the reunion of the cow and the girl. He couldn't help thinking of his beloved wife's early death, so he wrote this poem to mourn her.