"Two orioles sing green willows, and egrets cover the sky."
My window framed the snow-covered western hills. My door often says "goodbye" to ships sailing eastward.
Source: Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, composed the poem "Four quatrains" Part III.
Explanation:
Oriole: oriole, the song is sweet.
Egret: Egret, with white feathers, can fly very high.
Window lattice: It means that in Xiling, looking out from the window, it seems to be embedded in the window frame, so it is called window lattice. Xiling: Minshan Mountain in the southwest of Chengdu, where the snow does not melt all the year round, so there is snow for thousands of years. This is an imaginary world.
Soochow: refers to the Jiangsu area in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Chengdu waterway leads to the Yangtze River, so it is the cloud of Wu Dong Wan Li ship.
Two orioles are singing among the green willows, and a row of egrets are flying in the blue sky. The scenery of Xiling Snow Mountain seems to be embedded in the window, and ships coming and going to Soochow are parked by the door.
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Creative background:
This group of poems was written in the spring of 764, the second year of Guangde, Tang Daizong. In the first year of Baoying, Tang Suzong (762), Chengdu Yin entered the DPRK, and turmoil occurred in Shu. Du Fu once avoided Zizhou (treating Santai in Sichuan).
In the second year, the Anshi Rebellion was put down. A year later, Yanwu returned to Chengdu and went to Shu again. Du Fu learned the news of this old friend and followed him back to Chengdu Caotang. At this time, Du Fu's mood was particularly comfortable. Faced with a vibrant scene, he couldn't help writing this group of impromptu poems.
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