Climb the Phoenix Terrace in Nanjing?
Tang: Li Bai
There used to be a phoenix on the phoenix platform, and the phoenix went to Taiwan, only Jiangdong returned. (first copy)
Martial arts flowers were laid on deserted paths, and the number of relatives and friends in the Jin Dynasty has become a famine. (link)
The mountains are shrouded in clouds, such as blue sky, and the river is divided into two. (Neck chain)
There is always a traitor in power, like covering the sky, and Chang' an is depressed when he can't see it. (Tail connection)
Translation:
There used to be a phoenix swimming on the Phoenix platform, but only when Phoenix went to Taiwan Province, the river was still flowing eastward.
The flowers and plants in the palace of Wu are buried in deserted paths, and many royal families in the Jin Dynasty have become abandoned tombs and ancient hills.
The fog of the three mountains is looming, like falling into the sky, and the river is divided into two by Bailuzhou.
There are always treacherous court officials in power, but Chang 'an can't see the depression in his heart.
Related content explanation:
The upper and lower sentences of every metrical poem are antithetical sentences, and the first couplet and the last couplet can be right or wrong.
The first characteristic of duality is that syntax should be the same. For example, the first sentence of the first couplet of One Night Abroad has no predicate, and the second sentence is relatively meaningless. The sentence pattern of the upper sentence of the couplet is "subject-predicate-object", and so is the next sentence. The neck couplet uses the same sentence pattern.
The second characteristic of duality is that you can't use the same words to oppose each other. The antithesis like "people have joys and sorrows, and the moon has ups and downs" is allowed in lyrics and songs, but never allowed in modern poetry. In fact, unless it is necessary for rhetoric, the same words must be avoided in modern poetry.
The third characteristic of duality is that parts of speech should be relative, that is, noun to noun, verb to verb, adjective to adjective, adverb to adverb, pronoun to pronoun, function word to function word.