It's getting late, the birds are flying back to the forest, and there are fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road. Light smoke and fog gradually drifted from the front of the mountain, covering the eaves of firewood and grass, and the dusk was far away and near.
Song Fan Chengda's Miscellaneous Poems of Late Spring Pastoral Poems: The Twelfth.
Original text:
There are few tourists when blackbirds throw themselves into the forest.
The child paddled like a leaf, weaving a duck array and returning alone.
Translation:
It's getting late, birds fly back to the forest, and there are fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road. The misty smoke on the other side of the mountain covers the eaves of firewood. A child is driving a boat that looks like a leaf from a distance. It turned out that he drove the ducks to the shelves on his way home.
Extended data
Creation background
Fan Chengda traveled all over the country in his early years. Retired at the age of 57 and lived in Shihu, Suzhou. During this period, he wrote a group of large-scale pastoral poems called Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellanies. Sixty poems are divided into five groups: spring, late spring, summer, autumn and winter. There are twelve poems in each group, and each group can be called a group of poems, hence the title of "pastoral poet".
The Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellany combines the poetic traditions of Tao Yuanming to Wei, Chu Guangxi, Meng Haoran and Wei, and the poetic traditions of the Book of Songs to the Tang Dynasty, focusing on reflecting the rural social reality, changing the ancient style into seven words, and showing outstanding creativity in content and form.
Poetry describes the rural scenery and farmers' life in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and also reflects the exploitation and suffering suffered by farmers.
In the history of ancient poetry, most of the pastoral poems are actually poems of literati expressing their seclusion. For example, the pastoral scenery in the poems of Wang Wei and Meng Haoran all appeared as the externalization of the poet's quiet mood.
Except for a few Tao poems, farming, the most important content of rural life in ancient pastoral poems, was neglected, and the occasional woodcutter and farmer were often endowed with the character of hermit.
Poets in the Tang Dynasty, such as Yuan Zhen and Zhang Ji, often wrote the peasants' production, life and sufferings into Yuefu poems such as Peasant Ci and Tianjia Ci. There is no description of pastoral scenery in these poems, and they are not used to being idyllic.
Fan Chengda creatively combined the above two traditions and comprehensively and truly described all kinds of details of rural life. Fan Chengda successfully transformed the traditional theme, making pastoral poetry a veritable poem reflecting rural life. Qian Zhongshu called it "the epitome of China's ancient pastoral poetry" in Notes on Selected Poems of Song Dynasty. This kind of poem had a great influence in the late Southern Song Dynasty.
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