The whole poem about a white mandarin duck flying without its companion:
From "Partridge Sky: Everything Is Bad After Passing the Changmen" written by He Zhu in the Song Dynasty.
The original text of the poem is:
Everything will go wrong if you go through the gate again. We came together and returned home differently. After the parasol trees were half dead and the frost cleared, the white-headed mandarin ducks flew away without their companions.
The grass on the plains shows the first signs of sunshine. The old habitat and the new ridge are both close to each other. Lying on an empty bed listening to the rain outside the south window, who will stay up late at night to mend clothes?
The dewdrops on the young leaves of the green grass in the wilderness have just been dried in the sun. I lingered in the old room where I lived together, and in the new grave on the ridge. Lying on the empty bed, listening to the miserable wind and rain outside the window, who will stay up late at night to sew for me from now on?
The dewdrops on the young leaves of the green grass in the wilderness have just been dried in the sun. I lingered in the old room where I lived together, and in the new grave on the ridge. Lying on the empty bed, listening to the miserable wind and rain outside the window, who will stay up late at night to sew for me from now on?
Appreciation:
"The sycamore tree is half dead, and after the clear frost, the white-headed mandarin duck flies without its companion." Borrowing allusions, the half-dead phoenix tree and the missing mandarin duck are used to describe one's fate in the year of knowing one's destiny. The pain and loneliness of becoming a widower are beyond words. The word "Qingshuang" refers to the withering of the sycamore branches and the lack of business after the frost in autumn, which is a metaphor for the old age after the death of his wife.
The word "Toubai" is a pun, as the mandarin duck has white hair on its head (Li Shangyin's "Stone City": "The mandarin duck has two white heads."), and the poet was already in his fifties at this time, and he was also in his prime. The age when a head full of black hair gradually turns into snow. These two sentences vividly depict the author's loneliness and desolation.