làng táo shā·jiu qǔ huáng hé wàn lǐi shā
Langtaosha·Jiuqu Yellow River Ten Thousand Miles of Sand
cháo dài: táng dài
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty
zuò zhě: liú yu xī
Author: Liu Yuxi
jiu qu huáng hé wàn li shā, làng táo fēng boǒ zì tiān yá.
The Yellow River has thousands of miles of sand, and the waves and winds are blowing from the end of the world.
rú jīn zhí shàng yín hé qù，tóng dào qiān niú zhī nv jiā.
Now we go straight up the Milky Way to the home of the Morning Glory and the Weaver Girl.
Notes:
1: Langtaosha: the name of a kind of song in the Tang Dynasty.
2: Waves and winds: The Yellow River rolls with sand and wind and waves. Tianya: the horizon.
3: Milky Way: The ancients thought that the Yellow River and the Milky Way were connected.
4: Morning Bull: The legendary Cowherd. Because he and Weaver Girl offended the Emperor of Heaven, they were separated on both sides of the Milky Way. They were only allowed to meet once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
Today's translation:
The Yellow River winds and carries sand and sand,
The waves roll like huge winds and come from the end of the world.
Now we can go straight up to the Milky Way along the Yellow River.
Let’s go together to find the home of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
Liu Yuxi (772-842), courtesy name Mengde, was of Han nationality and was a native of Luoyang (now Luoyang, Henan) in the Tang Dynasty of China. He claimed that he was "originally in Xingshang, and his native place was in Luoyang" and that he was from Zhongshan (today's Dingzhou, Hebei). He was preceded by Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan, and in his later years he called himself a native of Lushan. Liu Yuxi became a Jinshi in the ninth year of Zhenyuan (793). At the beginning, he served as the record office in the shogunate of Du You, the governor of Huainan, and was highly regarded by Du You. Later, he entered the court from Du You and became the censor. At the end of Zhenyuan, Liu Zongyuan, Chen Jian, Han Ye and others made friends with Wang Shuwen and formed a political group headed by Wang Shuwen. Later he served as the Sima of Langzhou, the governor of Lianzhou, the governor of Kuizhou, the governor of Hezhou, the chief guest doctor, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, and the governor of Suzhou. Liu Yuxi's last term was the guest of the prince, so the collection of poems and essays titled "Liu Guest Collection" was written by later generations.
Bai Juyi praised him as "Liu Mengde from Pengcheng, a great poet", so Liu Yuxi was also known as the "poetry hero" in the Mid-Tang Dynasty. He was an outstanding politician, philosopher, poet and prose writer in the Mid-Tang Dynasty. Home. Liu Yuxi and Bai Juyi are both called "Liu Bai". Together with Liu Zongyuan, he is also known as "Liu Liu". Liu Mengde from Pengcheng is also a great poet. It has a sharp edge, and few dare to take it. It is also said that his poems should be protected by divine objects everywhere, and he is highly respected by celebrities. In Huichang, the school's Minister of Etiquette was inspected. When he died at the age of seventy, he presented it to the Minister of Hubu. The poetry collection consists of eighteen volumes, now compiled into twelve volumes.