Notes on Jiangnan Memory:
Don's name.
Familiarity (ān): Familiarity. The author has been to Jiangnan three times when he was young.
Jianghua: Flowers by the river. I am talking about the waves in the river.
Red is better than flame: bright red is better than flame.
Green as blue: Green is greener than blue. For example, the usage is still "Yu", which means more than. Blue and blue grasses, whose leaves can be used to make blue-green dyes.
Translate "Recalling Jiangnan";
How beautiful the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is. I have been familiar with it for a long time.
The sun rises from the river, making the flowers on the river brighter than red, and the green river is greener than the blue grass. How can one not miss Jiangnan?
The original text of "Recalling Jiangnan":
Jiangnan memory
Author Bai Juyi
the Tang Dynasty
The scenery in Jiangnan is very beautiful, and the picturesque scenery has long been familiar.
When spring comes, the sun rises from the river, the flowers on the river are brighter than red, and the green river is greener than the blue grass. How can we make people not miss Jiangnan?
Creative background:
Bai Juyi roamed Jiangnan in his youth, lived in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and had a good understanding of Jiangnan. He served as the secretariat of Hangzhou and Suzhou successively, so Jiangnan left a deep impression in his mind. He later settled in Luoyang and missed the old tour in Jiangnan, so he created "Recalling Jiangnan".
Bai Juyi was born in Xiayi (now Weinan, Shaanxi). In the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan, he was a scholar, and successively served as Zuo Shiyi, Doctor Zanshan in the East Palace, Sima in Jiangzhou, Secretariat of Suzhou in Hangzhou and Taifu.
Bai Juyi is a great realistic poet. His poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and simple and popular language. His "Qin Zhongyin and New Yuefu" dares to face the abuses of those in power, reflects people's sufferings and profoundly exposes social contradictions. He was also the main advocate of the new Yuefu movement in the middle Tang Dynasty.
Bai Juyi's narrative poems such as Song of Eternal Sorrow and Pipa Journey are exquisite, vivid and touching, with unique artistic style and extremely wide influence. In the theory of poetry creation, he put forward the views that "articles should be written in time" and "poems should be written for things". There are more than 3,000 existing poems, which are composed of Bai Changqing Collection.