original text
I comb my hair and white hair to add new hatred, and you sweep the worm to reduce the old face.
It should be strange and melancholy to be next to others, and teenagers will meet each other when they leave.
Vernacular translation
At this time, the poet has added white hair and new worries, and Xiangling has also decayed her old capacity.
Two people must have mixed feelings, and it is estimated that the people next to them can't stand it. It should be "inexplicable disappointment". Others can't understand it because they were so loving when they were young. How can they not be ecstatic when they meet again after falling into the world?
works appreciation
"I comb my white hair to add new hatred, and you sweep the worm to reduce the old face." The poet is already white-haired, and Xiangling has faded from her old look. See you again, how can you make people sigh! This sentence describes the poet's melancholy mood. Time flies, people are old and people are no longer young.
"It is normal to be accused and disappointed, and young people will encounter it when they leave their old age." Over time, life is easy to get old. Four seasons like lightning Shi Huo, how to teach temples not to frost? On the surface, this sentence describes the feeling of melancholy after two people meet, but it is actually a feeling of falling in love when they are young. It was so beautiful at that time. It's awkward to meet now, but I'm old. Although he is old, he is still ecstatic when he meets his old friend, expressing the poet's mentality of meeting his old friend and his yearning for beautiful things.
This poem is different from the general feeling of lamenting old age, because the poet does not complain about the fleeting time, does not teach people to escape alcohol, and makes people treat life correctly with the principle of nature, which is very philosophical.
Brief introduction of the author
Bai Juyi (772-846) was born in Xinzheng, Henan, and his ancestral home was Taiyuan, Shanxi. Bai Juyi is a great realistic poet and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu".
Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets". Official to Prince Shaofu, minister of punishments, Hou of Fengyi County. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.
The author's life
Bai Juyi was born in the first month of the seventh year of Tang Daizong Dali (772) in Xinzheng, Henan Province, a small and medium-sized bureaucratic family. Shortly after Bai Juyi was born, a war broke out in his hometown. Li Fanzhen is divided into more than ten states in Henan, and the people have suffered from war. When Bai Juyi was two years old, Ren Gongxian's grandfather died in Chang 'an, followed by his grandmother. Bai Juyi's father, Bai, was first taught by Songzhou Division (780), a magistrate in Pengcheng County, Xuzhou. A year later, Bai and Li Yan, the secretariat of Xuzhou, insisted on Xuzhou's meritorious service and were promoted to Xuzhou special driving. In order to avoid the war in Xuzhou, he sent his family to Suzhou for a peaceful life. Bai Juyi was able to spend his childhood in Suzhou R&F. [7] Bai Juyi is brilliant and studies very hard. After reading it, his mouth was sour and his hands were covered with calluses. Young, all white hair.