Appreciation and Translation of Two Poems of Bai Juyi's "Three Years as a Secretariat"

Two secretariats for three years.

Three years is the secretariat, and there is no politics in the population. Only to cities and counties, more than ten poems.

Ashamed of Gan Tang's singing skills, do you think about people?

Three years for the secretariat, drinking ice and eating Berberis. Only go to Zhushan to get two stones.

It's worth a thousand dollars, and nothing hurts the innocent.

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Three years is the secretariat, and there is no politics in the population.

Only to cities and counties, there are more than a dozen poems.

Shame is not the first thing in Gan Tang. You can't miss people.

Secretariat for three years, drinking ice and eating Berberis.

Only from Tianzhu Mountain, I got two stones.

It's worth a thousand dollars, whether it hurts or not.

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During Bai Juyi's three years as the secretariat of Hangzhou, he built a dike around the lake, eliminating the "six wells" and doing many good things for the people. During his tenure, he remained uncorrupted and lived a hard and simple life. He has a hobby, and likes to enjoy all kinds of grotesque rocks. He once got two ordinary stones from Tianzhu Mountain in Hangzhou. In this poem, Bai Juyi deeply reflected on this matter and even felt that it was detrimental to his innocence. How commendable Bai Juyi's incorruptible quality and self-reproach spirit are!

Brief introduction of the author

Bai Juyi (772-846), Mr. Letian, Mr. Xiangshan Jushi and Mr. Zuiyin, was one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. He was called "Bai Yuan" with Yuan Zhen and "Bai Liu" with Liu Yuxi. Known as the "poet demon" and "poet king".

Advocating the new Yuefu movement with Yuan Zhen * * *, the official is Zuo Zanshan, a bachelor and doctor of Hanlin.

His poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and popular language. 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.