[Tang] He
Young people leave home, old people return, and the local accent has not changed.
When children meet strangers, they will smile and ask where the guests are from.
I have been away from my hometown for many years, and I have been half-dead recently.
Only in front of Jinghu Lake, the spring breeze does not change the waves of the past.
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I left my hometown when I was young and didn't come back until my twilight years. Although my local accent hasn't changed, my hair on my sideburns has become sparse.
None of the children knew me when they saw me. They asked with a smile, where did this guest come from?
After leaving my hometown for many years, I feel that the personnel in my hometown have changed too much.
Only the clear water of Jinghu Lake rippling under the spring breeze in front of the door remains the same.
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Couplet: A poem written by accident. Even: it shows that this poem was written by accident, and it was written at any time when something was seen and felt.
He is a 37-year-old scholar who left his hometown before that. Boss: Old. He Zhangzhi was over eighty years old when he returned to China.
Local accent: the accent of my hometown. No change: there is no change. One is "hard to change." Bones: Hair on the forehead near the ear. One is "face hair". Decline: decrease, sparse. Decline of sideburns: refers to the decrease and thinning of sideburns.
Meet: see me immediately; Xiang: Adverb with reference. Stranger: You don't know me.
Smile and ask: one is "don't ask" and the other is "excuse me".
Fade away: To fade away or disappear gradually.
Jinghu Lake: More than 300 miles away from Fiona Fang, at the northern foot of Huiji Mountain in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. He's hometown is near Jinghu Lake.
Author He (659-744), whose real name is Ji Zhen, was born in Yongxing, Tang Yue (now Shaoxing) and Xiaoshan, Zhejiang. He's poems are famous for quatrains. In addition to the movement of offering sacrifices to the gods and the poems he should write, his writing style is unique, fresh and chic, and his famous poems include "Singing Willow" and "Returning Home".